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Welcome to a revolution in educational video gaming! 7 Generation Games makes games incorporating math, Native American history and adventure gaming. Our products are currently used in more than 20 schools and after-school programs. We believe in educating through engaging. Spirit Lake: The Game is commercially available. Our second game, […]

Welcome to a revolution in educational video gaming!

September 19, 2014 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games tagged Adventure Gaming / Fish Lake / Math / Native American History by admin

No matter how hard it looks to make an educational adventure game, it’s even harder than that. The last couple of weeks, I have been at the tiny detail level. You know those really cool things you see made of legos in Legoland? Imagine if you were making one of […]

Building a game one lego at a time

September 13, 2014 in 7GenGames / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

7 Generation Games Blog — Now that our blogging intern, Diana J, has left us and gone back to school, Marisol Castillo Schultz, our Senior Research Associate will be taking a turn filling in on the blogosphere. Although our current games are focused on Native American culture, Marisol has been advocating for a while now […]

Why a math game for ESL students is a great ...

September 9, 2014 in 7GenGames / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

teaching — The new common core standards have statistics first taught in the sixth grade, or so they say. I disagree with this statement because as I see it, much of the basis of statistics is taught in the earlier grades, although not called by that name. Here are just a few […]

Really Teaching Statistics

September 2, 2014 in AnnMaria tagged statistics by AnnMaria De Mars

angry teen — I’m working on a section of a game that teaches fractions. If a player misses the question about where to meet up with the returning hunter, he or she gets sent to study. There is a movie that plays before this about needing to get back to the camp before […]

No wonder kids hate math

September 2, 2014 in AnnMaria tagged Math by AnnMaria De Mars

Deer Scales — This post is neither about weighing deer nor a newly discovered species of deer-fish crossbreed that lives both in the woods and woodland streams The former would be more boring and the latter more interesting so on the average this post is just fine. You know how musicians practice scales […]

Deer Scales

August 31, 2014 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Los Angeles NCLR — With expertise in bilingual education, part of my job here at 7 Generation Games is to not just attend and demonstrate the games at events, but also give my input on where are the appropriate places to spend our limited marketing dollars. The NCLR 2014 (National Council of La Raza) National […]

National Latino Family Expo – great event to attend but ...

August 29, 2014 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Last night we attended the first EdTech LA Meetup at Coworkk (yes, it is spelled “Coworkk”) in Beverly Hills. We met a lot of great people and heard some interesting presentations about some of the projects that other members of the group we we’re working. So what is the EdTech LA Meetup […]

LA Ed Tech Meetup

August 28, 2014 in 7GenGames / Uncategorized by admin

We love our office so much; it is not only the heart of our company, but also the space in which great minds aggregate and dreams, passion, and hard work materialize into educational games that have the potential to make a huge difference in the world! But our time and […]

Come Find Out More About Us!

August 28, 2014 in 7GenGames / Uncategorized by admin

7 Generation Games — In my time so far at 7 Generation Games I’ve had the opportunity to make a number of contributions to the sound of our games, such as: cleaning up and editing voice recordings, creating new sounds for the games, and batch conversion of audio files. My most immediate contribution came […]

Sound editing internship at 7 Generation Games

August 22, 2014 in 7GenGames / Uncategorized by admin

Being an entrepreneur means multi-tasking, so here I am for the second day beta-testing evrybit, attending the Unite 2014 conference and writing this blog while Diana, our blogging intern, is off doing intern things. As far as beta testing, it is good for me to do it for other products […]

Unite 2014 and my second day of Evrybit testing

August 21, 2014 in 7GenGames / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

So, here we are at Unite 2014, the conference for Unity 3 D developers, and I thought it would be a great opportunity to test out Evrybit, a mobile app for journalism. We are constantly begging people to be alpha and beta testers for us, so I thought I would […]

Testing Evrybit at Unite 2014

August 19, 2014 in 7GenGames / Uncategorized by AnnMaria De Mars