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Be the solution, not the problem

Sell the sizzle, not the steak I’ve always hated that Silicon Valley cliche. I know people saying it think they are smartly pointing out that people buy for reasons other than pragmatic ones. We want...

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Freebie Friday – FractOne: Math Game

It’s the end of another week and that means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is related to our game Fish Lake and it’s a game on fractions. This is a link we like and it’s called...

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And now for some good news: Software Design with New Earth School

Our company is doing a software design project with students from New Earth school (keep reading to find why this is extraordinary). The students complete a series of assignments to help us do a...

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Freebie Friday – Problem Solving Tip: Start at the End

Hello everyone, it’s Friday and that means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from our game Spirit Lake and it’s a video on a problem solving tip. The problem solving tip is to...

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Freebie Friday: Making Camp – Math Terms

It’s time for another Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is from our game Making Camp. The freebie is a video on math terms. The video goes through the definitions of different terms that you should know...

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The Amazing Students from Spirit Lake

Road to Warwick Public School During the past few days, I had the opportunity to visit a couple of classrooms on and near the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation and observe their amazing students. We had a...

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Get 40% off 7 Generation Games from Black Friday through Cyber Monday!

Forget about battling the holiday shopping crowds. From Black Friday to Small Business Saturday to Cyber Monday, 7 Generation Games is offering a holiday special where you can get 40% off any order by...

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Game Suggestions from Student Design Teams

If you follow this blog somewhat regularly, you may know that we started a software design project with a couple of alternative schools. How is that going? Thanks for asking. It’s going pretty well....

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Meet Angie: Character development in Forgotten Trail

Part of making a good game is having believable characters, whether it is Mario, Zelda or the dwarf-hunter in World of Warcraft. If you had watched our Characters Behind the Characters video, you’d...

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Student design team results, continued

As you know, if you’ve been paying attention, I’ve been meeting the past few weeks with high school students helping to improve the design of our games.  Today, I asked students to submit cards with...

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Teaching Software Design with Writing Prompts

Whether it is teaching statistics, software design or writing, I think you need to remember that everything is easier once you’ve done it a bunch of times. I was talking to a couple of teachers I know...

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Holiday Giving: Any Day is a Great Day to GIVE

Giving Tuesday doesn’t need to be just a single Tuesday thing. I know what you’re thinking, “Giving Tuesday was last week.” I know, but who says that giving has to be restricted to just the Tuesday...

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What to get mom for Christmas

It’s that time of year again and you still have no idea what to get your mother for Christmas. I get it. Your mom is a grown woman. If she wanted something, she’s probably bought it for herself by now....

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Top Reasons to Buy Digital Gifts This Holiday Season

The holidays are coming and you’re probably already stressed out about your Christmas list- family you like, family you dislike, friends, coworkers, teachers, etc. Then, once you buy everything you...

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Designing my way to Chile, Part 1

As  you may have heard, I will be heading to Santiago in about a month to be part of Startup Chile, where I’ll be expanding our line of bilingual games for the Latin American market. First on the...

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Game Design Basics: Assets

I’ll confess right up front that I’m not as organized as I’d like to be when it comes to game design or, well, anything. However, let’s pretend I was. In that case, I’d start out by considering what...

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Eating my own dog food: Learning Spanish from a game

Life is sweet. After months of revisions, translations and testing, Aztech: Meet the Maya will be submitted to the app store by the time I get done drinking this martini. Champagne would be more...

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Throwback Thursday – Demo of Spirit Lake: The Game

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from December 13, 2013 “Demo of Spirit Lake: The Game” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time...

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Freebie Friday – Aztech Clip Art

It’s Friday and that means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday. Today isn’t just any regular Friday, it’s the last Friday of the year! Hope everyone has a great weekend ringing in the new year. But...

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Why I want to talk to teachers

I’m frequently told that I’m wasting my time talking to teachers. Investors tell me that. Other entrepreneurs tell me that. On occasion, even teachers tell me that. Their very logical point is that...

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