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I was at an awesome networking event on Monday night put on by Pay It Forward Labs. As we were waiting to speak to some of the expert mentors on hand (I spoke with Amplify.LA’s incredibly awesome, helpful and insightful Richard Wolpert), the guy next to me likened the whole experience […]

Networks in the Off-Line Sense

October 1, 2014 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

7GenBanner — Everyone loves playing video games, but not everyone knows what it takes to participate in the creation of one. There is so much testing that goes into creating something that has a really good flow from one point to the next. There are a lot of little things that could […]

Adventure Gaming: Find the bugs and eliminate

September 27, 2014 in 7GenGames tagged 7 Generation Games / Adventure Gaming / Game Testing / Internship by Gonzalo

7 Generation Games — We are currently in the process of converting level 3 of Fish Lake from 2D click-based to a 3D scavenger hunt. This process is made relatively simple using the Unity editor. Because we already have 3D assets for the environment and our main character, it is largely a matter of […]

Working in the Unity Editor

September 25, 2014 in 7GenGames / Game Progress tagged 7 Generation Games / Fish Lake / Unity by eric

On my first official day of the internship, I was able to try out the Spirit Lake free demo. (You can download it HERE) As part of the internship, I am responsible for the testing the user experience of the games offered by 7 Generation Games. Not only do I […]

Day 1: Spirit Lake Demo

September 23, 2014 in 7GenGames tagged 7GenerationGames / blog / Intern / Math / Native American History / Spirit Lake by AnnMaria De Mars

Welcome to a revolution in educational video gaming! 7 Generation Games makes games incorporating math, Native American history and adventure gaming. Our products are currently used in more than 20 schools and after-school programs. We believe in educating through engaging. Spirit Lake: The Game is commercially available. Our second game, […]

Welcome to a revolution in educational video gaming!

September 19, 2014 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games tagged Adventure Gaming / Fish Lake / Math / Native American History by admin

No matter how hard it looks to make an educational adventure game, it’s even harder than that. The last couple of weeks, I have been at the tiny detail level. You know those really cool things you see made of legos in Legoland? Imagine if you were making one of […]

Building a game one lego at a time

September 13, 2014 in 7GenGames / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

7 Generation Games Blog — Now that our blogging intern, Diana J, has left us and gone back to school, Marisol Castillo Schultz, our Senior Research Associate will be taking a turn filling in on the blogosphere. Although our current games are focused on Native American culture, Marisol has been advocating for a while now […]

Why a math game for ESL students is a great ...

September 9, 2014 in 7GenGames / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Deer Scales — This post is neither about weighing deer nor a newly discovered species of deer-fish crossbreed that lives both in the woods and woodland streams The former would be more boring and the latter more interesting so on the average this post is just fine. You know how musicians practice scales […]

Deer Scales

August 31, 2014 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Los Angeles NCLR — With expertise in bilingual education, part of my job here at 7 Generation Games is to not just attend and demonstrate the games at events, but also give my input on where are the appropriate places to spend our limited marketing dollars. The NCLR 2014 (National Council of La Raza) National […]

National Latino Family Expo – great event to attend but ...

August 29, 2014 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Last night we attended the first EdTech LA Meetup at Coworkk (yes, it is spelled “Coworkk”) in Beverly Hills. We met a lot of great people and heard some interesting presentations about some of the projects that other members of the group we we’re working. So what is the EdTech LA Meetup […]

LA Ed Tech Meetup

August 28, 2014 in 7GenGames / Uncategorized by admin

We love our office so much; it is not only the heart of our company, but also the space in which great minds aggregate and dreams, passion, and hard work materialize into educational games that have the potential to make a huge difference in the world! But our time and […]

Come Find Out More About Us!

August 28, 2014 in 7GenGames / Uncategorized by admin

7 Generation Games — In my time so far at 7 Generation Games I’ve had the opportunity to make a number of contributions to the sound of our games, such as: cleaning up and editing voice recordings, creating new sounds for the games, and batch conversion of audio files. My most immediate contribution came […]

Sound editing internship at 7 Generation Games

August 22, 2014 in 7GenGames / Uncategorized by admin