Note: All posts are written 100% by me. The only AI is the AnnMaria Intelligence.
We’ve made it possible for people to create games to teach content they want to share, no coding required. Our very early beta was about five months ago and THANK YOU to everyone who attended our webinars (if you missed out, you can learn to build a game with Julia on YouTube ), participated in our Unblocked contest to build a game with 7 Gen Blocks and gave us feedback.
Hey, it looks ready, why are you still working on it?
Yes, you can 100% make a game without coding, which makes creating a game possible for someone who doesn’t know JavaScript, Python or C#. That’s great and it does vastly reduce the time to create an educational game. You can learn all about the 7 Gen Blocks game builder here, including finding a link to try it out.
You can make a game just by answering questions like “Do you want to create a new game or edit an existing game?
So … what’s the problem?
There are two problems, really.
- Your game will be much better and you’ll make it much faster if you start with a game design. It turns out that most people have never made a game and don’t know how to write a game design. We have some design tips on that on our 7 Gen Blocks site, but most people could still use some help. We’re working on creating an AI-option for that. Stay tuned.
- THIS IS THE BIG ONE. Making a game requires artwork and making that artwork takes a huge amount of time. Our big change lately has been the addition of asset packs to the game builder. What that means is that you can select artwork from a collection without having to make your own. Each pack has all of the images you would need for a game. There are three available now – farm pack, winter pack and city pack. Two of those packs are artwork created by our 7 Generation Games artists and one is done with AI.
The short answer is – we have made it easier to make an educational game – so much so that we have had 64 games made by users in the first few months. Were all of those great? To be honest, no. Some were really good and others were, um, not as really good. Revise problem #1 above.
My point, and I do have one, is that making it easier to make good educational games doesn’t mean we have made it easy enough to satisfy me – which is why we continue working on it every day.
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