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One of the things we’ve learned in making games is that players like games that give them options, so I thought I’d start this blog post by letting you make a choice. Think of it as a (very low budget) choose-your-adventure version of our blog posts. Option 1: You mentioned […]

We Made a Game About How We Make Games!

March 7, 2024 in 7GenGames / Customized Games / Educational Games tagged Customized development / Educational Games by Maria Burns Ortiz

TL;DR – Being specific is a necessary but not sufficient condition for prompts for AI. Including examples in your prompts can work wonders. Now, read on. Let me tell you about one of the worst math games I ever saw. It was used in an alternative high school program for […]

What AI Can Do: Writing Useful Math Word Problems

March 6, 2024 in Educational Games tagged 7 Generation Games / AI / Artificial Intelligence / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Hi! My name’s Aahanaa and I’m an intern at 7 Generation Games. I go to college in Saint Paul but I’m originally from Kolkata, India. Why 7 Generation Games: I knew early on that I had a passion for both art and technology but for a good chunk of my […]

Intern Spotlight: Meet Aahanaa!

February 19, 2024 in Educational Games / Intern Diaries tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / interns by Diana Sanchez

Over the past few years, we have interviewed hundreds of teachers, principals, after-school staff and other experts in education – 100% cited maintaining student attention as a challenge. Across the classes we observed and teachers we interviewed, from Title I schools, from 15-50% of students were not turning in their […]

Warm-up Games and a Math-in-Music Lesson

February 7, 2024 in Educational Games / Educational Resources / Teachers tagged Educational Games / Educational Resources by AnnMaria De Mars

Melvin, our new software development intern, is more than just a gifted coder.

Intern Spotlight: Meet Melvin!

February 5, 2024 in Educational Games / Intern Diaries tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / interns by Diana Sanchez

Welcome to the Bozeman Trail! We’re excited to share this game with everyone. A really cool fact about the Bozeman Trail game is that it comes from an existing board game by Elephanta Education. Working on the Bozeman Trail game was very exciting because of the fact mentioned above, it […]

Welcome to the Bozeman Trail

October 27, 2023 in Educational Games / History tagged Bozeman Trail / Educational Games / history by Diana Sanchez

The Bozeman Trail is a game within the BRAVE series: a game-based, cross-curricular approach to social studies that engages & inspires students to push the boundaries of who they are. What began as a single board game over a decade ago has evolved into something more insightful with every go. […]

Turning School Into a Piece of Cake

October 19, 2023 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / History tagged Bozeman Trail / Educational Games by admin

frank, dog, poodle — Maria Burns Ortiz (our CEO) thinks the term “eating your own dog food” sounds disgusting, so I try to use it as often as possible. Besides, what does a vegetarian know about taste? She also thinks I shouldn’t make comments that could offend significant numbers of potential users, say, vegetarians. […]

Eating our dog food and it’s yummy!

October 13, 2023 in 7Gen Blocks / 7GenGames / Educational Games tagged 7 Gen Blocks / 7 Generation Games / Educational Games by Diana Sanchez

It’s that time of the year. No, not spooky season, although, we do like that time of the year as well. One of our favorite events that we like attending, and have attended in the past, is coming up. Next week is the 54th Annual NIEA Convention & Trade Show! […]

NIEA is Coming Up!

October 12, 2023 in 7GenGames / Conferences / Educational Games tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / NIEA by Diana Sanchez

The ED Games Expo is coming up next week! That’s always an event that 7 Generation Games is happy to be a part of. If you don’t know, the ED Games Expo is the annual public showcase of game-changing education technology (EdTech) innovations created through more than 50 programs at […]

A Jam-Packed Schedule for the ED Games Expo

September 14, 2023 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Events tagged Ed Games Expo / Educational Games by Diana Sanchez

As AnnMaria mentioned in her last blog post, she brought up during the developers’ meeting last week that March 31st is Cesar Chavez Day and that we should have our games free for another month in his honor. Well, I have an update on that today. However, first I want […]

Celebrate Cesar Chavez Day with Us!

March 31, 2023 in 7GenGames / Educational Games tagged 7 Generation Games / Cesar Chavez Day / Educational Games by Diana Sanchez

Many of you have already invested in 7 Generation Games through our Wefunder community round and for that we thank you! If you haven’t yet and would still like to join our 7 Generation Games community by investing or if you would like to spread the word about our wefunder, […]

Last Chance – Our Wefunder is Closing Soon!

January 17, 2023 in 7GenGames / Founders Corner tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games by Diana Sanchez