Word about our game is getting out. On Saturday, 7 Generation Games was the subject of a feature story that ran in the Jamestown Sun newspaper in Jamestown, ND. From the story: [7 Generation Games] has received more than $500,000 in federal grants to develop these educational games. It has […]
Blogs
We’ll be sending all of our pre-release purchasers a link to a new update this week, just because we want you to have it. What this update includes: Self-install for Windows (no more extracting files, creating your own shortcut). Plus a nice little buffalo icon on your desktop. More sound […]
New Update this Week
Last week, I wrote about work-related burnouts: why people get them and how they may be avoided. This week I decided it would be appropriate to build upon this idea a bit further by discussing an equally important professional skill: goal setting. Now when we think of goals, we often […]
The Intern Diaries: “How to StickK to Your Goals”
We’ll be in San Jose next week meeting with some people about getting the game into their classrooms, but we also want to meet with you! Come to our meetup on Aug. 14 from 6-8 p.m. in San Jose. Hope to see you there.
Join us for our Bay Area meetup on 8/14!
You know, I think we need to find a more user-friendly way to install the game on windows than download this, extract all these files and move this here. When Dennis said this out loud, my initial reaction, was, No shit, Captain Obvious! You might wonder why we were so […]
Ch-ch-ch-changes
Late last week I caught employment’s common cold: “paralysis by analysis.” After several weeks of productive work, I suddenly sensed my motivation beginning to slack. Tasks that usually took me an hour to complete were taking longer; ideas were few and far between; and my vigor all of the sudden […]
The Intern Diaries: “How to Beat Burnouts”
I have written some blog posts in the previous incarnation of this web site, but I guess this is my first post for the official 7 Generation Games blog, so I will start off with a brief introduction for those who are not familiar with my role at 7 Generation […]
Technical Obstacles in the Use of Water in a 3D ...
Whenever I read articles about the need for more diversity in tech start-ups it is with mixed feelings. While I completely agree with the sentiment that we need more than “Zuckerberg clones selling to yuppies”, the typical comment like in this Fast Company article that companies targeting a diverse market […]
We are not a unicorn!
On Thursday, 7 Generation Games sent me on my first-ever networking assignment. Lucky for me, the event I attended was a drinkubator. This made it fun and easy to engage with the other attendees as each new encounter generally prompted the order of another cocktail. “I could get used to […]
The Intern Diaries: “Drinkubator Discoveries”
“Game design is 10% inspiration and 90% staring at math trying to figure out why things don’t work.” Thank you Stephen Mangold @steve85uk on twitter for that almost completely true quote. Actually, it’s more like 10% inspiration, 30% staring at code and 60% a bunch of stuff I hadn’t really […]
The Unexpected Pieces (& People) in Game Design
Here at 7 Generation Games, we’ve been working on perfecting our pitch. Contrary to what it might seem like when you see someone present an outstanding pitch, a pitch that looks effortless is anything but. We all know those people who say, “I don’t want to practice what I’m going […]