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bike — Where do you get your ideas? This has to be one of the most common questions I get about game development and it’s interesting because I think design ideas are EVERYWHERE! Bad design gives me ideas how not to make things. Good design (more about that next post) gives me […]

Design ideas are everywhere: part 1

September 12, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM by AnnMaria De Mars

road in North Dakota — Have you ever tried a bike-sharing app? Maybe if you live out in the country, it’s not a thing, but here in Santa Monica, you can’t go far without seeing the lime green bicycles from our local bike sharing company. The idea is simple. Get an app on your phone, […]

What bike-sharing can teach you about educational technology

September 11, 2017 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s Friday and that means that it’s time for another dose of the Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is associated with our game Spirit Lake and it’s an authentic and copyright-free Native American photo. Our freebie is a historical photo of the census being taken at the Standing Rock Agency. In the […]

Freebie Friday – Taking the Census at Standing Rock Agency ...

September 8, 2017 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Freebie Friday / Native American Resources by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from September 20, 2016 “What I learned about management from judo” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. You may not know, if you only read this blog for […]

Throwback Thursday: What I learned about management from judo

September 7, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

juice — I read this week that Juicero is going out of business. If you are not one of the cool kids you might not be aware that this is the company that made a $700 juicer, later reduced to the bargain price of $400. In this case, you might be interested […]

Seriously, is this what you want to do with your ...

September 5, 2017 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

pineapple — We had Dean Dauphinais, Jr. on the More Than Ordinary podcast this week talking about the charity he co-founded, All Star Vets. One of his motivations he mentioned was that veterans are often people who entered the service at a young age, as teenagers, and they were “part of a […]

Why my tribe needs you and a virtual pineapple

September 3, 2017 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Ronda and her gardening skills — We have done 3 Kickstarter campaigns and there are three questions I get every time. Well, four, if you count, “What’s a Kickstarter campaign?” Why don’t you just get your daughter to pay for everything? Why does it matter if I back you or not? Do you think you really […]

The 3 Questions I Get Every Time

September 2, 2017 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Hello everyone, it’s time for another Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is from our game Fish Lake. The freebie is a culture video on how the Ojibwe fished. The video goes over the different ways that the Ojibwe fished, such as using spears. You can view the video below: There’s more […]

Freebie Friday: There’s more than one way to fish

September 1, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

100 elementary school kids with our posters — Let’s talk about the power of the U.S. Latino market. Wait, you might be asking yourself, a post about Latinos and its not even Hispanic Heritage Month? Yes, we’re crazy like that over here at 7 Generation Games. But seriously, we’re in the midst of completing our AzTech Games […]

Why Going Bilingual Not Only Makes Sense But Makes Money

August 31, 2017 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from February 16, 2013 “Eight things I did NOT know about Kickstarter” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. We started this Kickstarter campaign a little over a week […]

Throwback Thursday: Eight things I did NOT know about Kickstarter

August 31, 2017 in 7GenGames / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

It has been brought to my attention lately that I have not been blogging very much and some people would like to hear more about what is happening. Well, I was kind of at this wedding thing – if you don’t know, now you know, my lovely next-to-youngest daughter got […]

Educational Game Secret: Girls (and boys) just want to have ...

August 31, 2017 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

To do an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit, I needed proof I am me. This is my proof. To ask me anything, click the link below. IamA co-founder with my family of an educational game startup, mother of 4, Ph.D. AMA! In 2013, I co-founded 7 Generation Games, with […]

Reddit: Ask Me Anything

August 30, 2017 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars