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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 ...

August 24, 2021 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / blogposts / Code Talk / Customized Games / DevDiary / Educational Games / Founders Corner / Game Design / Game Progress / Newsletter / Start-up Diaries tagged 7 Generation Games / 7GenGames / Cultural Content / devdiary / entrepreneur / software developer / successful businesses / women-owned business by AnnMaria De Mars

alejandro — 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

August 19, 2021 in 7GenGames / blogposts / Dog food / Educational Games / Game Progress / Intern Diaries / Newsletter tagged 7 Generation Games / 7GenGames / devdiary / intern diaries / Video Game Testing by 7 Generation Games Intern

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

August 18, 2021 in 7GenGames / Code Talk / DevDiary / Educational Games / Game Design / Game Progress tagged 7 Generation Games / Game Design / Game Progress by Christy Hanson

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

Augmented reality app for teaching multiplication — 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

September 9, 2019 in Code Talk / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games tagged augmented reality by AnnMaria De Mars

drag and drop answer — 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

April 23, 2018 in AnnMaria / Code Talk / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

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 ...

December 31, 2017 in AnnMaria / Code Talk by AnnMaria De Mars

In Spanish: When are we? Where are we ? — 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

December 21, 2017 in AnnMaria / Dog food / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Characters on snow background — 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

December 21, 2017 in AnnMaria / Code Talk / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Game Background — 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

December 20, 2017 in AnnMaria / Code Talk / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

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 […]

Simple hover effect without JavaScript

November 26, 2017 in AnnMaria / Code Talk by AnnMaria De Mars

This is one in a series of posts on building an Android app. You can read my previous post on expansion files and AndroidManifest.XML here When you create a new project Android studio will add default libraries to be able to build your application and wrap it as an .apk. […]

Libraries: A key part of building an Android app

July 12, 2017 in Code Talk by AnnMaria De Mars

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