Monthly Archives: January 2014

It’s been a really productive two weeks in North Dakota, installing our game in schools on two reservations, in tribal schools and public schools. I didn’t write this post to talk about that. Rather, in keeping with some of the really useful posts I’ve read about start-up failures, I wanted […]

Failing Forward and regression lines

January 31, 2014 in AnnMaria tagged fail forward by admin

We drove out to Warwick, North Dakota last week. If you wondered what the scenery was like, it all pretty much looked like this. It was worth it, though, because we met a lot of really smart people. One of them, Dean Dauphinais, is the Superintendent of Warwick Schools and […]

A Virtual Eagle Feather to our High Scorer of the ...

January 26, 2014 in 7GenGames / High Score by AnnMaria De Mars

We’ve talked a ton about the ongoing development and now testing of Fish Lake — an endeavor that has largely overtaken everyone on our staff’s lives. However, in the last week, we have also rolled out our Teacher’s Resources Sites – including one for 7 Generation Games, Spirit Lake: The […]

And Another Thing… Our Teacher’s Resources Sites Go Live

January 23, 2014 in 7GenGames / Uncategorized by Maria Burns Ortiz

Lately, I’m feeling like Ben & Jerry – or maybe it’s Snapple. At any rate, some northeastern, cold weather states consumable product where they got their company off the ground by going to all of the local stores and talking the individual store owners into trying their product and seeing […]

Ben & Jerry Visit North Dakota

January 21, 2014 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

I had a few other topics I wanted to write posts about – our mini-games, changing the language for each game, future activities planned in the game, all of the changes we have made and will be making to align with common core – but time’s up. In about 12 […]

Hi Ho Hi Ho It’s Off to North Dakota We ...

January 18, 2014 in 7GenGames / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

When I tell other entrepreneurs that I am half of the development team for 7 Generation Games, I’m met with a variety of reactions, few of them good. Polite disbelief: “So, you just use like Dreamweaver or WordPress to clean up some html, right?” Um, wrong. Disapproval: “As CEO, aren’t […]

Coding Your Own Stunts: Good or Bad?

January 8, 2014 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

The fact is, this is what teachers will be expected to teach and students will be expected to learn at specific grade levels.

Our Support for Common Core

January 6, 2014 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries tagged Common Core by AnnMaria De Mars

The most exciting part about working in a start-up, and particularly at 7 Generation Games, is all of the new ideas that we are going to make happen. Right now, I’m adding Ojibwe to our newest game, Fish Lake. I designed the games so that a new language could be […]

In with the new!

January 5, 2014 in 7GenGames / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

This is one of my occasional posts for those of you interested in how software is made – at least at 7 Generation Games. There have been a lot of articles lately saying start-ups need to talk about their failures as well as successes. I can’t say we have had […]

Development in the Past Year

January 1, 2014 in 7GenGames / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

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