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Monthly Archives: October 2014

dog — Interesting that @x4GY has only tweeted 20 times and yet I found one of those tweets very much worth quoting. “It may not be possible to be 100% better than your competition but you can be 1% better in 100 ways.” Even though I am pretty darn far from Gen […]

100 Improvements and a multiplication dog

October 18, 2014 in AnnMaria / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

This week I had the opportunity to attend the Tech Coast Venture Network event on Crowfunding with Howard Leonhardt (who I will discuss in my next blog). At the beginning of the event, TCVN hosted an elevator pitch contest that was followed by a short session on how to create […]

The key to a great elevator pitch is not rocket ...

October 17, 2014 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries tagged Elevator Pitch / TCVN / Tech Cost Venture Network by admin

Creating game audio involves many stages, from production, editing, mastering, to integration. Achieving a high-quality end result starts at the recording stage. While there are many fantastic tools available capable of greatly enhancing less-than-optimal, or even problematic recordings, you can save a lot of time and effort in achieving that […]

Tips For Improving Sound Quality

October 16, 2014 in 7GenGames tagged 7 Generation Games / Audio / Dialogue / sound by eric

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from January 19, 2012 on Learning from the mistakes of others that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. Three times within a very short period I have seen technology offerings that […]

Throwback Thursday: Learning from the mistakes of others

October 16, 2014 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Fish Lake — When I first started my internship at 7 Generation Games, I had very little knowledge of the gamification of education. Thanks to the help of AnnMaria and Maria, the founders of our great start-up, I was able to learn more about making math and Native American history fun for the […]

Trent’s Personal Experience with Gamification

October 15, 2014 in 7GenGames tagged 7 Generation Games / Adventure Gaming / blog / Fish Lake / Intern / Math by AnnMaria De Mars

7GenBanner — Tina Thomas has worked as an accessibility consultant for our parent company, The Julia Group, for many years. Today, she and I were reviewing our game design. She uses JAWS for a screen reader . She also has an iPhone 6 plus that has accessibility software built-in at no extra […]

Games for children who are blind – and everyone ...

October 14, 2014 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

7GenBanner — To enlarge the map above to a full-screen size, click here. We were updating our list of game licenses to see where our educational video games are being played in the United States and around the world. We discovered that we now have schools and after-school programs playing our games […]

Where in the world is 7 Generation Games?

October 10, 2014 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Game Progress / Math tagged US map of states / Who is playing our games by admin

bass (the fish) — For months we have been working on improvements to our next game, Fish Lake. Day after day, it was like piling up pebbles, fixing this line of code, brushing up that graphic. As usual, the first version had its share of glitches. It seemed like progress was going really […]

Fish Lake Rocks

October 10, 2014 in AnnMaria / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

What is Wordpress? — The following is a guest blog from our our friends at Fusion Media Concepts who developed our new website. ENJOY! When 7 Generation Games approached us at Fusion Media Concepts to develop their new website we were extremely excited to be working with their company. They had indicated they have […]

Developing a new website should be FUN!

October 9, 2014 in 7GenGames tagged building a website / website development by admin

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from April 16, 2014 on The Benefits of Being Uncool that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. Tom Peters has written quite a bit about the huge market opportunities in providing goods and […]

Throwback Thursday: The Benefits of Being Uncool

October 9, 2014 in AnnMaria tagged computer games / EdTech / education by AnnMaria De Mars

I started learning how to program just a few years ago. While learning how to code, I kept little mind other than to use whatever methods suited my style best. I wasn’t overly concerned with anyone else being able to decipher the projects that I was working on, other than […]

Working Together

October 8, 2014 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Math tagged 7 Generation Games / blog / Intern / Internship by Gonzalo

teachers — One basic principle we adopted early at 7 Generation Games is that teachers know what they need in their classrooms better than we do. We listen when teachers say something like, In the school where I work, “learned helplessness” is a huge problem. Kids don’t even try to read the […]

A game to teach a game

October 7, 2014 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars