I’ve spent a good bit of my life living and working in places that many of my colleagues would not drive through in the middle of the day with the windows rolled up and the car doors locked, so you’ll have to excuse me if I am a bit cynical […]
Education: Innovation and STEM
If this is your first visit to our website, thank you for taking the time to read our blog and let us introduce ourselves. We are a company that combines math, Native American history and adventure gaming into our video games. The video clip below demonstrates the (awesome) video games that […]
How does 7 Generation Games differ from other companies?
Tonight 7 Generation Games took an hour out of our busy schedule to join an interactive discussion on how to use mobile for business growth. Latinos in Tech Innovation and Social Media, Mobile Future, the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) and Social Lens Research shared recent stats from the Hispanic Business Growth […]
Hispanic Business Growth and the Mobile Future Twitter Party
The last post was hopefully a titillating introduction to Dr. AnnMaria De Mars, Dr. Yolanda Venegas, and Marisol Castillo’s research. More on their investigation of what makes a good game here! They found that there are certain features that make particular games more effective than others, a couple of which are proudly […]
Are they really learning? How educational are educational games continued.
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?
In my last post, I talked about making educational games that are educational. When game designers and programmers create math games, they often have little idea of what math children are learning in a given grade, in what order, nor what types of hints to provide. In short, unsurprisingly, the […]
Making Educational Games That Are Games
I’ll be speaking at the Serious Play conference next month on Making Educational Games That Add Up . My basic premise is that too often educational games are designed by gaming companies, in which case they are not very educational, or by educators , in which case, they are not […]
Making Educational Games That Are Educational
THROW BACK THURSDAY This post is was written on July 6, 2011, by Dr. Erich Longie, Senior Cultural Consultant for 7 Generation Games. Erich is part of the founding team of 7 Generation Games and oversees our cultural staff to ensure all cultural content is vetted and historically and culturally accurate. […]
National Indian Education Study – more culture = lower math ...
Have you ever thought about how many parts there are in a computer game? You need artwork – every single scene has, well, a scene. You need a background. Then you need characters, people, zombies, whatever. You need a story line. It can be simple – the zombies are going […]
Squirting in the education
This week, we attended a two-day event for winners of the USDA Small Business Innovation Research awards. In a nutshell, the SBIR awards are given in two phases. The first phase is $100,000 for eight months to develop a prototype. That’s the money USDA gives you, you can spend more […]
What Happens When You Get a Group of Innovative Companies ...
It has been a year and three days since we formed 7 Generation Games as a partnership. We should be incorporated in the state of California very shortly. All of our spare time – as well as the time we haven’t been able to spare – has been devoted to […]