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Front page of Spirit Lake — Our latest version of “Spirit Lake: The Game” is now available — and better than ever we might add. As your computers and smartphones are constantly reminding you, every software product — from Microsoft Office to Candy Crush — is constantly issuing updates. There are the little ones that patch […]

Welcome to “Spirit Lake: The Game” Version 4.0!

November 7, 2014 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

Congratulations, you’ve survived another week! And for that, we think that you deserve something special for all of your hard work. This is why 7 Generation Games wants to give you a gift for #FreebieFriday. Did you know 7 Generation Games has a YouTube channel with a ton of great […]

Freebie Friday: Check Out Our Culture Videos

November 7, 2014 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged Freebie Friday / Knowledge is Power / Native American culture by admin

7 Generation Games — When planning your sound design, deciding which sounds should be included in the game is often the most important place to start. This is especially true of small or simple games, particularly those with low budgets. It can be easy to get carried away with sound ideas, but it’s very important […]

Sound FX Basics: Where to Start

November 5, 2014 in 7GenGames tagged 7 Generation Games / sound by eric

Earlier this month I attended a Tech Coast Venture Network event on Crowfunding that was hosted by Howard Leonhardt. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this event, but I figured it couldn’t hurt to go listen to some pointers from someone who has raised over $145 million to crowdfund new inventions and startups […]

How to Succeed at Reaching Your Crowdfunding Goal

October 31, 2014 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech tagged crowdfunding / entrepreneur / Lenard Leonhardt / successful businesses by admin

Tasina - 7 Generation Games — The problem with a start-up is you don’t have defined tasks, defined hours, defined anything really. For the past three days, I have been working on every single page of Spirit Lake: The Game, trying to improve every piece of the game, large and small. I added in the multiplication […]

How much is enough? When is a game ‘good enough’ ...

October 30, 2014 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Graph explaining Buffalo herd statistics — One exciting aspect of interning for 7 Generation Games is being able to collaborate with the members of the 7 Generation Games team. As a result of the guidance from AnnMaria, Maria, and Jessica, I have been able to work on informative, yet engaging resources for teachers and students. My […]

Applied Math – Using math in our daily lives

October 29, 2014 in 7GenGames tagged 7 Generation Games / 7GenerationGames / blog / Fish Lake / Intern / Math / Math Game / Native American History by AnnMaria De Mars

Girl aking the first path — Adding lighting systems to your game in the Unity editor is as simple as adding objects to the scene. You can create different types of light sources from the GameObject menu. The different types essentially emulate common real-world light sources such as the sun, light bulbs, and headlights. Of course […]

Lighting Up Your World

October 28, 2014 in 7GenGames tagged 7 Generation Games / Fish Lake / Unity by eric

7 Generation Games Blog — It seems like nowadays everything costs money. You want to go to an ATM and withdraw your own money? Chances are you’re going to have to pay a fee. You want to purchase a plane ticket to go on a family vacation? Chances are you’re going to have to pay […]

Freebie Friday: The Best Things in Life Are Free

October 24, 2014 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Freebie Friday / Math tagged Adding Fractions / Freebie Friday by admin

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from November 25, 2012 on “The Benefits of Growing Your Own: The view from the code monkey cage” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. Last week, I wrote about my […]

Throwback Thursday: The view from the code monkey cage

October 23, 2014 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress / Throwback Thursday by AnnMaria De Mars

Fish Lake the game is not a small project and neither is Spirit Lake. The amount of work done on the game is amazing especially since there were only two developers working on it. Now that there are more people working on the game, collaborating on the project can get […]

Working With Git

October 22, 2014 in 7GenGames tagged 7 Generation Games / 7GenerationGames / blog / coding / Intern / Internship / productivity by Gonzalo

Two senior members of our team traveled to Anchorage, Alaska, last week to represent 7 Generation Games at the National Indian Education Association’s annual convention and trade show. The event brings together Native American educators as well as educators working with the Native American community. It was 7 Generation Games’ […]

7 Generation Games at NIEA 2014

October 20, 2014 in 7GenGames / Events by Maria Burns Ortiz

dog — Interesting that @x4GY has only tweeted 20 times and yet I found one of those tweets very much worth quoting. “It may not be possible to be 100% better than your competition but you can be 1% better in 100 ways.” Even though I am pretty darn far from Gen […]

100 Improvements and a multiplication dog

October 18, 2014 in AnnMaria / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars