AnnMaria and Dennis, who run our tech team, talk about technical debt. Which is basically when you know your code isn’t exactly the best way to do something, but it’s the quickest and you need whatever it is done now, so you take the shortcut understanding you’ll have to come […]
Maria Burns Ortiz
You have a choice. That’s the message behind “Crossroads: A Game of Choices,” a new video game being developed to teach healthy decision making for children of parents struggling with addiction. It seems like a simple message, but it is one kids in these difficult situations do not hear often […]
New Federally Funded Game Aims to Empower Kids to Make ...
Here is the thing about both running a startup and raising a child that people don’t talk about that often. There will be a point where you look around and ask yourself, “What was I thinking getting myself into this?” and “Can we just fast-forward past this stage because I […]
When Your Startup Becomes A Toddler
I spent a few hours yesterday making a new product video for 7 Generation Games. It was an updated one that include footage from our iPad app. And before that I had been working on an umpteenth version of our deck because every time I need a deck – whether […]
Making the Most with What You’ve Got
Last year, I missed my daughter’s Halloween costume contest. I wouldn’t say it seemed like a “big” thing, but it was a thing. Halloween at her school features a class-by-class parade and all the kids march around in their costumes, with a costume contest where they select winners from each […]
Why It’s Not Worth Feeling Guilty
With the release of Making Camp (download it here!), we were recently reflecting on how far we’ve come as a company in the last three-and-a-half years. Startup life is filled with ups and downs and – as Maria and AnnMaria tackle here – some interesting characters to say the least. This […]
7 Things to Never Say to Your Boss
How can we make our games better? That’s one of the two questions we tackle every single day at 7 Generation Games. (The second being “How can we get our games in the hands of as many players as possible?”) And the reality is, part of the answer to the […]
Help us make our games better, and get credit for ...
7 Generation Games is one of the Top 10 finalists for Tech Inclusion’s Startup Showcase Pitch Competition! The event is being held as part of the Tech Inclusion Conference presented by Google for Entrepreneurs in San Francisco, Oct. 26-27. The Startup Showcase highlights “ten outstanding early stage entrepreneurs [who] will […]
We’re in the Tech Inclusion Top 10!
Both my daughters play soccer, so I guess that makes me a “soccer mom.” Now, I suppose this has been the case for the last couple years as my older daughter played soccer since she was 6, but it really shifted this year when she moved up to the U-10 […]
Observations of a “Soccer Mom”
Do you know how many times we’ve heard people say “There just aren’t any Latinos in tech”? Every time this happens, we at 7 Generation Games wave our hands and say, “Hey what about us over here?” (Well, actually AnnMaria waves her hands, stands on a chair and grabs a bullhorn…) […]
Latinos in Tech Meetup on 10/12 in Santa Monica!
Making Camp – the first iPad app from 7 Generation Games – is available in the Apple App Store! You can download “Making Camp” for FREE by going here: Leave us an app review to get a “thank you” shoutout on our More Than Ordinary podcast! Ever since we started working […]
Making Camp is in the App Store!
7 Generation Games president AnnMaria De Mars is at the National Indian Education Association’s annual convention and trade show in Reno, Nevada, where she will be presenting a first look at our newest project “Crossroads: A Game of Choices” with Bruce Gillette from Circle of Life/the Three Affiliated Tribes. If […]