Enough is enough. I was on Twitter this morning when I was officially pushed over the edge. Here’s the tweet that did it: Edge Retreats gets $1 million to simplify booking of luxury villas https://t.co/QBGoUkw6bI pic.twitter.com/ogsNKYz043 — VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) April 8, 2016 “Now, what’s wrong luxury villas?” You might be […]
Start-up Diaries
Entrepreneurs often hear that investors are only interested after a company has “traction”. Recently, our CEO made a wasted trip to meet someone who allegedly is interested in funding women-owned start-ups. At the meeting, she was told, “You’re too early for us. We don’t usually invest until a company is […]
Catch-22 for Start-up Funding: Inequality 101
The annual convergence of the video game industry known as GDC ends today, so I thought it was worth sharing what I took away from attending the event when I dropped in for the Expo. I went to GDC expecting to see a lot of cool games and ideas, which […]
GDC 2016: A Few Final Observations
To anyone questioning whether “this VR thing” is going to get bigger/stick around, all signs at the Game Developers Conference 2016 point to yes. Actually, given what I saw at GDC, it’s more of a YES! If the looming Oculus installation when you walked into the expo didn’t hammer that […]
GDC 2016: The Reality About Virtual Reality
One of the video games industry’s biggest annual events, the Game Developers Conference is underway in San Francisco. CEO Maria Burns Ortiz up to check out GDC and see what cool ideas she could come away with for our upcoming games. You can see all the advances in gaming and […]
7 Generation Games Is Live from GDC 2016
TRUE STORY: When I was in the seventh grade, our school had a speech contest. I wanted to win simply because I was that obnoxious kid who had to win EVERYTHING. So, I worked really hard, did research, followed the exact format, practiced in front of a mirror, all of […]
Ed Tech, Investors and Bunnies
As I watched the pitches at Twin Cities Startup Weekend EDU, I couldn’t help but notice all the teams radiated the excitement and enthusiasm of those new to entrepreneurship. It’s that combination of idealism and idea that gets all of us into the startup life. I was really impressed by […]
There’s No Such Thing As Easy Money
COME OUT AND MEET THE 7 GENERATION GAMES TEAM 7 Generation Games is preparing to get on the road starting next month, to attend various conferences and expos. Our calendar of events is filling up as we spread the word on how entertaining our games are to play; and the […]
Meet us as 7 Generation Games Hits the Road!
We’re knocking off the last few edits on our grant proposal, we completed the pretest of math scores with 125 students with another 150 to take the test next week. We have hundreds of players participating in the beta tests for Forgotten Trail and Aztech. So, now that we have […]
The week of 1,000 changes
I don’t think a lot of video games are set in Iowa. Our game under development, Aztech, begins in Iowa. We didn’t pick Iowa for any specific reason. We just wanted a state that was rural and far away from central America. Very early in the game, our heroes are […]
Here’s to you, Iowa
1 So … this is what I am working on today …. In short, and this is a rant for another day, we found through our pretests that the average student needed FAR more remedial help in mathematics than we had expected. Each time you go up a level in the […]
Game Design: Reusable Code, Part 1
If you are thinking of joining a start-up, take this advice to heart: There is no room for specialists here! This weekend (yes, I know it is the weekend and Valentine’s Day, but we’re a start-up) – as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted – this weekend, […]