Educational Games

Angie, from Forgotten Trail — Part of making a good game is having believable characters, whether it is Mario, Zelda or the dwarf-hunter in World of Warcraft. If you had watched our Characters Behind the Characters video, you’d know that the voice of Angie is my daughter, Julia De Mars, and the “look” is a […]

Meet Angie: Character development in Forgotten Trail

November 28, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

If you follow this blog somewhat regularly, you may know that we started a software design project with a couple of alternative schools. How is that going? Thanks for asking. It’s going pretty well. The students have come up with a lot of specific suggestions, not just for improving game […]

Game Suggestions from Student Design Teams

November 27, 2017 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / New earth by AnnMaria De Mars

snowy road — During the past few days, I had the opportunity to visit a couple of classrooms on and near the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation and observe their amazing students. We had a report that students were completing the games in half an hour. That didn’t seem possible. We’d had two professional […]

The Amazing Students from Spirit Lake

November 11, 2017 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s time for another Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is from our game Making Camp. The freebie is a video on math terms. The video goes through the definitions of different terms that you should know when it comes to addition, subtraction, and multiplication. The video also gives you examples of […]

Freebie Friday: Making Camp – Math Terms

November 10, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Hello everyone, it’s Friday and that means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from our game Spirit Lake and it’s a video on a problem solving tip. The problem solving tip is to start at the end of the math word problem. Often, the problem that […]

Freebie Friday – Problem Solving Tip: Start at the End

November 3, 2017 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Our company is doing a software design project with students from New Earth school (keep reading to find why this is extraordinary). The students complete a series of assignments to help us do a revision of one of our games. They start by meeting with one of our team members […]

And now for some good news: Software Design with New ...

November 3, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / New earth by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s the end of another week and that means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is related to our game Fish Lake and it’s a game on fractions. This is a link we like and it’s called the FractOne Math Game. Since our game Fish Lake teaches […]

Freebie Friday – FractOne: Math Game

October 27, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Sell the sizzle, not the steak I’ve always hated that Silicon Valley cliche. I know people saying it think they are smartly pointing out that people buy for reasons other than pragmatic ones. We want products that make us feel cool, sexy and superior. That focus on marketing can also […]