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JAVASCRIPT CONSOLE — Debugging takes up the vast majority of a programmer’s day. Two main tips for making debugging easier are: Break the code into chunks Use developer view Here is an example from the Making Camp Premium game under development. This is a memory game for learning language. Players are given a […]

Debugging Tip from Making Camp

June 2, 2017 in Code Talk / Start-up Diaries / Tech Tips / Women in Tech by AnnMaria De Mars

Hello World! My name is Cyborg Ean (OK, not really, but it’s what my former students call me), and I’m the newest addition to the 7 Generation Games team as a software development intern. When I’m not programming our games or consuming the exquisite novelty that is Thai food, I’m […]

Introducing Hour of Code

January 23, 2017 in 7GenGames / Code Talk / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources / Tech Tips tagged 7 Generation Games / Code Talk / STEM / Tech Tips / twitch tv by Ean Moore

dead guy with buffalo — This is the second post in a series on how to make games with impact.js . You can find the first post here. I know you are getting all excited about making computer games and I am telling you about boring stuff like the file structure – what directories you […]

Learn to make Computer Games: Part 2, Setting Up Impact

December 27, 2016 in AnnMaria / Code Talk / Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars

path to find sound files — Since it is officially a holiday for 7 Generation Games, I am semi-working. What I mean by that is that I’m working but only on what interests me at the moment, which happens to be writing a game using impact and writing about it. I decided to make this a […]

Learn to make computer games: Part 1, Getting Started

December 26, 2016 in AnnMaria / Code Talk / Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars

I’m really excited about the potential in our new iPad app, Making Camp. I’ve been taking an online course on mobile web design and it reminded me of all of the cool features we could use for mobile devices. We could use geolocation to compute distance from where the student […]

Mobile Development and Teachers’ Professional Development

November 2, 2016 in Game Progress / Start-up Diaries / Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars

Accent Mark shown correctly — Since we just had our Latino tech meet up, this seems like the perfect time to give a tech tip on getting those Spanish-language accent marks right in your HTML. Look closely at this image below. It’s part of what was in one of our pretests that assess our game. […]

Tech tip: accent marks for Spanish text

October 13, 2016 in Start-up Diaries / Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars

Life is full of ifs…sounds like the beginning of a cheesy quote. However, I don’t see it that way. I am a developer so I know clearly that life is actually full of if’s and else’s. Before getting to the nitty gritty, I’ll start with an example. Here is a […]

If’s, Else’s, and Pugs! Oh My!

September 21, 2016 in Code Talk / Education: Innovation and STEM / Tech Tips by Luis Ceballos

The path to success is not easy. It’s filled with hard work, late nights and early mornings. To become good at anything it takes time, dedication and desire. If we put this into perspective, every day we are presented with tasks and challenges that enables us to learn new things […]

Computer Programming: The Inspiration and an Introduction

September 6, 2016 in Code Talk / Education: Innovation and STEM / Tech Tips by Jose Sotelo

Gonzalo hard at work — A little background – we have been building our games to run on the web and school computer labs (Mac and Windows) so that we can easily have the educational and game content tested by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of teachers and students. You can buy any of those games here. […]

TECH TIPS : Changing from Web Game to Android

July 24, 2016 in Code Talk / Educational Games / Start-up Diaries / Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars

Choices for Hosting Podcasts There are two main tasks involved in publishing podcasts; the production work involved in actually creating the podcasts, and hosting the podcasts — that is, making the audio program available to users online. This is a brief tech note on how we are performing the second […]

Tech Tips: Hosting Podcasts

July 19, 2016 in Start-up Diaries / Tech Tips by Dennis De Mars

Screen when recording — In our last (which also happened to be our first) Tech Tips newsletter I talked about the hardware we used for podcasting. What about the software? Glad you asked! You could use GarageBand, but I wouldn’t. Although it comes free with a Mac, I had found the sound quality using […]

Tech Tips: Software for Podcast Recording

July 11, 2016 in Start-up Diaries / Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars

menu for simulator showing movement options as if it was an actual phone — The new game we are developing is for iPhones, which presents a very slight problem or two. First, I have very bad eyesight so it is a hardship for me to test on the phone. Second, there are a lot of activities that would be so much simpler if I had […]

Quick Tech Tip: Your iPhone Simulator

July 10, 2016 in Start-up Diaries / Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars