I keep reading that AI enables developers to work 30% ! 50%! 100%! faster. AI can replace junior developers! So far, I have found none of this to be true -until this weekend.
Code Talk
In a recent conversation it became clear to me that I am not very good at explaining how 7 Generation Games is a profitable and growing business. That probably was made worse by the fact that we are re-releasing two of our apps using different technology to be able to […]
How we make money when content is not ours to ...
Hi, my name is Alberto and I am a sophomore in high school. 7 Generation Games has been my first actual job experience and so far I have been enjoying it. The people here have been really helpful in helping me learn new skills. As an intern my job is […]
Being a video game tester
As of 8/13/2021, our two augmented reality apps that are currently being updated are as follows: Counting by Two Languages – Android & iOS Math: The Universal Language – Lakota – Android These versions of the app are under construction. You won’t be able to access them until construction is […]
Two AR Apps Under Construction
1 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
1 TL; DR Our app gave the correct answer 99% of the time. So we spent days creating a new app to teach multiplication in English and Lakota that is 100% accurate. Dennis wrote a script to check the answer produced when you hold the phone over one of the cards […]
When 99% isn’t good enough for our students
In my last post, I talked about how good educational games aren’t that easy to make because education isn’t that simple. Today, I want to revisit the same math concept, that division is multiplication in reverse, but from a programming standpoint. First, the setup. The first part sets the number […]
A simple little math problem isn’t so simple
Here’s the problem – at the start of Aztech: The Story Begins, the characters are in a history classroom and have to take a pop quiz. Players click on a highlighted word and three choices appear for definition. Clicking on the wrong definition turns the word red and plays a […]
Solving the monkey click problem: Easiest way to temporarily disable ...
Life is sweet. After months of revisions, translations and testing, Aztech: Meet the Maya will be submitted to the app store by the time I get done drinking this martini. Champagne would be more appropriate but it was after midnight when we made the last mandatory change and all the […]
Eating my own dog food: Learning Spanish from a game
I’ll confess right up front that I’m not as organized as I’d like to be when it comes to game design or, well, anything. However, let’s pretend I was. In that case, I’d start out by considering what assets I need for the Caves and Ladders game I discussed in […]
Game Design Basics: Assets
As you may have heard, I will be heading to Santiago in about a month to be part of Startup Chile, where I’ll be expanding our line of bilingual games for the Latin American market. First on the agenda is to do a Latin American version of Making Camp. The […]
Designing my way to Chile, Part 1
I am sure that I should be writing a post to tell you all to buy our games, that it is Black Friday , Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday or whatever and your grandma doesn’t need another half-dozen coffee cups. For God’s sake , the woman has been on this […]