We’re in the final days of 2015 and with that being the case, this is our last newsletter of the year. As the year comes to an end we cannot help but think back on all of our work and how much it has helped not only the game players […]
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It might be “Winter Break” for schools, but at 7 Generation Games we’re keeping as busy as ever. As part of those efforts, our president, AnnMaria De Mars, headed out to St. Louis to meet up with members of our 7 Generation Games remote team as well as some fans […]
7 Generation Games Traveling Road Show Hits St. Louis
At 7 Generation Games, we’re making games that make you smarter. But there’s one time of year that we’re all about being dumb — and that’s on Christmas Day as we have a family tradition of holding the “Dumbest Christmas Present Contest.” The contest, just as the name suggests, is […]
The Annual Dumbest Christmas Present Contest: Presented By 7 Generation ...
Merry Christmas! We here at 7 Generation Games hope that everyone is having a safe and joyous holiday with their family and friends. Now that the presents are unwrapped and the kids are enjoying their new toys and gadgets, the last thing on anyone’s mind is schoolwork. Winter break usually […]
Freebie Friday: Keep Learning Over Winter Break With Our Free ...
Going through our archives, we came across this great post from November 12, 2013 “At the End of the Day…There’s Another Day” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. For the thousandth time, I stopped today and thought, “Wow! I have a great life!” When […]
Throwback Thursday: At The End of the Day…There’s Another Day
Are you a Ronda Rousey fan? Well, then, there are five reasons you might want to get a game this week. Anyone who purchases a game in December will get a free license for the beta version of Forgotten Trail thrown in as a bonus. Ronda makes a cameo appearance […]
5 Reasons Ronda Rousey Fans (and others) want Fish Lake
1 Happy “May The Force Be With You” Freebie Friday! Theaters and malls will be packed this weekend, with people either rushing to see the new Star Wars movie and/or finishing up their holiday shopping. Before you get sucked into that madness, ease your way into the weekend by learning how […]
Freebie Friday: Learning Dakota Vocabulary
1 At the Ed Games Expo last week, one of the attendees who stopped by to see our games was asking me about the impact our SBIR award had on 7 Generation Games. (SBIR stands for Small Business Innovation and Research and are grants given by various federal agencies to support […]
Startups Take Money: How SBIR Funding Helped Make 7 Generation ...
1 Going through our archives, we came across this great post from August 11, 2013 “Don’t Tell Me I Can’t: From World Judo Champion to Start-Up Grandmother” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I was asked to write a chapter for the book, Real Talk, […]
Throwback Thursday: Don’t Tell Me I Can’t – From World ...
We had our weekly game developers’ meeting yesterday and were extremely lucky to have a stellar cast of visitors drop in; best-selling author Derek Landy, star programmer Dave Taylor and our favorite Pokemon moderator of all time, Ronda Rousey. Prior to the meeting, our marketing staff had requested, “Since this […]
It’s an Early Adopter Discount, Not a Late Majority Discount
Annie Hammond offers insight from an educator’s perspective on educational gaming. I recently saw a cartoon on social media that read, “I used to tell people I was a teacher. Now I prefer the title Data Collection and Management Specialist. It’s much more accurate.” This could not be closer to […]
A Teacher’s Point of View: That’s Mrs. Data Collection and ...
A few months back, we got an invite to participate in the Department of Education’s Ed Games Expo. (Thanks to USDA for putting us in touch with the expo’s organizers!) The event brings together educational games from across the country that were funded by Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) […]