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Invisible barriers - zoomed out view — Whenever I get irritated by a company’s failure to consider it’s customers, I try to take a lesson from it. For example, I can’t stand software that nags you to download an update every freaking day. Seriously, is your product so bad that I really need to stop what I’m […]

Little Things Add Up

May 19, 2015 in Game Progress / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

You may have seen recent headlines about how a number of Native American actors and consultants walked off the set of an Adam Sandler movie because the content was degrading and insulting to Native people. And yeah, if you read any of the articles, it was that bad – even for what […]

Whether It’s Corporate or Game-Portrayed Culture: If it’s not right, ...

May 15, 2015 in Cultural content / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

2 dogs and a play more button — It’s well-known around here at 7 Generation Games that the first 10-20% of a project is going to take you 40% of the time. Progress is slow while you figure out how to do some task, but once you have that code written, you can reuse it many places. Here […]

Step by Step Guide to Making a Mini-Game: Step 1 ...

May 15, 2015 in AnnMaria / Dog food / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from May 25, 2013,“Don’t Wait Until You’re Perfect” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. I’m not perfect. God am I ever not perfect. I’ve been working on the Spirit Lake Game […]

Throwback Thursday: Don’t Wait Until You’re Perfect

May 14, 2015 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday / Women in Tech tagged being perfect / perfection / Spirit Lake by AnnMaria De Mars

A colleague of mine had this warning sign in her office of the dangers of trying to do too many projects at once: Jugglers don’t get paid very well and sometimes balls hit them in the head. Currently, we have two games on the market and are determined that VERY […]

Jugglers get hit in the head: Lessons for Forgotten Trail

May 13, 2015 in 7GenGames by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from May 16, 2011,“What I learned about statistics from martial arts” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. I’m doing a workshop at the San Diego SAS users group meeting on Wednesday […]

Throwback Thursday: What I learned about statistics from martial arts

May 7, 2015 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday / Women in Tech tagged martial arts / programming / SAS / statistics by AnnMaria De Mars

Woman on rocks in the river — Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to star in a commercial? How much fun would it be to show your family and friends a professionally edited commercial that features none other than YOU? Are you interested yet? If so, read on! This June we are going to release a […]

We want YOU to star in the next 7 Generation ...

May 4, 2015 in 7GenGames tagged commercial / Fish Lake / Spirit Lake by admin

I went into the Community Wellness Forum at United American Indian Involvement in Los Angeles last week uncertain of what to expect. I didn’t know how many people would be attending the session I would lead. I knew many of the event attendees worked in public health, but I didn’t […]

What Happens Is What Is Supposed to Happen: What I ...

May 4, 2015 in 7GenGames / Events / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech by Maria Burns Ortiz

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from April 20, 2012,“Why Business Travelers (and Grandmas) Need an iPad” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. The rocket scientist told me that I am too one-dimensional and write too much about […]

Throwback Thursday: Why Business Travelers (and Grandmas) Need an iPad

April 30, 2015 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged business travelers / grandmas / reasons to own an iPad by AnnMaria De Mars

classroom — Did you know that we are able to offer free game licenses to classrooms in Title I schools, tribal schools, or after school programs that serve Native American students? If you know a teacher or school that could benefit from playing our adventure games, simply email us at: info@7generationgames.com A little […]

Do you know any schools, teachers or after school programs ...

April 29, 2015 in 7GenGames / Educational Games tagged donate a game / Fish Lake / Spirit Lake / Title I School by admin

sunrise — I mentioned to someone this week that if things keep up I will eventually be the worst programmer in the company. (Some of us un-cool people still call ourselves programmers instead of software developers.) She said, You’re okay with that, right? After all, you’re the CEO. For years, I said […]

CEO Doesn’t Mean Having Your Own Way

April 28, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Two of 7 Generation Games founders – our CEO AnnMaria De Mars and our CMO Maria Burns Ortiz – have have spent the last two days in Dallas at the Online Learning Consortium’s International Symposium on Emerging Technologies. It’s been a great experience as 7 Generation Games was one of […]

7 Generation Games Recognized at Emerging Technologies for Online Learning ...

April 23, 2015 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech by Maria Burns Ortiz