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Going through our archives, we came across this great post from April 29, 2012,“Useless & useful advice for SOME small businesses” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. Being sick with only half of my brain cells functioning, I spent the weekend reading […]

Throwback Thursday: Useless & useful advice for SOME small businesses

April 23, 2015 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries / Throwback Thursday / Women in Tech tagged keep the rights / speak your mind / startup advice / Throwback Thursday by AnnMaria De Mars

7 Generation Games is excited to be attending the 8th Annual OLC/MERLOT Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium on April 22-24, 2015 at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas. Earlier this year, 7 Generation Games submitted their application to be apart of the Launch Pad where only 10 educational technology companies […]

Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium

April 23, 2015 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Events / Women in Tech tagged #et4online / 8th Annual OLC/MERLOT Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium / Launch Pad by admin

7 Generation Games — If this is your first visit to our website, thank you for taking the time to read our blog and let us introduce ourselves. We are a company that combines math, Native American history and adventure gaming into our video games. The video clip below demonstrates the (awesome) video games that […]

How 7 Generation Games differs from other companies

April 23, 2015 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Math / Women in Tech by admin

After a hectic three weeks, we completed a successful crowdfunding campaign! We brought in almost 110% of our target of $50,000. After so much hard work, it was time to celebrate as our staff and backers got together at Tom’s Urban at LA Live. If you want to relive the […]

7 Generation Games Celebrates Kickstarter Success

April 18, 2015 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

bad jockey on slow horse — One of the questions that came up during our Kickstarter campaign was whether it was wise to release “sneak peeks” of our game under development, whether that would, in fact, discourage people from backing us because it was less than perfect. My answer was that I believe there are several […]

Why You Shouldn’t Wait for Perfect

April 16, 2015 in AnnMaria / Dog food by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from January 21, 2013,“Things I’ve Learned in (Almost) 55 Years: Post 1 of a bunch” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. I forgot how old I was for a while. Someone […]

Throwback Thursday: Things I’ve Learned in (Almost) 55 Years: Post ...

April 16, 2015 in 7GenGames / Throwback Thursday tagged failure / permanent / perspective / Success / tact / Throwback Thursday by AnnMaria De Mars

Saint Louis, MO – Thursday, April 16th from 7-9pm at Fitz’s | 6605 Delmar Blvd, Saint Louis, MO 63130 Los Angeles, CA – Friday, April 17th from 6-8pm at Tom’s Urban | 1011 S Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015 There is no secret code and it’s free. Just show up and […]

Celebrate with us in Los Angeles and St. Louis

April 15, 2015 in 7GenGames / Events / Women in Tech tagged Kickstarter / Saint Louis / Santa Monica / St. Louis / Thank You by admin

cup cake — Think of all of the time people spend playing games on their phones, computers, Xbox. Yes, everyone. Even you. Now just imagine if all of that time added to what you knew about history, vocabulary and math. How awesome would that be? It would be this awesome. The games we […]

Why I Do What I Do

April 11, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars

Our project manager Jessica is attending EdCamp Long Beach on Sunday and was asking me what to expect as she has never been to one. I’m by no means the EdCamp expert, but I’ve been to a few (EdCamp Los Altos, EdCamp MSP, EdCamp Magnet, EdCamp SF Bay). Here is what I […]

Tips for a Successful EdCamp

April 10, 2015 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Events tagged Ed Camp / EdCamp Long Beach by Maria Burns Ortiz

We’re feeling very grateful lately, given the over $30,000 pledged already on Kickstarter, the over 100 classroom licenses that have been sponsored, the thousands of people playing Fish Lake and Spirit Lake – I could go on. This post is about YOU, though. What can we give you to show […]

Freebie Friday: What Else Can We Do For You?

April 10, 2015 in AnnMaria / Freebie Friday tagged Freebie Friday / Kickstarter by AnnMaria De Mars

Two years ago, we embarked on our first Kickstarter campaign to help fund our first game, Spirit Lake. We didn’t have any idea what we were getting ourselves into. The amount of time it would take. The stress of wondering whether we would hit our goal. The elation over hitting […]

Three Lessons We Learned From Our Last Kickstarter

April 8, 2015 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

brain doing push-ups — We all know that person who was a great athlete in high school or college that we run into ten years later and think, “Dude, what happened to you?” What happened is that he or she got a desk job, quit working out, got fat and out of shape. One of […]

Why I Make Games to Make You Smarter

April 5, 2015 in AnnMaria by AnnMaria De Mars