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players dead under the night sky — One of those things that is actually FAR more interesting than it sounds is “standards for mathematical practice”. These are things that everyone at every grade should be learning. My favorite (yes, I have a favorite, don’t judge me), is to persevere in solving problems. I am totally convinced that […]

Giving Up Is Not An Option

August 17, 2015 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

For this week’s Freebie Friday, we’re mixing things up. Our CEO’s birthday is tomorrow. Instead of a gifts, AnnMaria asked everyone she knows to donate a game. We thought – in the spirit of Freebie Friday and general birthday fun – that we’d do one better. For every game purchased between […]

Freebie Friday: Happy Birthday to our CEO

August 14, 2015 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday by Maria Burns Ortiz

My oldest daughter started second grade today. On the first morning back to school, she woke up early without taking much nudging. She was up and ready to go in nearly record time. She grabbed her backpack and was in the car with half an hour to spare before the […]

Startups Take Sacrifice

August 14, 2015 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from November 17, 2012, “It’s not the math that’s hard” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. Here is a math problem: Hoksinato and Tasunka Ska are going to steal horses. […]

Throwback Thursday: It’s not the math that’s hard

August 13, 2015 in 7GenGames / Throwback Thursday by admin

pink mouse — One of my favorite cartoons is Pinky and the Brain, which begins every episode with the question, What are we going to do, today, Brain? answered by, “The same thing we do every day, Pinky, take over the world.” So, that is what Maria (also known on twitter as @burnsortiz […]

Taking Over the World

August 11, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

We’ve been sitting on some big news and are thrilled we can finally announce that 7 Generation Games was selected to participate in BoomStartup’s EdTech accelerator! We’ll be spending three of the next 12 weeks in Salt Lake City (two at the beginning of the program and one at the end) […]

Big News: We’re Participating in BoomStartup’s EdTech Accelerator!

August 10, 2015 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

flying chicken — I had a grandchild home from camp with a fever, so she was at my house. If you were in our house that morning, you would have heard this shouted from the downstairs office to the upstairs office. Grandpa! Grandma needs that sound you get when catch a chicken! […]

The Flying Chicken of Failure

August 5, 2015 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

audience at pitch session — I just returned from South by Southwest’s V2Venture conference where I attended the pitch contest, and I left the event thinking — like I do every time I attend a pitch event – how completely subjective pitching is. It depends 100 percent on who you’re pitching to and […]

The Perfect Pitch: (Spoiler! There’s No Such Thing)

August 3, 2015 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Two of our founders are down in Rio for the week. It’s an amazing city with lots to offer – beautiful beaches, good coffee, wonderful people – but there’s admittedly one thing lacking: reliable Internet. Now for most people coming down to Rio, that’s probably not an issue. I mean […]

Rio On Five Megabytes a Day

August 1, 2015 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

We here at 7 Generation Games want to extend our sincere congratulations to our very first game tester, Ronda Rousey, who picked up two wins at last night’s ESPY Awards on ESPN. Long before she was earning the distinction of “Best Fighter” and “Best Female Athlete,” Ronda was giving us […]

7 Generation Games Game Tester Ronda Rousey Wins 2 ESPYs!

July 16, 2015 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

Certain parts of a job can get done with less effort or in less time after you’ve done them a dozen times. Case in point, the image above is from the canoeing scene in Fish Lake. The first time I played that part, I thought I’d never make it down the river […]

When Running a Startup, You Never Slow Down

July 15, 2015 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

We have data to show that kids who play our games improve their math skills substantially. We have anecdotal data (that sounds so much more scientific than “email from players”! ) that tells us adults who play our games improve their math skills. Seriously, if you are over 13 years […]

Podcasts that make you smarter

July 13, 2015 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars