AnnMaria
@drannmaria.bsky.social
I make educational games and the tools to make them. Also, teach statistics, epidemiology and, occasionally game design. First American to win the world judo championships. Yes, I’m multi-talented.
On the Professor Game podcast, Matt Dalio said ..
“If you could be profitable, even if it’s just barely profitable, then it allows you to live forever. And then it allows you to grow and crescendo upon something very real.”
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“If you could be profitable, even if it’s just barely profitable, then it allows you to live forever. And then it allows you to grow and crescendo upon something very real.”
tinyurl.com/tewecant
Paying technical (and other) debt: Non-sexy but happy times
“If you could be profitable, even if it’s just barely profitable, then it allows you to live forever. And then it allows you to grow and crescendo upon something very real.” Matt Dalio Since 7…
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December 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
On the Professor Game podcast, Matt Dalio said ..
“If you could be profitable, even if it’s just barely profitable, then it allows you to live forever. And then it allows you to grow and crescendo upon something very real.”
tinyurl.com/tewecant
“If you could be profitable, even if it’s just barely profitable, then it allows you to live forever. And then it allows you to grow and crescendo upon something very real.”
tinyurl.com/tewecant
Free cheeseburgers. No, actually it's a free book of our family texts, The Family Textbook. I give a lot to charity, including this week when I am inundated with requests. I'm sure you are all, too, so I thought I would give everyone here that follows me a free book. drive.google.com/file/d/1vVpl...
December 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Free cheeseburgers. No, actually it's a free book of our family texts, The Family Textbook. I give a lot to charity, including this week when I am inundated with requests. I'm sure you are all, too, so I thought I would give everyone here that follows me a free book. drive.google.com/file/d/1vVpl...
A year ago, I wrote about AI apps. Today, I revisited that post. It began: It seems the world is divided into two camps, those who believe we'll be replaced by a horde of AI overlords & those who think the whole thing is the 2024 version of Bored Ape NFTs.
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Firefly: One of two great uses for AI
Adobe Firefly, when combined with 7 Gen Blocks, makes it possible to make educational games in a fraction of the time. This post was from a year ago. Has my opinion changed?
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December 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A year ago, I wrote about AI apps. Today, I revisited that post. It began: It seems the world is divided into two camps, those who believe we'll be replaced by a horde of AI overlords & those who think the whole thing is the 2024 version of Bored Ape NFTs.
www.7generationgames.com/firefly-one-...
www.7generationgames.com/firefly-one-...
How is becoming a world #judo champion like creating a platform to make educational #games ? Let me count the ways .... 1 www.7generationgames.com/3-ways-becom...
3 Ways Becoming a World Champion is Like Making a Game Builder: Part 1
Before I started my first company, before I earned a Ph.D. , I was a judo champion. I competed for 14 years – and I was pretty good at it. I won international competitions on every continent except…
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November 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
How is becoming a world #judo champion like creating a platform to make educational #games ? Let me count the ways .... 1 www.7generationgames.com/3-ways-becom...
Did you know you can get free professional development on making educational games from 7 Generation Games? Well, now you do - www.7generationgames.com/get-free-pro...
Get Free Professional Development on Making Educational Games
Are you an educator who wants to replace boring worksheets and workbooks with games you can make yourself, as easy as writing a blog post? Sign up for a workshop for our no-code builder.
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November 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Did you know you can get free professional development on making educational games from 7 Generation Games? Well, now you do - www.7generationgames.com/get-free-pro...
I had 15K followers on the site-known-as-twitter and less than 300 here. Don't know how to get out information on what 7 Generation Games is doing and build up the same following. Here are 2 lessons from teachers in our summer workshop + 2 educational games www.7generationgames.com/two-new-educ...
November 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I had 15K followers on the site-known-as-twitter and less than 300 here. Don't know how to get out information on what 7 Generation Games is doing and build up the same following. Here are 2 lessons from teachers in our summer workshop + 2 educational games www.7generationgames.com/two-new-educ...
The number one request we get from teachers is to make a game for younger children. So far, the lowest level of math we cover is multiplication, in Making Camp Ojibwe & Making Camp Premium. Doing a game now, Powwow Stands, to practice addition.
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The number one request we get from teachers is to make a game for younger children. So far, the lowest level of math we cover is multiplication, in Making Camp Ojibwe & Making Camp Premium. Doing a game now, Powwow Stands, to practice addition.
What I've been up to lately - Housekeeping a.k.a repaying technical debt, fixing Unity bugs and cranking out new games at warp speed thanks to 7 Gen Blocks
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Housecleaning, Unity Bugs and Speed Development
Starting with the happy news. Our 7 Gen Blocks platform has made it possible for us to create games at a far faster pace and lower cost. Check out six educational games we made in the past year thanks...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
What I've been up to lately - Housekeeping a.k.a repaying technical debt, fixing Unity bugs and cranking out new games at warp speed thanks to 7 Gen Blocks
www.7generationgames.com/housecleanin...
www.7generationgames.com/housecleanin...
I can't be the only person who finds fixing bugs relaxing.
November 20, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I can't be the only person who finds fixing bugs relaxing.
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Who made this? 🤣🤣🤣
November 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Who made this? 🤣🤣🤣
Fixed the Unity bugs, uploaded our sixth game in the past year (actually 8th, six under the 7 Gen Games label) and the game builder is on schedule and we did it all while working from #placencia #belize www.linkedin.com/pulse/speed-...
Speed Development, Housecleaning & Unity Bugs
Starting with the happy news. Our 7 Gen Blocks platform has made it possible for us to create games at a far faster pace and lower cost.
www.linkedin.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Fixed the Unity bugs, uploaded our sixth game in the past year (actually 8th, six under the 7 Gen Games label) and the game builder is on schedule and we did it all while working from #placencia #belize www.linkedin.com/pulse/speed-...
Games completed so far from the Library of Congress grant. The first game we did it as part of the Global Game Jam with a teacher who wanted a game that included math and history and could be played equally by blind and sighted children.
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www.7generationgames.com/games-teachi...
Games Teaching Indigenous & Rural History with Primary Sources
Thanks to the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant from the western region, we were able to meet with cohorts of teachers to co-design games. The first six are completed with two…
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November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Games completed so far from the Library of Congress grant. The first game we did it as part of the Global Game Jam with a teacher who wanted a game that included math and history and could be played equally by blind and sighted children.
www.7generationgames.com/games-teachi...
www.7generationgames.com/games-teachi...
Thought I would get back to posting. Here are some things I have been up to - made 2 new educational games - www.7generationgames.com/two-new-educ... about plant knowledge and generosity
Two new educational games, lessons and a game builder
I read that company newsletters should not be about your products because no one cares. I disagree, We have cool new games that help you teach history with math and science, and both are free.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Thought I would get back to posting. Here are some things I have been up to - made 2 new educational games - www.7generationgames.com/two-new-educ... about plant knowledge and generosity
My Ted Talk is up . youtu.be/7v4C0UzdkZo What we talk about at the secret world champions meetings
What we talk about at the secret world champions' meetings | AnnMaria De Mars | TEDxFargo
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November 1, 2025 at 4:30 AM
My Ted Talk is up . youtu.be/7v4C0UzdkZo What we talk about at the secret world champions meetings
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Why I created an AI agent and then rewrote the whole thing using our own code. Two words: time, money - www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-num...
AI Numbers that Don’t Make Sense
While Alice in Wonderland may have been able to believe several impossible things before breakfast, I personally have a hard time reconciling the hype around AI coding. Major companies like Microsoft,...
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October 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Why I created an AI agent and then rewrote the whole thing using our own code. Two words: time, money - www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-num...
I love this lesson plan on Chokecherries and Fractions for so many reasons. www.growingmath.org/chokecherrie... It also includes a lot on teaching vocabulary, reading, Lakota culture and Lakota language. There is an optional but highly recommended cooking activity.
Chokecherries and Fractions | Growing Math
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October 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I love this lesson plan on Chokecherries and Fractions for so many reasons. www.growingmath.org/chokecherrie... It also includes a lot on teaching vocabulary, reading, Lakota culture and Lakota language. There is an optional but highly recommended cooking activity.
How do you get back the time you spend on social media? Here are three tips that work for me. www.lifeondemars.com/2025/10/16/l...
Lost time and how to get it back – Life on De Mars
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October 16, 2025 at 3:27 AM
How do you get back the time you spend on social media? Here are three tips that work for me. www.lifeondemars.com/2025/10/16/l...
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Sen. Kaine: We could open this government and get the funding done in 36 hours if Trump would just engage rather than spending time with the Argentine president and cutting a deal with the Qataris. America first, folks. Let's get government open and bring people's healthcare costs down
October 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Sen. Kaine: We could open this government and get the funding done in 36 hours if Trump would just engage rather than spending time with the Argentine president and cutting a deal with the Qataris. America first, folks. Let's get government open and bring people's healthcare costs down
www.lifeondemars.com/2025/10/15/f... I wrote about "found time" in our linked in newsletter and so many people commented on it that I wrote a blog about found time and grabbed time
Found time and grabbed time – Life on De Mars
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October 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
www.lifeondemars.com/2025/10/15/f... I wrote about "found time" in our linked in newsletter and so many people commented on it that I wrote a blog about found time and grabbed time
Are you going to be at AATC in Minneapolis next week? Just got off call with Dan Conn and our presentation on Combining Primary Sources and #AI to Co-design Games on #Indigenous and #Rural #History is going to be the most fun at the conference. How could it not be, it involves playing #games
October 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Are you going to be at AATC in Minneapolis next week? Just got off call with Dan Conn and our presentation on Combining Primary Sources and #AI to Co-design Games on #Indigenous and #Rural #History is going to be the most fun at the conference. How could it not be, it involves playing #games
Woohoo - 7 Generation Games won the Latinx EdTech Summit for K12 applications for our 7 Gen Blocks
September 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Woohoo - 7 Generation Games won the Latinx EdTech Summit for K12 applications for our 7 Gen Blocks
What do you do when you have too much to do? Remember that jugglers don’t get paid too often and sometimes the balls hit them in the head. Apologies if there are some typos in this because I finished it while waiting for Pitch Latino to start - www.7generationgames.com/startup-jugg...
Startup Juggling Act: How do you find the time
Right now, I’m finishing one of four games remaining on a contract. I’m happy to do it and it’s very fun. I’m also creating two sites for two different contracts for collecting assessment data.
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September 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
What do you do when you have too much to do? Remember that jugglers don’t get paid too often and sometimes the balls hit them in the head. Apologies if there are some typos in this because I finished it while waiting for Pitch Latino to start - www.7generationgames.com/startup-jugg...
Went on @kickstarter.com since I hadn't been there in a while & I don't want to be a hypocrite when we had 3 successful Kickstarter campaigns, so just picked a cute game and backed it www.kickstarter.com/projects/tla...
Super Blowfish Castle
A cozy chaotic puzzle-solving platformer starring a tiny little blowfish.
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September 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Went on @kickstarter.com since I hadn't been there in a while & I don't want to be a hypocrite when we had 3 successful Kickstarter campaigns, so just picked a cute game and backed it www.kickstarter.com/projects/tla...
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