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Monthly Archives: October 2015

candy — When I tell people I make adventure games that teach math, social studies and English, too often people respond with, “But aren’t there already a million educational games on the market?” Or even worse with, “My 13-year-old nephew made an educational game over the weekend.” Anyone who has ever taught […]

PLEASE don’t tell me about your 13-year-old nephew who made ...

October 15, 2015 in Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Drum Roll Please …. and the results of the Tourist Visa Week 2 missions are AMAZEBALLS Di is amazeballs for not just posting on social media but also testing the games on her laptop and working with us to identify hardware limits. She also noted that we meant to dam […]

Some of you are great and the rest are amazeballs

October 13, 2015 in 7GenGames by AnnMaria De Mars

singer — What makes something a “good” educational resource? I think it is simply being good education. Let’s take this example, which is my favorite video on mean, median and mode for young students. I liked his singing. First of all, this is an example of being age appropriate. For a class […]

What Makes Something “Good Education”?

October 13, 2015 in 7GenGames / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Happy Friday! Today’s Freebie Friday takes a look at the Native American tradition of counting coup, right from Spirit Lake: The Game. After a battle, people of the tribe would gather together to recount their acts of bravery and to count coup. Coup was recorded by putting notches in a coup […]

Freebie Friday: Native American Traditions

October 9, 2015 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday / Uncategorized by Jessica Holmes

thumbs up — We have an opening for an intern. This is a paid part-time position and I would like to see some women apply. The last three permanent employees we hired in this company have been men, and two of our three co-founders are women, so we are hardly unfriendly to women […]

Women in Tech: Invite yourself to the dance!

October 8, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives (but not too far back), we came across this great post from March 26, 2015, “How Do You Create Your Characters?” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. e get this question a lot and it is actually not a simple […]

Throwback Thursday: How Do You Create Your Characters?

October 8, 2015 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Jessica Holmes

Beach — Want to work with us? That’s a rhetorical question. Of course, you do. Now, here’s your chance. We’re looking for a paid intern who can commit to roughly 20 hours a week. Our basic pre-requisites: You have to be reliable. Moreover, you need to understand that deadlines are absolutely paramount. You […]

Work by the beach making games: Paid internship

October 6, 2015 in 7GenGames by AnnMaria De Mars

two kids — These days, I can’t get away from user stories. They were brought up in classes at Boom Startup accelerator. Someone bought me a book on them. If you are at all into agile software development you are in LOVE with user stories. All the definitions sound something like this one […]

We Don’t Have User Stories. We Have Users

October 6, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Sam from Forgotten Trail — When I was in college, the point of business ethics was to feel superior to other people. Sometimes, I felt superior by dismissing older relatives who thought being expected to buy lunches for clients was extortion as ‘not understanding how businesses work’. Other times, I was contemptuous of companies that […]

Ethics: Where is YOUR line?

October 4, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Welcome to an adventure in gaming — By the way … this was from my article in our bi-weekly newsletter. If you aren’t on the list and would like to be, email info@7generationgames.com and we’ll sign you up. +++++++ I was asked to write on diversity in tech but I wanted to talk about our tourist visa […]

Are you crazy? Are you lazy? And other questions answered

October 2, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s Friday and we have another Freebie for you! This time, we are sharing our favorite links to teacher resources. There are tons of resources out here – we’ve done the hard part and vetted them for you. Take a look at our Resources page – we’ve also included below: […]

Freebie Friday: Links We Like

October 2, 2015 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday / Math by Jessica Holmes

Going through our archives (but not too far back), we came across this great post from April 23, 2015, “How 7 Generation Games differs from other companies” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. f this is your first visit to our website, thank you […]

Throwback Thursday: How 7 Generation Games Differs From Other Companies

October 1, 2015 in 7GenGames / Throwback Thursday by Jessica Holmes