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Recently, we announced the partnership between Strong Mind Strong Body Foundation and 7 Generation Games to provide free educational resources to students in order to help them face: risk of child sexual abuse, exposure to domestic violence in the home, and creating a safety plan among others. We had several […]

Crossroads Games for Healthy Choices: New Android Apps & Lessons

June 18, 2021 in 7GenGames / blogposts / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Game Design / Game Progress / Newsletter tagged 7 Generation Games / Crossroads Games / Educational Games / mental health / The Julia Group by Daniel Mondaca

robots loose in the Time Travel Academy — In my last post, I got most of the Killer Robots game laid out. I did the following: Decided on a story line Got the artwork Created the first screen, the classroom Wrote a function to get the robots to move and another function to get the robots to turn […]

Game design steps with killer robots

September 20, 2020 in Code Talk / Game Design tagged Game Design by AnnMaria De Mars

Kids in game design course — Today, after a splendid time developing games, the 7 Generation Games summer game design team, taught by Dr. De Mars and Maria Burns Ortiz, was ready to share their design project developed over the course of two weeks: the dogcatcher game! The students planned for a 2D kingdom of dogs […]

Game Design Class Pt. 5: Final Project

July 24, 2020 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Game Design by Christy Hanson

So, we’ve covered design, art, sound, coding, and management. What could possibly be left? “Games are never finished, they’re just abandoned.” One of the most accomplished game developers I ever met told me that. What he meant was that there is always some way you could make your game better. […]

Game Design Class Pt. 4: What’s left?

June 22, 2020 in Educational Games / Game Design by AnnMaria De Mars

Diagram of functional software architecture used in game design course — If you’ve been following along, you’ve learned about game testers, designers, project managers and the creative director. You’ve met the audio engineer and artists/ animators. Now it’s time for my favorite people on the team because that includes me – the developers! (I have just been informed by Maria that […]

Game Design Class Pt. 3: Developer

June 19, 2020 in Educational Games / Game Design by AnnMaria De Mars

Secret service agent getting game design mission — The second week of game design class begins with sound and art. Did you know sound can make a game look better? Really.

Game Design Class Pt. 2: Audio, Art and Animation

June 18, 2020 in Educational Games / Game Design tagged Audio / sound in games by AnnMaria De Mars

Game design from last's years class - room search — When I was a kid, I had no idea what those people in shiny office buildings downtown actually did. Whether we’re talking about rural towns in the Midwest or south Los Angeles, I know many students who are in the same boat with the same question: What IS an audio […]

Game Design Class Pt. 1: Team Roles

June 16, 2020 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Game Design / Remote Education tagged Game Design / learning at home by AnnMaria De Mars

No one is searching for a walking robot on teachers pay teachers — Did you know that 7 Generation Games offers a game design curriculum? If your school licenses our games, you can get it for free, all you need to do is ask. If you talk to Maria or me, you probably don’t even need to ask because we can’t wait to […]

Get Your Kids into STEM Through Game Design

July 19, 2018 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Game Design / Remote Education tagged Game Design / learning at home / STEM by AnnMaria De Mars

Ideas, vision, — In the last post, we talked about our short term plans. We think it’s important to have practical, attainable goals that we will actually meet in the relatively near future. But we’re also thinking big. We’ve sat down and looked at not just what we’re going to do next, but […]

Long Term Vision

February 4, 2013 in 7GenGames / Game Design / rural education / Uncategorized tagged Game Design / Game Improvements by Maria Burns Ortiz