Following the great success of our Northern California and Las Vegas meetups, we’re thrilled to be hosting another teacher/educator/Kickstarter backer meetup in Los Angeles. (Here’s a link to the PDF version if that’s preferable.) See you there!
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to watch my boss give a keynote presentation on statistical analysis to a collection of brainiacs in San Diego. Walking into the conference that afternoon, I was unsure whether or not I would understand a single sentence from the day’s discussions. More nerve-racking […]
The Intern Diaries: The Dumbest Guy in the Room
The problem with many educational games is that they are designed in someone’s office without regular interaction with actual teachers and students. I was teaching third grade at Four Winds in 1988 when they built their first computer lab. The students’ first visit to the lab was to take a […]
Real Teachers: The 7 Generation Games Difference
First of all, if you are playing Spirit Lake:The Game and looked here because you are having a problem, let me just start with this, from our readme file we finally got around to writing. STOP AND READ THIS 90% of the problems users have can be prevented by doing […]
Life of a million fixes
OK, so it’s not so much a world tour, but we’re on the road A LOT lately as we’re busy promoting and working on our games. And while we’re on the road, we’re hoping to meet up with you. Whether you’d like to have us demo at your school, you’re […]
7 Generation Games World Tour
Word about our game is getting out. On Saturday, 7 Generation Games was the subject of a feature story that ran in the Jamestown Sun newspaper in Jamestown, ND. From the story: [7 Generation Games] has received more than $500,000 in federal grants to develop these educational games. It has […]
Press: 7 Generation Games in Jamestown Sun
We’ll be sending all of our pre-release purchasers a link to a new update this week, just because we want you to have it. What this update includes: Self-install for Windows (no more extracting files, creating your own shortcut). Plus a nice little buffalo icon on your desktop. More sound […]
New Update this Week
Last week, I wrote about work-related burnouts: why people get them and how they may be avoided. This week I decided it would be appropriate to build upon this idea a bit further by discussing an equally important professional skill: goal setting. Now when we think of goals, we often […]
The Intern Diaries: “How to StickK to Your Goals”
We’ll be in San Jose next week meeting with some people about getting the game into their classrooms, but we also want to meet with you! Come to our meetup on Aug. 14 from 6-8 p.m. in San Jose. Hope to see you there.
Join us for our Bay Area meetup on 8/14!
You know, I think we need to find a more user-friendly way to install the game on windows than download this, extract all these files and move this here. When Dennis said this out loud, my initial reaction, was, No shit, Captain Obvious! You might wonder why we were so […]