Yearly Archives: 2018

Maria and AnnMaria — “There’s no history of anything happening until it does. And then there is.” When we were writing “My Fight/Your Fight,” our editor asked if we wanted to start with an epigraph – or quote/sentence/saying to start the book. Ronda knew immediately what she wanted that quote to be – the […]

Making Our Own History

January 16, 2018 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

Before you get all up in arms, we are keeping the interns we have, but we don’t have the budget for any more at the moment. However, we have work that needs to be done, particularly in sales and marketing. I talked to a few of our investors recently and […]

The Debate: Unpaid Interns or No Interns ?

January 14, 2018 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

annmaria in snow — One of the opening lines of a game we have in prototype, Crossroads, is It’s pretty crazy around here … Unlike that story, though, things have been crazy good. Warning: This is going to sound like one of those annoying Christmas letters. You know the ones, Janey cured cancer right […]

It’s pretty crazy around here …

January 13, 2018 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

drawing of Native American girl by student — AnnMaria, the president and founder of 7 Generation Games, visited Tate Topa Tribal School this week to hear students’ suggestions for characters, educational activities, and games. In short, we wanted to know, “How can we make our games even better?” Kids had a lot of great ideas. The 7 Generation […]

Kids Can Help Make Better Games

January 13, 2018 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Newsletter by Hannah Wren

Hello everyone! It’s time for another Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is related to our game Spirit Lake. The freebie is a link we like. The link we like is the Dakota-Lakota page from the Native-Languages.org website. Overall, the Native Languages website strives to preserve and promote American Indian languages. It […]

Freebie Friday: Links We Like, Native-Languages.org (Dakota-Lakota)

January 12, 2018 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Cultural Content / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Happy Freebie Friday! It’s the first Friday of 2018, so welcome to a new year of Freebie Fridays. Today’s freebie is associated with our game Fish Lake and it is another photo of Ojibwa camp life. We previously shared a different photo of an Indian woman drying fish. Today’s photo […]

Freebie Friday: Man Mending His Canoe (historical photo)

January 5, 2018 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Educational Games / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Freebie Friday / Native American culture by Diana Sanchez

Happy 2018! It’s a new year, and a time when millions of people make resolutions with the aim of bettering themselves, their lives and/or the world around them. The idea of resolutions is admirable, even if only 8% of people actually keep their resolutions. (You don’t need to be good […]

Sticking to your New Year’s Resolutions (We’re Here to Help!)

January 3, 2018 in Uncategorized by Maria Burns Ortiz

I’ll be honest, I didn’t even know what a Quora session was until someone asked me to do one. Today, as a public service, I will tell you how you can ask me questions on Quora, what a Quora session is and what is Quora. I posted something very similar […]