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Yearly Archives: 2016

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from April 5, 2013 “Advice to Young People” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Since all young people obviously need advice from me, here is four minutes of it. Or, in one word: […]

Throwback Thursday: Advice to Young People

January 21, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged Advice / AnnMaria De Mars / Dr. AnnMaria De Mars / Throwback Thursday / Young People by Erick Salomon

AnnMaria on a mountain — There is one thing every startup needs to fear the most, and it is not that Google or Microsoft will come out with a competing product, that you’ll run out of money before you polish your prototype, that your technical co-founder will chuck it all to go hiking in the […]

What Every Startup Fears Most

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

Dancing President — Why did I just drop and do 25 push-ups at 2 a.m. ? Why were Maria and I working on a grant proposal for Small Business Innovation Research until past 1 a.m. while her oldest child fell asleep on my couch? Both questions have the same answer, one I learned […]

The Not-So-Secrets to Success

January 17, 2016 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Happy Friday Everyone! It’s the end of a long week and as a reward, here’s your Freebie Friday treat! Students, parents and teachers have loved and enjoyed the Teachers Resources sections on our site, covering the games: Spirit Lake and Fish Lake. The positive feedback we’ve gotten on Facebook and Twitter, […]

Freebie Friday: Aztech Teacher Resources

January 15, 2016 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged Aztech / Freebie Friday / Teacher Resources by Erick Salomon

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from May 27, 2011 “The Rumors of Our Sucking at Math Have Been Greatly Exaggerated” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Question authority. Whenever I hear authoritative statements made that don’t fit […]

Throwback Thursday: The Rumors Of Our Sucking At Math Have ...

January 14, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria De Mars / Math / Testing / Throwback Thursday by Erick Salomon

We’re starting a new series of videos called: Characters Behind the Characters, spotlighting the talent behind the people who bring life to our games. Today we’re diving into Forgotten Trail and bringing you an introduction with the lovely and talented Julia de Mars. Julia provides the voice for the lead […]

Characters Behind The Characters: Julia de Mars

January 13, 2016 in 7GenGames tagged angie / Characters behind the characters / forgotten trail / julia de mars / video / YouTube by Erick Salomon

Native American culture and tradition is obviously an important influence to our company and the type of products we make and release. Our Native American ties are strong. Throughout the year, our team visits various reservations across the country, meeting with tribe elders and educators as we work on content. […]

The Most Popular Cultural Videos of 2015

January 13, 2016 in 7GenGames / Newsletter tagged 2015 / Culture Videos / newsletter / Top 10 List by Erick Salomon

Unicorn — Along with running a game company, I teach, both judo and statistics. In neither my judo classes nor my courses in multivariate statistics, epidemiology or quantitative data analysis does anyone ever ask “Isn’t there a way of doing this without effort? Could we possibly learn judo without doing any actual […]

Wanted: Magical Math Unicorn

January 11, 2016 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Math by AnnMaria De Mars

Happy Freebie Friday! Winter break is over as the first week of 2016 is almost in the books. With the New Year upon us, the team here at 7 Generation Games is working hard on getting our newest game Aztech, out to the public. With that in mind, we want to […]

Freebie Friday: Using The Median To Build Pyramids

January 8, 2016 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged Aztech / Freebie Friday / Median by Erick Salomon

Before we dive right into the New Year, we’re continuing our look back at the year that was, offering up another Top 10 List of 2015. Today we’re spotlighting our Blogs! During the year, our team creates a vast collection of blog posts covering everything from free resources and trends […]

Looking Back At Our Most Popular And Talked About Blog ...

January 7, 2016 in 7GenGames / Newsletter tagged 2015 / Blogs / newsletter / Top 10 List by Erick Salomon

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from January 19, 2012 “Learning From The Mistakes of Others” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Three times within a very short period I have seen technology offerings that I thought were […]

Throwback Thursday: Learning From The Mistakes Of Others

January 7, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria De Mars / Lessons / Mistakes / Throwback Thursday by Erick Salomon

woman picking fruit — It might seem funny writing about this today when the Federal Trade Commission recently slapped Lumosity with a $50 million fine for claiming its games make you brighter. In a bit of bright news for Lumosity, the FTC did settle with them for $2 million. You might think I […]

How Games Can Really Make You Smarter

January 6, 2016 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars