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Yearly Archives: 2014

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

For any startup founder, networking is ridiculously high on the list of things you need to do. For us at 7 Generation Games, that means attending and/or participating in a lot of events. As we continue to grow (if you want to buy a copy of our games, go […]

Meaningful Meetups

October 7, 2014 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

Turbosuid.com is fantastic resource, from which you can browse and download 3D assets. Moreover, many of these are completely free. This has proven extremely helpful in creating the new 3D version of Fish Lake Level 3. We already have some of the objects we need for the two scavenger hunts. […]

Creating Assets With The Help Of TurboSquid

October 6, 2014 in 7GenGames / Game Progress tagged 7 Generation Games / Fish Lake / TurboSquid / Unity by eric

family reading — Today is one of my house-keeping days on the game. In the digital equivalent of dusting, I look over each page, fix any spelling or grammatical errors that may have gone uncaught, adjust margins to make the math problems more readable and other general appearance tasks to improve the instructional […]

To read it to me or not to read it ...

October 5, 2014 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

We are pleased to present our brand new demo of Spirit Lake: The Game that you may download for FREE. Our demo consists of a portion of the first level of Spirit Lake: The Game and will give you a taste of what is available in the full game. So what exactly […]

Have you downloaded our demo yet?

October 3, 2014 in 7GenGames tagged Common Core / Demo / Free Download / Math Game / Spirit Lake:The Game by admin

I have been searching all over the web for interesting, fun and of course helpful math blogs to share with you. I found these to be the most engaging in my opinion. I hope they can be of use to your students, children at home or even yourself! I’d love […]

10 Interesting Math Blogs

October 2, 2014 in 7GenGames / Math tagged Math / math blogs by admin

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from October 21, 2013 on why girls don’t like Math that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. Having taught math myself for the past 30 years, and with a brother […]

Throwback Thursday: Wonder why girls don’t like math? Look at ...

October 2, 2014 in AnnMaria / Math by AnnMaria De Mars