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7GenBanner — Since it has been about a month and a half into my internship here at 7 Generation Games, I have come across many interesting situations testing Spirit Lake and Fish Lake. One of my first testing concerns was when I needed to exit out of Spirit Lake during the […]

Questions and Answers – Building Blocks of Education

November 13, 2014 in 7GenGames tagged 7 Generation Games / AnnMaria / answers / blog / education / Intern / Math / questions by AnnMaria De Mars

7GenBanner — “We need someone to talk to the students about STEM. Quick, get that one Hispanic lady with a Ph.D. that runs a tech start-up and teaches statistics.” At least, that’s how I imagine that it goes when I keep getting invited to speak at schools – elementary schools, middle schools, […]

The Hardest Part of Educational Games

November 11, 2014 in AnnMaria / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

While there are fantastic middleware tools out there such as Wwise and FMOD, Unity itself enables you to do quite a bit with your sound files. For example, you can adjust distance attenuation, pitch (linked to a time stretch), and automate low-pass filters. So for those that prefer not to […]

Sound Integration In Unity

November 11, 2014 in 7GenGames tagged 7 Generation Games / sound / Unity by eric

7GenBanner — Hi all! It’s Math Monday and it has been a good while since my last post about helpful math sites. This time I took on to Pinterest.com to see what other fun ideas I could find and share. Again I am listing 10 links off Pinterest that I found fun, […]

Fun Math Learning on Pinterest

November 10, 2014 in 7GenGames / Math tagged 7GenerationGames / education / funmath / mathideas / pinterest by Marisol Schultz

UFC women’s bantamweight champion and actress Ronda Rousey raised more than $15,000 to help provide healthcare for uninsured and underinsured patients on Sunday. The event was co-sponsored by 7 Generation Games. The money, which benefits Community Outreach Medical Services in Orange County, will provide healthcare funds for entertainers who lack […]

7 Generation Games Co-Sponsors Ronda Rousey’s “Health Rocks After After ...

November 9, 2014 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

Front page of Spirit Lake — Our latest version of “Spirit Lake: The Game” is now available — and better than ever we might add. As your computers and smartphones are constantly reminding you, every software product — from Microsoft Office to Candy Crush — is constantly issuing updates. There are the little ones that patch […]

Welcome to “Spirit Lake: The Game” Version 4.0!

November 7, 2014 in 7GenGames by Maria Burns Ortiz

Congratulations, you’ve survived another week! And for that, we think that you deserve something special for all of your hard work. This is why 7 Generation Games wants to give you a gift for #FreebieFriday. Did you know 7 Generation Games has a YouTube channel with a ton of great […]

Freebie Friday: Check Out Our Culture Videos

November 7, 2014 in 7GenGames / Freebie Friday tagged Freebie Friday / Knowledge is Power / Native American culture by admin

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from April 15 2012 on, “Start-up truisms that are, well, true” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. The very first month I started this blog, four years ago, I wrote a short […]

Throwback Thursday: Start-up truisms that are, well, true

November 6, 2014 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries tagged entrepreneur / startup by AnnMaria De Mars

7 Generation Games — When planning your sound design, deciding which sounds should be included in the game is often the most important place to start. This is especially true of small or simple games, particularly those with low budgets. It can be easy to get carried away with sound ideas, but it’s very important […]

Sound FX Basics: Where to Start

November 5, 2014 in 7GenGames tagged 7 Generation Games / sound by eric

Earlier this month I attended a Tech Coast Venture Network event on Crowfunding that was hosted by Howard Leonhardt. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this event, but I figured it couldn’t hurt to go listen to some pointers from someone who has raised over $145 million to crowdfund new inventions and startups […]

How to Succeed at Reaching Your Crowdfunding Goal

October 31, 2014 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries / Women in Tech tagged crowdfunding / entrepreneur / Lenard Leonhardt / successful businesses by admin

Tasina - 7 Generation Games — The problem with a start-up is you don’t have defined tasks, defined hours, defined anything really. For the past three days, I have been working on every single page of Spirit Lake: The Game, trying to improve every piece of the game, large and small. I added in the multiplication […]

How much is enough? When is a game ‘good enough’ ...

October 30, 2014 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Educational Games / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Going through our archives, we came across this great post from February 17, 2014 on, “Whatever Happened to Graduate Research?” that we wanted to share with you in case you missed it the first time around. I read this recently in a powerpoint that came with a research methods textbook If answering […]

Throwback Thursday: Whatever happened to graduate research?

October 30, 2014 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged Doctorate Degree / Graduate Research / Graduate Students by AnnMaria De Mars