Even though I spent last night and this morning in Ojai, I’ve still been getting a good bit of work done. Right now, I’m sitting on the porch at the Lavender Inn typing away at the Fish Lake Game Design Document, adding more math to Level One in keeping with […]
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A friend of mine commented on one of his young employees as, “The worst combination you can get – someone who isn’t interested in the work and doesn’t need the money.” There are lots of advantages of being born into a well-off family. Your family can provide you introductions to […]
The Advantage of Being Poor
Where to even begin … Don’t misunderstand me, I get up every morning and am happy to get to work. The problem is, there is just so much that goes into building a game AND a company. I had a great time at the East Los Angeles College STEAM (Science, […]
In the pit of never-ending improvements
This week has been devoted to testing, documenting and debugging the first four levels of Fish Lake. After that, I will get in to adding more to both the beginning levels and the next two levels. Here is my dilemma of the day  – as any good game, the levels […]
How Hard is Too Hard & Other Game Design ...
Congratulations to Sophie Marie for winning 7 Generation Games dog photo contest! Sophie will be featured in 7 Generation Games upcoming game Forgotten Trail. Sophie’s proud owner Jim Avery will receive a free copy of the Forgotten Trail game and a framed high-resolution print of our illustrator’s game rendering of the […]
And the winning dog entry to be included in our ...
We appreciated our Kickstarter backers so much, we sent them the latest game for free. If you didn’t back us, you can still buy the game for the low price of $9.99 here (Cheap! As they used to say at Mad Magazine. Too young for Mad? Oh, well. )
Here’s How Much We Love Our Kickstarter Backers
Winners of Spirit Lake: The Game as of May, 2014 are listed below. Teachers – we have prizes so if you recognize your student’s username below, please contact us with a mailing address to send their awards. BETSYOHS BRISSA DGALVEZ EVAORTIZ100 HAWK10 HAWK20 HORSE 11 LELLIS RUTABAGA SHAR14 SHARK15 SHARK18 SHARK2 SHARK21 SHARK23 […]
And we have a winner — 31 winners, actually
Since I mentioned the idea of an anti-hackathon – the format for people who have stuff going on in their lives but would still like the fun of knocking out a new project – I’ve had quite a few people contact me. Here is what I have so far and […]
Crowd-sourcing the anti-hackathon
Or Why the National Forum on Dropout Prevention for Native and Tribal Communities Was Awesome. We go to A LOT of events. Between AnnMaria and myself, we try to make it to 1-3 events in-person per month each. It’s a combination of meetups, tweetups, mixers, conventions, conferences, coffees, panels, demos, […]
Identifying Ideal Events (for Your Startup)
I have attended a data hackathon once, as a mentor. I’ve never participated in a hackathon and only briefly considered it a few times. Here are my reasons why not: I have a perfectly comfortable office with a really good desktop with a huge monitor, all kinds of technical books, […]
My Anti-Hackathon
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Vote for your favorite dog to be included in Fish ...
We are excited to announce that beginning the first day of June, 7 Generation Games will be moving into The Water Garden office buildings in Santa Monica. You will be able to find our new office in the west building in Suite 4000. The Water Garden is located on 17 […]