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Monthly Archives: March 2015

grandfather with deer in background — Make new friends, but keep the old, One is silver and the other gold. I really like that song they sing on New Year’s Eve because I think there is a lot of good advice to it. Lately, we have been working on both our newest game, Forgotten Trail, […]

We Haven’t Forgotten Our Old Friends

March 31, 2015 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

We’re in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign, and we’ve been getting a lot of emails about our project. Many of them are from our awesome backers – which we love to get. But we’re also getting a number of emails – 11 and counting — from what we’re internally […]

Kickstarter and the Emergence of Project Trolls

March 31, 2015 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

We wanted to give a big thank you to everyone who came out to our meet up on Friday at our headquarters in Santa Monica — especially to the companies that partnered with us, Evrybit and Sabio. (Next time someone makes a comment about there not being Latinos in tech, […]

Relive our Kickstarter Kickoff — And Don’t Forget to Back ...

March 30, 2015 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

Artwork in rest stop — Sometimes, you need to get out of your office and meet with people. The past three days, I have been in central California – Turlock, Livingston, Merced and Fresno. During that time, I met at least 100 people. Some of them I had long conversations with. Some just said, “Hello”. […]

Central California: First Stops on the 7 Generation Games Amazing ...

March 29, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Fish Lake — We get this question a lot and it is actually not a simple answer. One character we plan on using in Forgotten Trail was intended for Fish Lake but we were told by some administrators in no uncertain terms that physical violence between characters in a game for children was […]

How Do You Create Your Characters?

March 26, 2015 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from March 1, 2013,“My Two Answers to Everything” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. When our Kickstarter campaign first started, I questioned the impact of social media. Despite being tweeted out by […]

A second look at social media and Kickstarter statistics

March 26, 2015 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged friendship / Kickstarter by AnnMaria De Mars

dog — Each game we make is aimed at an older and wider audience than the one before. That is cool for a whole bunch of reasons. However, sometimes it’s good to loop back and see what you were working on years ago. Even six months ago can be a long time […]

Back to Square One Can Be a Good Thing

March 23, 2015 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Help wanted — You Can’t Be Excellent in Your Spare Time Dr. AnnMaria De Mars Help. Thanks. Wow. Author Anne Lamott says that all prayers boil down to one of those three words. I know my life certainly does. So, first, thanks. Thanks to everyone who has backed us on Kickstarter, […]

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a newsletter from ...

March 23, 2015 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress / Women in Tech tagged Indian Country Today Media Network / Kickstarter / newsletter by AnnMaria De Mars

You Are Invited to Come Party With Us! We are hosting a tweetup on Friday, March 27th from 6-9pm at the 7 Generation Games office in Santa Monica with our friends from Evrybit and Sabio.la. Wine, beer, and hors d’oeuvres will be served. A tweet-up is an event where people who have met on […]

Come party with us! We’ll provide the wine, beer, hors ...

March 20, 2015 in 7GenGames / Events tagged Kickstarter launch party / party / tweetup by admin

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from September 10, 2013,“My Two Answers to Everything” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. I was going to write about item analysis today but all of the tweets and posts on […]

Throwback Thursday: My Two Answers to Everything

March 19, 2015 in AnnMaria / Math / Throwback Thursday / Women in Tech tagged bullying / cowardice / sexism / Success is the best revenge by AnnMaria De Mars

A Lesson The most useful lesson I learned this year is this – you can’t be excellent in your spare time. I should know. I tried it. Up until this month, along with running 7 Generation Games, I was working as a statistical consultant, chair of a non-profit board and […]

Take the Plunge into Your Business

March 19, 2015 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech by AnnMaria De Mars

our office building — I’d like to answer two questions I have been getting A LOT about the tweet-up we are hosting with two other start-ups Evrybit and sabio.la What’s a tweet-up? Can I come? as well as three questions asked with lesser frequency: 3. Where is it? 4. Is the beer really free? […]

You’re Invited to the Tweet-up on March 27th

March 17, 2015 in 7GenGames / Events / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars