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The New York Times succinctly summed up the problem with many of the “hot startups” that are getting all the buzz. [The current tech] boom is characterized by a rise in so-called on-demand services aimed at the wealthy and the young. With a few taps on a phone, for a […]

Technology for the 100 Percent

June 15, 2015 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

Dr. Longie — GUEST POST FROM DR. ERICH LONGIE, 7 GENERATION GAMES LEAD CULTURAL CONSULTANT: As a long time educator on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation, I’ve had many discussions with other educators in our school system regarding how to raise the average yearly performance (AYP) scores of our students. Unfortunately, due to […]

The Advantages & Disadvantages of Year-Round School on an Indian ...

June 14, 2015 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Education: Innovation and STEM by Maria Burns Ortiz

One nice part of working at 7 Generation Games is hearing from people who play our games. Here are a few that made my day. Some are from a middle school where I had the opportunity to meet student in person and several followed up with letters (which I’ll bet […]

Mail Call

June 14, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Fish Lake — We’re Getting Smarter and You Can Too! We are excited to have just released the brand new version of our video game Spirit Lake 5.0! You can download your copy by visiting our website here: http://www.7generationgames.com/buy/ As with all software, we’re constantly working to make our product better – and Spirit Lake […]

We’re Getting Smarter and You Can Too!

June 9, 2015 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Game Progress tagged Spirit Lake / summer learning by admin

This is your chance at video game immortality. Best-selling author Derek Landy, who has penned the amazing Skulduggery Pleasant series, scored one of our coolest Kickstarter rewards – the opportunity to have a character based on someone’s likeness. (When you’re not playing our games, you should totally be reading his […]

Contest by Skulduggery Pleasant Author Derek Landy: Become a Character ...

June 8, 2015 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

new math activities page with graphics instead of links — When we started 7 Generation Games, we made some effort to interest angel investors. We had a few meetings with people who either: Told us flat out they didn’t think our company had commercial potential, including one who said, and I quote, “No one is interested in Indians” and another, […]

Not Getting Early Investor Money Was the Best Thing That ...

June 8, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

No one is ever going to give me $3 million in seed money just because I have an idea. I am not white enough, young enough, male enough and not only did I not drop out of an Ivy League school, I actually stuck around the University of California (a […]

When Disadvantages Are a Blessing

June 2, 2015 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from May 14, 2013,“Four Things Students Should Have Learned in School but Didn’t” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. Here are four more of Dr. De Mars 55 things I have learned […]

Throwback Thursday: Four Things Students Should Have Learned in School ...

May 28, 2015 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged coding / don't be a pain / learn how to code / mean what you say / say what you mean by AnnMaria De Mars

sausage — We’re almost done adding the polish to Spirit Lake. That’s polish, as in making all shiny and perfect, “polish your car”, not “Polish” as in sausage. The first change you’ll see from earlier versions is that the introductory 2-D hunting scene is replaced by a really short 3-D game. As […]

Spirit Lake Polish

May 27, 2015 in Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

background — We left off last time having created a form, written HTML and CSS, initializing the variables and selecting two random integers within a range we specified. Our next step is to put those numbers into a problem. That function is shown below. // CREATING A PROBLEM function getProb() { $('#mathform').show(); […]

Making a mini-game: Step 3 Getting the problem

May 26, 2015 in AnnMaria / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Did you back Forgotten Trail on Kickstarter? Your rewards are coming! Last week we began mailing out rewards to our Kickstarter backers. The autographed photo of our real life game models (Ronda Rousey, Julia De Mars and Sophie “the dog”) was mailed to all of our Kickstarter backers who pledged $100 […]

Did you back us on Kickstarter? Your rewards are coming!

May 26, 2015 in 7GenGames tagged Kickstarter / rewards by admin

form for math problem — Note: This is a step-by-step example of how to go about creating a mini-game. In this example, you get an animated pet dog. For every multiplication problem you solve, you and your dog get to do more activities. To see the first post in the series, Game Design, click here. […]

Making a Mini-Game Step 2: Setting it up

May 24, 2015 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars