AnnMaria, our president, is going on a road trip across North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Missouri in a couple of weeks to visit schools, after-school programs and other social service providers on and off the reservations. Her granddaughter, Eva, is lobbying to go as her sidekick. Below is the […]
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Did you ever have someone point out what was in front of your face all along and, metaphorically, kick yourself for being so stupid? Or, is that just me? Last week I was at the Best of Out of School Time (BOOST) conference and went to a session by Sam […]
Games as a tutoring experience
My lovely children, especially the three younger ones, often tell me that email is for old people. While I do use email a lot for work, I am now wondering whether it is outliving its usefulness. I was at the BOOST conference for 3 days last week and then spent […]
Is email for old people?
Happy Friday! It’s time for another Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from our game Spirit Lake and it’s a video. The video is titled “5 Things To Know About Subtraction” and it teaches 5 important facts about the concept of subtraction. You can watch the video below. 5 Things To […]
Freebie Friday: Spirit Lake – 5 Things To Know About ...
As you may remember, last week AnnMaria and Maria debated over Julia’s work ethic and gave her a challenge. The challenge was to get 500 new subscribers for our 7GenGames TV YouTube channel in three days. How did Julia do? Watch this clip of AnnMaria and find out. Get the […]
Behind The Screens: Maria Was Right
There is a reason that I’m excited to go to Palm Springs and it is not the fact that you can be outside without a parka, although that is a benefit in selecting conference sites (North Dakota and Minnesota, I’m looking at YOU) . It’s not that Palm Springs seems […]
Why I’m Excited to Go to Palm Springs
Happy Friday! It’s time for another Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is related to our game Fish Lake. The freebie is a link we like from the ProTeacher website on perimeter and area. The link from the ProTeacher Collection provides activities that help you teach the concept of perimeter and area. […]
Freebie Friday: Fish Lake – Links We Like: Area and ...
There is only one reason any company stays in business, and that is that they have money in the bank. No matter what you do or make, no matter how good or important it is, you run out of money and that’s the end. Some days, I feel pretty good […]
The Vicious Circle of Start-ups and How We’ve Beaten It ...
2 As you may have heard, we’re in the early stages of a reality series on, well, us – because we’re awesome and we’re making awesome games. Here’s a sneak peek at some of the very raw footage we’ve been filming. In this clip, AnnMaria and Maria debate over Julia De Mars’ work […]
Behind The Screens: Debate Over Julia’s Work Ethic
Lately, I’m giving a lot of thought to working from Belize. If you know me even a little bit, you are probably skeptical, because I don’t believe I have taken a full week off work in over 30 years. Nope, not even when I had a total knee replacement, not […]
Working from Belize?
This is the fifth, and last in a series of posts on how to make a simple maze game. The first four posts can be found below. Initialized all of the variables and called a few functions. Described keyDownHandler function that executes based on where the player goes. Explained the […]
How to make a simple maze game: Part 5, the ...
1 I want to preface this post with I fully advocate for having children when you are ready to have them (or not having them at all if that’s what you want). You obviously should not read this post and go, “Wow, little humans seem totally beneficial to someone starting a […]