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Monthly Archives: February 2015

As many of you know, UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey is also our CEO’s daughter. In fact, Ronda was one of our first game tester and has worked with us as a game consultant since before she was an MMA superstar. As we do before all of her fights, […]

7 Generation Games UFC 184 Tweetup

February 28, 2015 in Events by Maria Burns Ortiz

It’s Friday and here is your Freebie! Our CEO Dr. AnnMaria has a saying about what happens to people who play our educational videos games. Playing our video games is like doing push-ups for your brain. But don’t take our word for it, we have a way that you can measure […]

Freebie Friday: Tools to Measure Your Improvement

February 27, 2015 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged Post Test / Pretest / Testing by admin

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from Dr. AnnMaria De Mars. This blog was originally posted on June 7, 2013 on “Jealousy is Toxic, Honesty is Good and other things I’ve learned in (almost) 55 years” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the […]

TBT: Jealousy is Toxic, Honesty is Good and other things ...

February 26, 2015 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged Criticism / Honesty / Jealousy by AnnMaria De Mars

What is Fish Lake? Fish Lake is the second in our series of games that make you smarter. Playing our games is like doing pushups for your brain. Fish Lake tackles fractions while you migrate with your family across the Great Plains. The game is based on the migration of […]

Donate a class license for Fish Lake, get a Ronda ...

February 25, 2015 in 7GenGames / Educational Games tagged educational video games / Fish Lake / Gene Le Bell / Gene LeBell / Ronda Rousey by admin

old schoolhouse — “That’s academic.” is a term of dismissal. It means that the argument you just raised has no practical importance. There may be times when that aspersion is true (see my next post). It is also true that work life in general, including at start-ups , is closer to school than […]

Five Ways School Teaches You to Run a Start-up

February 25, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

We are excited that 7 Generation Games was featured in Indian Country Today Media Network! See the article below or click here. Math Video Games Being Tested in Reservation Classrooms 2/18/15 Six schools on two North Dakota reservations are piloting a series of cutting-edge math video games that bridge math, […]

7 Generation Games featured on Indian Country Today Media Network

February 23, 2015 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Educational Games / Women in Tech tagged 7 Generation Games / Dakota / Indian Country Today Media Network / Math / Ojibwa / Ojibwe / Spirit Lake Reservation / Turtle Mountain by admin

Fish Lake — I know that Shakespeare said a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but there is still a lot in a name. It is our identity, our first impression when someone “meets” us in print. There’s a reason that no one names their baby “Doofus”. Our big problem […]

What’s in a name?

February 22, 2015 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from December 4, 2013,“The Secret to Productivity: Don’t Be Easily Bothered” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. One of the questions I get asked a lot is “How do you get so […]

Throwback Thursday- The Secret to Productivity: Don’t Be Easily Bothered

February 19, 2015 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday / Women in Tech tagged AnnMaria De Mars / multi-tasking / productivity / programming by AnnMaria De Mars

… our next game is for you. Sam and Angie are two regular people, so regular that when they decide to follow in the footsteps of their ancestors and walk half-way across the continent, almost everyone thinks they will fail, probably in a spectacularly tragic fashion. Who do they think […]

If you’ve ever wanted to prove everyone wrong …

February 18, 2015 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Help kids learn history and we’ll repay your kindness by giving you a piece of history! Just sponsor a classroom of students and provide them the gift of our educational game Fish Lake and we will send you a custom Gene Le Belle limited edition Ronda Rousey badges that had been signed by […]

Help kids learn history and we’ll repay your kindness by ...

February 18, 2015 in 7GenGames / Educational Games tagged Fish Lake / Ronda Rousey / Sponsor a Classroom / UFC 184 by admin

Fish Lake — Want to try it before you buy it? Love the idea of games that make you smarter, like push-ups for your brain, but don’t have $9.99 ? Download a demo version for Mac here or Click here for the Windows version

Fish Lake Demo – Get It Here First!

February 15, 2015 in 7GenGames / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

snakes — I have taught judo since I was 13 years old when the coach arranged for me to pay my YMCA membership by helping to teach the beginning judo class. I thought about this recently when I was asked for the 7,823rd time “What age are your games appropriate for?” It’s […]

Push-ups for Your Brain

February 14, 2015 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars