Start-up Diaries

It’s a madhouse out there! Even if you don’t have a TV, you can’t escape all of the outrageous headlines and “scratch your head” moments that flood your computer screen, phone or tablet. From the childish antics in politics, to the rude, offensive figures in pop-culture, it seems like the […]

Hear About Our World Domination Plans – And New Podcast!

May 4, 2016 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries tagged Dr. AnnMaria De Mars / Maria Burns Ortiz / Marketing / Podcast / Video Blog / World Domination / YouTube by Erick Salomon

crow — Hangman, a simple yet easy to understand guessing game that is sneakily quite a bit of fun. My earliest memories of hangman were of my 2nd grade teacher assigning each of us a partner and paper of hard (at the time) vocabulary words. For hard words such as “dangerous” and […]

Hangman Pt. 1

May 3, 2016 in Code Talk / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by Luis Ceballos

cat — Well, it’s been a minute. Months ago, I started writing about reusable code and was then interrupted by flying around the country to present game results, getting an alpha version of our Aztech game to testers, getting Forgotten Trail ready for release FRIDAY (!!!) etc. You can read Part 1 […]

Game Design: Reusable Code, Part 2

April 27, 2016 in AnnMaria / Code Talk / Educational Games / Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

I get this question all of the time, What’s it like working with your family? In case you don’t know, the three co-founders of 7 Generation Games are my husband, Dennis, me and my daughter, Maria. It’s not how most people seem to think. First of all, we’re not together […]

What’s it like working with your family? Part 347

April 26, 2016 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Me thinking blah blah blah — Often people say they really support the work that we do, and although I like to be complimented as much as the next person, I am secretly thinking this: It’s sort of like hashtag activism. While tweeting, “Help our schools #education” probably makes a few teachers feel better, it is […]

The Best Ways to Encourage a Start-up Entrepreneur

April 25, 2016 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Last month the 7 Generation Games team attended the California Association of Bilingual Education (CABE) 2016 conference in San Francisco, CA. As part of our presence there, our CEO, Maria Burns Ortiz and educator Jovi Buendia, presented a proposal entitled: Educational Games for ELL: State of the Art. The talk […]

CABE 2016 – Educational Games for ELL: State of the ...

April 14, 2016 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries tagged CABE / CABE 2016 / Educational Games for ELL State of the Art / Jovi Buendia / Maria Burns Ortiz / Powerpoint by Erick Salomon

Enough is enough. I was on Twitter this morning when I was officially pushed over the edge. Here’s the tweet that did it: Edge Retreats gets $1 million to simplify booking of luxury villas https://t.co/QBGoUkw6bI pic.twitter.com/ogsNKYz043 — VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) April 8, 2016 “Now, what’s wrong luxury villas?” You might be […]