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Create Studio app on two monitors and lunch on my messy desk
"If you could be profitable, even if it’s just barely profitable, then it allows you to live forever.  And then it allows you to grow and crescendo upon something very real." Matt Dalio Since 7 Generation Games is now profitable, hearing this just made my day, and it is totally true. So much of what is broadcast by founders is having that $1 million contract or raising that $500,000 seed round. We have been there and that is very cool to be able to tell people. The fact is, though, no matter how much revenue you have or the size of your Series A, if at some point your income doesn't exceed your expenses, your company is going to die.

Paying technical (and other) debt: Non-sexy but happy times

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Page from a wiki showing a game path
Before I started my first company, before I earned a Ph.D. , I was a judo champion. I competed for 14 years - and I was pretty good at it. I won international competitions on every continent except for Antartica and Australia, and culminated by winning the world championships. Then I went off and did something completely different - was a professor teaching statistics, then a consultant doing statistical programming. Now I'm running a company, making educational games and, more importantly, creating a platform so anyone can make educational games.

3 Ways Becoming a World Champion is Like Making a ...

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What can you make with blocks? Screenshot showing icons for 8 games
Are you an educator who wants to replace boring worksheets and workbooks with games you can make yourself, as easy as writing a blog post? Sign up for a workshop for our no-code builder. Do you teach a coding class and would like an easy way for your high school students to make games with JavaScript? Sign up for our low-code game builder workshop. Do you just want to make educational games? If you answered, "Yes", sign up for our free workshop.

Get Free Professional Development on Making Educational Games

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Game screen: Two children in front of a star quilt
Starting with the happy news. Our 7 Gen Blocks platform has made it possible for us to create games at a far faster pace and lower cost. Check out six educational games we made in the past year thanks to a grant from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program. All of these were made with 7 Gen Blocks. And those aren’t all of the games we’ve made this year.

Housecleaning, Unity Bugs and Speed Development

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