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This category is for posts written by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars.

dead guy with buffalo — This is the second post in a series on how to make games with impact.js . You can find the first post here. I know you are getting all excited about making computer games and I am telling you about boring stuff like the file structure – what directories you […]

Learn to make Computer Games: Part 2, Setting Up Impact

December 27, 2016 in AnnMaria / Code Talk / Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars

path to find sound files — Since it is officially a holiday for 7 Generation Games, I am semi-working. What I mean by that is that I’m working but only on what interests me at the moment, which happens to be writing a game using impact and writing about it. I decided to make this a […]

Learn to make computer games: Part 1, Getting Started

December 26, 2016 in AnnMaria / Code Talk / Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from January 13, 2014 “You haven’t learned it unless you can do it“ that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. It’s now day five of the 20-day blogging challenge, […]

Throwback Thursday: You haven’t learned it unless you can do ...

December 22, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

We’ve spent months improving the artwork, educational resources and videos in Fish Lake. We released it on Steam on Friday and had two gamers stream it on Twitch in the first four days. What do we do next? Improve it more. Watching Jessamyn and Shayna play made obvious some additional […]

What do you do after you’ve dramatically improved your game?

December 21, 2016 in AnnMaria / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from December 11, 2013 “How to hold a job, raise a family and still be sane by graduation“ that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. It had been a […]

Throwback Thursday: How to hold a job, raise a family ...

December 15, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria De Mars / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

Moving a snake across a page

December 13, 2016 in AnnMaria / Code Talk by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from December 18, 2013 “The Mid-Life Pivot (Don’t Call It a Crisis)“ that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Perhaps people wouldn’t be so hesitant to change careers during […]

Throwback Thursday: The Mid-Life Pivot (Don’t Call It a Crisis)

December 8, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged 7 Generation Games / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

students — Being snowed in at the Spirit Lake resort, with nowhere to go, I was reading a book, Startup Mixology, during lunch. The author discusses the importance of finding a co-founder with whom you can be completely honest. He stressed, you don’t need to always agree but you do need to […]

Maria probably disagrees with this post

December 6, 2016 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

We made Giving Tuesday into Giving December and until December 31 we at 7 Generation Games will match every donation. Today, someone who donated three games asked me how we decide who gets the games and how they know to ask us for a game. For individual donations, our first […]

How do you decide who to give your games?

November 30, 2016 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

First, you need a few images . Second, open Photoshop and from the FILE menu pick SCRIPTS and the LOAD FILES INTO STACK. Select your files and then click OK The timeline window is probably already open at the bottom of your Photoshop window. If you don’t see it, […]

Super easy animation with photoshop and javascript: part 1

November 30, 2016 in AnnMaria / Code Talk by AnnMaria De Mars

Steam is: A) The result when water is heated above 212 degrees B) An acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics C) A platform for computer games When I tell people that I have been pretty much invisible lately because I’ve been getting Fish Lake ready for Steam they […]

You think you know what Steam is, but you don’t

November 21, 2016 in AnnMaria / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Me, 2 granddaughters and a moose — Recently, I had lunch with someone interested in founding a start-up. She asked me how much time I was able to spend on development each week, as opposed to meeting with investors, interviewing prospective employees, budgets, etc. She’d heard of founders who started a company because they wanted to develop […]

What Exactly Did You Expect from Start-up Life?

November 17, 2016 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars