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Yearly Archives: 2015

After a hectic three weeks, we completed a successful crowdfunding campaign! We brought in almost 110% of our target of $50,000. After so much hard work, it was time to celebrate as our staff and backers got together at Tom’s Urban at LA Live. If you want to relive the […]

7 Generation Games Celebrates Kickstarter Success

April 18, 2015 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

bad jockey on slow horse — One of the questions that came up during our Kickstarter campaign was whether it was wise to release “sneak peeks” of our game under development, whether that would, in fact, discourage people from backing us because it was less than perfect. My answer was that I believe there are several […]

Why You Shouldn’t Wait for Perfect

April 16, 2015 in AnnMaria / Dog food by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from January 21, 2013,“Things I’ve Learned in (Almost) 55 Years: Post 1 of a bunch” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. I forgot how old I was for a while. Someone […]

Throwback Thursday: Things I’ve Learned in (Almost) 55 Years: Post ...

April 16, 2015 in 7GenGames / Throwback Thursday tagged failure / permanent / perspective / Success / tact / Throwback Thursday by AnnMaria De Mars

Saint Louis, MO – Thursday, April 16th from 7-9pm at Fitz’s | 6605 Delmar Blvd, Saint Louis, MO 63130 Los Angeles, CA – Friday, April 17th from 6-8pm at Tom’s Urban | 1011 S Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015 There is no secret code and it’s free. Just show up and […]

Celebrate with us in Los Angeles and St. Louis

April 15, 2015 in 7GenGames / Events / Women in Tech tagged Kickstarter / Saint Louis / Santa Monica / St. Louis / Thank You by admin

cup cake — Think of all of the time people spend playing games on their phones, computers, Xbox. Yes, everyone. Even you. Now just imagine if all of that time added to what you knew about history, vocabulary and math. How awesome would that be? It would be this awesome. The games we […]

Why I Do What I Do

April 11, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Our project manager Jessica is attending EdCamp Long Beach on Sunday and was asking me what to expect as she has never been to one. I’m by no means the EdCamp expert, but I’ve been to a few (EdCamp Los Altos, EdCamp MSP, EdCamp Magnet, EdCamp SF Bay). Here is what I […]

Tips for a Successful EdCamp

April 10, 2015 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Events tagged Ed Camp / EdCamp Long Beach by Maria Burns Ortiz

We’re feeling very grateful lately, given the over $30,000 pledged already on Kickstarter, the over 100 classroom licenses that have been sponsored, the thousands of people playing Fish Lake and Spirit Lake – I could go on. This post is about YOU, though. What can we give you to show […]

Freebie Friday: What Else Can We Do For You?

April 10, 2015 in AnnMaria / Freebie Friday tagged Freebie Friday / Kickstarter by AnnMaria De Mars

Two years ago, we embarked on our first Kickstarter campaign to help fund our first game, Spirit Lake. We didn’t have any idea what we were getting ourselves into. The amount of time it would take. The stress of wondering whether we would hit our goal. The elation over hitting […]

Three Lessons We Learned From Our Last Kickstarter

April 8, 2015 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

brain doing push-ups — We all know that person who was a great athlete in high school or college that we run into ten years later and think, “Dude, what happened to you?” What happened is that he or she got a desk job, quit working out, got fat and out of shape. One of […]

Why I Make Games to Make You Smarter

April 5, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from March 29, 2013,“Leave the ladder down” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. In her dissertation on African-American leaders, Dr. Shanetta Robinson has a couple of memorable quotes on this topic. One […]

Throwback Thursday: Leave the ladder down: #41 of 55 things ...

April 2, 2015 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged Leave the Ladder Down / Throwback Thursday by AnnMaria De Mars

We posted recently about the 7 Generation Games traveling road show (more dates and locations are constantly being added), but we’re also keeping ourselves busy around town as well. On Thursday, April 2, we’re going to be demoing our games as one of the companies selected for the first Minds […]

7 Generation Games Will Demo at “LA Drink & Demo” ...

April 1, 2015 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

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