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Yearly Archives: 2016

Happy Freebie Friday! It’s Friday, so welcome back to another Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is associated with our game Fish Lake and it is a photo of Ojibwa camp life. More specifically, the photo depicts an elderly Indian woman outside of a teepee that has poles in front of it […]

Freebie Friday: Photo – Ojibwa camp life

August 26, 2016 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from February 21, 2013 “Which meet-ups are worth your time?” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Are meet-ups worth your time? In a word – maybe. It’s […]

Throwback Thursday: Which meet-ups are worth your time?

August 25, 2016 in 7GenGames / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

making camp math page — There’s a lot of talk within the tech world about “What problem is your product solving?” And too often a lot of those problems aren’t actually problems. For example, food delivery is great. Trust me, probably utilize it more often than I should, but an app that integrates say my […]

Developing Technology to Solve Actual Problems

August 23, 2016 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

flying chicken — Do a startup they said. It will be fun they said. Meanwhile over here, I’m doing my mad scientist laugh. It goes like this moo ha ha ha. There are some fun parts but look for another post on that as well as how to keep from going insane as […]

The depressing life of founders

August 21, 2016 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Brissa — Meet Xitlali – I mean, Brissa – from Aztech Games. She’s the 17-year-old character behind the character.

Character behind the characters: Xitlali from Aztech Games

August 21, 2016 in 7GenGames by AnnMaria De Mars

My Darth Vader arm — Brief update on my personal life – after returning from my trip to North Dakota and Wyoming, I had surgery to reconstruct my thumb. You can see what my splint looks like below. I got the black one to look like Darth Vader because my granddaughter thinks he’s cool. I […]

Learning from everyone: software and disabilities

August 20, 2016 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Congratulations on making it through another week! It’s Friday and that means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday. To celebrate that for some of you this Friday is the end of your first week of classes back in session or just to simply celebrate that it’s the end of […]

Freebie Friday: Clip art from our games

August 19, 2016 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from March 10, 2013 “Two more things I have learned in 55 years: Kindness is never wasted & You just never know” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. […]

Throwback Thursday – Two more things I have learned in ...

August 18, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

5 year old soccer player — I spent this morning working from the sideline of a soccer field. It was not my initial plan, but when my husband called to tell me my 4-year-old was crying and hanging on his leg, refusing to join the group at soccer camp, I saw two real options (leaving her […]

The Value of Being Able to Work Anywhere

August 16, 2016 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by Maria Burns Ortiz

potato — Last month, we gave away our games at 90% off because we wanted to get more users before the beginning of school and get more feedback to make those games better. Why not free? I attended a talk at the Entertainment Finance Forum (see, learning from everyone) and the speaker, […]

Why not free?

August 15, 2016 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

My mom* isn’t the only one who thinks we’re cool! Yesterday, we learned Fish Lake got Greenlit on the game-distribution platform Steam. What does that mean? Well, some really cool things. First off, if you’re not familiar with Steam and its Greenlight process, Steam is a huge global game distribution platform. […]

Fish Lake Gets Greenlit on Steam!

August 12, 2016 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

It’s Friday and that means that once again it’s time for another Freebie Friday! But today isn’t any regular Freebie Friday, it’s the Freebie Friday before a lot of your students return to school. Maybe your school has already been in session for a couple of weeks now. Keeping all […]

Freebie Friday: Teacher Resources

August 12, 2016 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez