What is the calorie content of the average rabbit? When I was in graduate school studying multivariate statistics, I never guessed this would be one of the questions I’d ask in a typical work day. As part of our look into what a game developer does all day, I’m going […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
The 7 Generation Games team has just got back from Vegas so odds are on our minds. We were in Vegas where our CEO’s daughter/CMO’s sister/our celebrity endorser was headlining UFC 170. We also hosted a 7 Generation Games tweetup tied to the event. Vegas is all about odds: slot […]
Accelerators, Part 1: A roll of the dice
I’m back! It’s been a while since I was on the blog, between Spirit Lake, Turtle Mountain and Las Vegas. Kind of ironic that I don’t gamble since so much of my time is spent staying in hotels with casinos. After two weeks of meeting with teachers and students in […]
Meanwhile, back at the office … Perseverance
A while back, Venture Beat ran a piece on why most ed tech startups suck. We had to agree — and felt slightly superior knowing that we definitely do no fall under that suck category. It’s a good read on what ed tech startups should and shouldn’t do. And one […]
Teacher and Student Input — Or Why It’s So Hard ...
The top scorer in the Fish Lake game for last week was … Tiger5 The first two players to finish our new release of the Spirit Lake game are TTMcGarvey4 TTMcGarvey13 They are moving on to Fish Lake, so the Tiger may have some competition!
And we have a winner !
I was going through some of the 7 Generation Games data to get an idea of where our users come from geographically. Realizing what a wide range of geography we cover, I thought it would make for a neat map. Yes, that’s the kind of thing I think is fun. […]
We’re Not Yet Everywhere — But We’re Getting There
we need more startup posts that are about “here is all the boring shit y’all have to do” and less “INNOVATION BRIGHT EYES STARS DANCING” — Shanley (@shanley) January 24, 2014 Wish granted. There are a lot of cool things about having a startup. It’s exciting to create something new […]
Startups and Downs
7 Generation Games integrates math, adventure gaming and Native American history. In eight weeks, students who played our games scored 300 percent higher on post-test. Aligned with Common Core standards. Culturally and historically accurate portrayal. Launched product on Spirit Lake Nation. Work directly with tribes portrayed, employ tribal members, used […]
7 Generation Games at EdCamp Magnet
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
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 ...
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
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 […]