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Yearly Archives: 2016

It’s a madhouse out there! Even if you don’t have a TV, you can’t escape all of the outrageous headlines and “scratch your head” moments that flood your computer screen, phone or tablet. From the childish antics in politics, to the rude, offensive figures in pop-culture, it seems like the […]

Hear About Our World Domination Plans – And New Podcast!

May 4, 2016 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries tagged Dr. AnnMaria De Mars / Maria Burns Ortiz / Marketing / Podcast / Video Blog / World Domination / YouTube by Erick Salomon

Willie Davis — Guest post by Willie Davis, Turtle Mountain Ojibwe The Metis people are a mix of indigenous and European ancestry, and growing up in two cultures is never easy. When I was a young person, the native side emphasized developing leadership abilities, learning the culture and understanding the environment. The white side […]

My Personal View of the Forgotten Trail

May 3, 2016 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Education: Innovation and STEM / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

crow — Hangman, a simple yet easy to understand guessing game that is sneakily quite a bit of fun. My earliest memories of hangman were of my 2nd grade teacher assigning each of us a partner and paper of hard (at the time) vocabulary words. For hard words such as “dangerous” and […]

Hangman Pt. 1

May 3, 2016 in Code Talk / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by Luis Ceballos

Sam and Angie — We are incredibly excited to announce that Forgotten Trail is officially on the market. If you’ve been waiting to see what we’ve been working on, Forgotten Trail does not disappoint. We’ve been hard at work developing our newest virtual world, drawing from gaming and educational research and building upon advances […]

Forgotten Trail Has Arrived!

May 3, 2016 in 7GenGames / Newsletter tagged forgotten trail / Game Announcement / New Game / Premiere by Erick Salomon

Adorable kid — Mother’s Day is this weekend and I’m sure what your mother would like most is for you to show up. So, number one, take Mom to brunch, lunch or dinner, it is the least you can do for all of the trouble you caused her – I know that and […]

Get your mom a school for Mother’s Day!

May 3, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

new page with background added and new activity — Today, for the first time in a month, I woke up in my own bed and had nothing scheduled. No meetings, no family events to attend. The happy thought that went through my mind is that now I can spend all day working on our new game, Forgotten Trail. Today, […]

Why the “game” part of math games is so important

April 30, 2016 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Eva, Maria and me — I get asked this question all of the time in many, many different contexts, from elementary school children who play our games, to game developers who are not involved in education. There are multiple questions for this, but let me answer the grown-ups first. I care so much about math […]

Why Do You Care So Much About Math?

April 30, 2016 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress / Math by AnnMaria De Mars

Happy Friday! We have two FREE math mini-games for Multiplication. Answer the problems correctly and you’ll be rewarded with short videos on Native American clans. The videos offer historical information, along with amazing rare photographs on the Crane Clan. MULTIPLY MATCHING 6-10’S MULTIPLY MATCHING BY 7 These mini games are part of our free […]

Freebie Friday: Multiplication Mini-Games

April 29, 2016 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged Freebie Friday / Mini-Games / Multiplication Games / Summer Site by Erick Salomon

In my last post, I tackled basic physics — and I use “physics” loosely, but amusingly — and children. This time, I’ll be going over units of time and age. Our upcoming game, AzTech, hits on data and measurements as well. The measure concepts we hit on in AzTech are […]

How Old Is My Baby? Wait, How Old Am I?

April 28, 2016 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by Maria Burns Ortiz

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from October 9th, 2014 “How to be Amazing” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I find it weird when I make people nervous. I’ve had people shake and stutter so much that I thought […]

Throwback Thursday: How To Be Amazing

April 28, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged Amazing / AnnMaria De Mars / Dr. AnnMaria De Mars / Life Advice / Throwback Thursday by Erick Salomon

cat — Well, it’s been a minute. Months ago, I started writing about reusable code and was then interrupted by flying around the country to present game results, getting an alpha version of our Aztech game to testers, getting Forgotten Trail ready for release FRIDAY (!!!) etc. You can read Part 1 […]

Game Design: Reusable Code, Part 2

April 27, 2016 in AnnMaria / Code Talk / Educational Games / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

In my very introductory to introductory physics class in ninth grade, we were taught that there is a basic principle of physics that no two objects can occupy the same space. I know my physicist co-founder would likely take issue with my oversimplifying of this statement as when I looked […]

Testing the Boundaries of Physics and My Patience

April 27, 2016 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by Maria Burns Ortiz