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Did you back Forgotten Trail on Kickstarter? Your rewards are coming! Last week we began mailing out rewards to our Kickstarter backers. The autographed photo of our real life game models (Ronda Rousey, Julia De Mars and Sophie “the dog”) was mailed to all of our Kickstarter backers who pledged $100 […]

Did you back us on Kickstarter? Your rewards are coming!

May 26, 2015 in 7GenGames tagged Kickstarter / rewards by admin

Invisible barriers - zoomed out view — Whenever I get irritated by a company’s failure to consider it’s customers, I try to take a lesson from it. For example, I can’t stand software that nags you to download an update every freaking day. Seriously, is your product so bad that I really need to stop what I’m […]

Little Things Add Up

May 19, 2015 in Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

2 dogs and a play more button — It’s well-known around here at 7 Generation Games that the first 10-20% of a project is going to take you 40% of the time. Progress is slow while you figure out how to do some task, but once you have that code written, you can reuse it many places. Here […]

Step by Step Guide to Making a Mini-Game: Step 1 ...

May 15, 2015 in AnnMaria / Dog food / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

A colleague of mine had this warning sign in her office of the dangers of trying to do too many projects at once: Jugglers don’t get paid very well and sometimes balls hit them in the head. Currently, we have two games on the market and are determined that VERY […]

Jugglers get hit in the head: Lessons for Forgotten Trail

May 13, 2015 in 7GenGames by AnnMaria De Mars

Woman on rocks in the river — Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to star in a commercial? How much fun would it be to show your family and friends a professionally edited commercial that features none other than YOU? Are you interested yet? If so, read on! This June we are going to release a […]

We want YOU to star in the next 7 Generation ...

May 4, 2015 in 7GenGames tagged commercial / Fish Lake / Spirit Lake by admin

I went into the Community Wellness Forum at United American Indian Involvement in Los Angeles last week uncertain of what to expect. I didn’t know how many people would be attending the session I would lead. I knew many of the event attendees worked in public health, but I didn’t […]

What Happens Is What Is Supposed to Happen: What I ...

May 4, 2015 in 7GenGames / Events / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech by Maria Burns Ortiz

classroom — Did you know that we are able to offer free game licenses to classrooms in Title I schools, tribal schools, or after school programs that serve Native American students? If you know a teacher or school that could benefit from playing our adventure games, simply email us at: info@7generationgames.com A little […]

Do you know any schools, teachers or after school programs ...

April 29, 2015 in 7GenGames / Educational Games tagged donate a game / Fish Lake / Spirit Lake / Title I School by admin

Two of 7 Generation Games founders – our CEO AnnMaria De Mars and our CMO Maria Burns Ortiz – have have spent the last two days in Dallas at the Online Learning Consortium’s International Symposium on Emerging Technologies. It’s been a great experience as 7 Generation Games was one of […]

7 Generation Games Recognized at Emerging Technologies for Online Learning ...

April 23, 2015 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech by Maria Burns Ortiz

7 Generation Games is excited to be attending the 8th Annual OLC/MERLOT Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium on April 22-24, 2015 at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas. Earlier this year, 7 Generation Games submitted their application to be apart of the Launch Pad where only 10 educational technology companies […]

Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium

April 23, 2015 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Events / Women in Tech tagged #et4online / 8th Annual OLC/MERLOT Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium / Launch Pad by admin

7 Generation Games — If this is your first visit to our website, thank you for taking the time to read our blog and let us introduce ourselves. We are a company that combines math, Native American history and adventure gaming into our video games. The video clip below demonstrates the (awesome) video games that […]

How 7 Generation Games differs from other companies

April 23, 2015 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Math / Women in Tech by admin

After a hectic three weeks, we completed a successful crowdfunding campaign! We brought in almost 110% of our target of $50,000. After so much hard work, it was time to celebrate as our staff and backers got together at Tom’s Urban at LA Live. If you want to relive the […]

7 Generation Games Celebrates Kickstarter Success

April 18, 2015 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from January 21, 2013,“Things I’ve Learned in (Almost) 55 Years: Post 1 of a bunch” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. I forgot how old I was for a while. Someone […]

Throwback Thursday: Things I’ve Learned in (Almost) 55 Years: Post ...

April 16, 2015 in 7GenGames / Throwback Thursday tagged failure / permanent / perspective / Success / tact / Throwback Thursday by AnnMaria De Mars