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Yearly Archives: 2014

Maria Burns Ortiz - NAHJ — Whether or not people decide to give you money — whether you’re talking about investors or customers — begins with your pitch. In short, if you can’t tell people what your product does, what problem it solves and who is going to use it, the odds of your company getting […]

Pitch Perfect: Why A Good Pitch Is Essential and How ...

October 27, 2014 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

tank — If I see one more tweet, video or Facebook post lamenting “if only there were women making games” or “how do we get women in technology”, I think I am going to go all Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Grand Theft Auto and steal a car loaded with weapons […]

What do women in tech need to do to get ...

October 26, 2014 in AnnMaria / Founders Corner / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech tagged Women in Tech / Women that make video games by AnnMaria De Mars

7 Generation Games Blog — It seems like nowadays everything costs money. You want to go to an ATM and withdraw your own money? Chances are you’re going to have to pay a fee. You want to purchase a plane ticket to go on a family vacation? Chances are you’re going to have to pay […]

Freebie Friday: The Best Things in Life Are Free

October 24, 2014 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Freebie Friday / Math tagged Adding Fractions / Freebie Friday by admin

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from November 25, 2012 on “The Benefits of Growing Your Own: The view from the code monkey cage” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. Last week, I wrote about my […]

Throwback Thursday: The view from the code monkey cage

October 23, 2014 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress / Throwback Thursday by AnnMaria De Mars

Fish Lake the game is not a small project and neither is Spirit Lake. The amount of work done on the game is amazing especially since there were only two developers working on it. Now that there are more people working on the game, collaborating on the project can get […]

Working With Git

October 22, 2014 in 7GenGames tagged 7 Generation Games / 7GenerationGames / blog / coding / Intern / Internship / productivity by Gonzalo

Two senior members of our team traveled to Anchorage, Alaska, last week to represent 7 Generation Games at the National Indian Education Association’s annual convention and trade show. The event brings together Native American educators as well as educators working with the Native American community. It was 7 Generation Games’ […]

7 Generation Games at NIEA 2014

October 20, 2014 in 7GenGames / Events by Maria Burns Ortiz

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