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Interested in game progress at 7 Generation Games? Wondering what we’re doing next? Is there a new update to your favorite games? Check out all the news on game progress here.

girl picking flowers in meadow — They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. So, I thought today I would show you how Fish Lake is progressing from the alpha version to a soon-to-be-released beta version. This is what our Fish Lake start page was. And this is what it will be after I finish […]

Two pictures are worth 2,000 words: Progress on Fish ...

November 29, 2014 in AnnMaria / Dog food / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Tasina - 7 Generation Games — The problem with a start-up is you don’t have defined tasks, defined hours, defined anything really. For the past three days, I have been working on every single page of Spirit Lake: The Game, trying to improve every piece of the game, large and small. I added in the multiplication […]

How much is enough? When is a game ‘good enough’ ...

October 30, 2014 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from November 25, 2012 on “The Benefits of Growing Your Own: The view from the code monkey cage” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. Last week, I wrote about my […]

Throwback Thursday: The view from the code monkey cage

October 23, 2014 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress / Throwback Thursday by AnnMaria De Mars

dog — Interesting that @x4GY has only tweeted 20 times and yet I found one of those tweets very much worth quoting. “It may not be possible to be 100% better than your competition but you can be 1% better in 100 ways.” Even though I am pretty darn far from Gen […]

100 Improvements and a multiplication dog

October 18, 2014 in AnnMaria / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

7GenBanner — To enlarge the map above to a full-screen size, click here. We were updating our list of game licenses to see where our educational video games are being played in the United States and around the world. We discovered that we now have schools and after-school programs playing our games […]

Where in the world is 7 Generation Games?

October 10, 2014 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Game Progress / Math tagged US map of states / Who is playing our games by admin

bass (the fish) — For months we have been working on improvements to our next game, Fish Lake. Day after day, it was like piling up pebbles, fixing this line of code, brushing up that graphic. As usual, the first version had its share of glitches. It seemed like progress was going really […]

Fish Lake Rocks

October 10, 2014 in AnnMaria / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Turbosuid.com is fantastic resource, from which you can browse and download 3D assets. Moreover, many of these are completely free. This has proven extremely helpful in creating the new 3D version of Fish Lake Level 3. We already have some of the objects we need for the two scavenger hunts. […]

Creating Assets With The Help Of TurboSquid

October 6, 2014 in 7GenGames / Game Progress tagged 7 Generation Games / Fish Lake / TurboSquid / Unity by eric

Working in the Unity Editor

September 25, 2014 in 7GenGames / Game Progress tagged 7 Generation Games / Fish Lake / Unity by eric

No matter how hard it looks to make an educational adventure game, it’s even harder than that. The last couple of weeks, I have been at the tiny detail level. You know those really cool things you see made of legos in Legoland? Imagine if you were making one of […]

Building a game one lego at a time

September 13, 2014 in 7GenGames / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

During my summer internship at 7 Generation Games, I was able to practice my passion of teaching mathematics in a unique way. I learned how to create video lessons that focused on different math concepts which were used in computer video games tailored to children. In these videos, I focused […]

Teaching mathematics in a unique way

August 18, 2014 in 7GenGames / Game Progress / Math tagged fractions / Internship / Math by admin

[Note: With Diana J, our blogging intern out sick this week, Eric the Intern, also known as Sound Guy, filled in for her. Thanks to Eric for that.] Sound is often one the most overlooked components of video games, for players and developers alike. One reason for this is that […]

Creating immersive sound for games

July 29, 2014 in 7GenGames / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

What makes a game educational? Dr. AnnMaria De Mars, Dr. Yolanda Venegas, and Marisol Castillo got together to investigate whether popular games are actually helping children to learn and boost scholastic achievement, as well as what it is about these games that makes them either effective or ineffective. To start, […]

Are they really learning? How educational are educational games?

July 3, 2014 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Game Progress by admin