Teachers are awesome – and let’s be honest, they don’t always get a lot of gratitude. There are days when, after a full day in the classroom, they feel like Miesha Tate’s arm after a fight with Ronda Rousey, and yet, they get up the next day and go out […]
Maria Burns Ortiz
Our latest trip to North Dakota made the news. WDAZ’s Adam Ladawig stopped by the check out what we’ve been up to and do a story on Spirit Lake: The Game. Watch and/or read the story on WDAZ’s website.
7 Generation Games Featured on WDAZ
Talk about a big week. Sorry for our blogosphere silence, but we’ve been on the road with key members of our 7 Generation Games staff in North Dakota this week. Our CEO, Dr. AnnMaria De Mars, our CMO, Maria Burns Ortiz, and our cultural consultant, Dr. Erich Longie, spent the […]
7 Generation Games Travels to ND
We’re also going to give a pair of completely unpaid endorsements here. Our Belcourt meeting was held at K & J Espresso Cafe, which was great. If you’re ever near Belcourt and looking for good coffee, this is the place to go. Now, you might be thinking to yourself, “Well, […]
An Off-the-Beaten-Path Visitors Guide to ND
How would you like to become a character in Spirit Lake: The Game? Now you can. In short, go here, read this awesome post, leave a comment (or as many comments are you want) and hope you get picked. We’d like to take credit for this incredible contest, but the […]
‘Skulduggery’ Author Hosts Spirit Lake Contest
We recently realized we had reached the point where we needed a professional logo. This isn’t necessarily as a major business milestone, but we find it to be a slightly significant moment in 7 Generation Games history. It marks the point where we realized that we’re getting so big that […]
Unveiling Our New Logo
One of the biggest changes since hiring a CMO is the amount of things that were once on our “if we had someone, this would be great to do” list that we are actually now able to do. We ran our Kickstarter campaign that raised over $21,000 in 21 days. […]
Picking Up Speed: Accelerators and Rejection
The beta version logins of Spirit Lake: The Game have been sent out to everyone who pledged $15 or more to our Kickstarter campaign. (If you backed us and did not receive your login/password, please let us know. You can email us at feedback@7generationgames.com — and we’ll make sure […]
The Next Step: Kickstarter Beta Logins
Big news! We’ve been selected to demo our game at the MIT (yes, that MIT) Enterprise Forum’s In-NOW-vation showcase on April 25, 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. More than 100 companies applied for the 30 demo spots, and we were one of the companies chosen! (See, those MIT folks are smart.) The […]
In-NOW-vation Showcase & World Domination
We spent our Easter working on Easter eggs. No, not the pastel left by a bunny kind. This kind. (Easter eggs being a gaming term that refers to an intentional hidden feature in a video game.) We wanted to add an element of the unexpected into the game. After all, […]
Easter Eggs (Not the Holiday Kind)
If you recall, a few weeks back we posted Part I of our Developer Diary by our senior developer Dennis DeMars. The first part was a transcription of our original white paper stating the criteria. This go round, Dennis gives us what he calls “a brief summary of our results […]
Developer Diary, Part II: Getting Results
Thinking of the hard questions If you follow us on social media, you’re aware of our recent Kickstarter campaign. As part of organizing that, we had to address project risks and challenges. We needed to ask ourselves the hard questions: What risks did our project involve? (“Lose money” risks, not […]