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Work With Filament Games: How to Get Hired Series Roundup

Filament Games wouldn’t be what it is today without our team! We’re an eclectic group of professionals with a passion for learning. We strive to improve constantly, be playful, and make space for life. We also believe that when we succeed, we succeed together. These are not just our core values – these beliefs make…

February 14, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling

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How to Get Hired at a Game Studio: Production Edition 2021

In our How to Get Hired Series, we interview hiring managers all about their departments, their best practices for success at Filament Games, and qualities in applications and applicants that make an impression. For this installment in the 2021 reboot of this series, we interviewed Shaina Peshkov, our Studio Operations Director. Shaina manages the Production,…

December 6, 2021 // Shaina Peshkov

How to Get Hired at a Game Studio: Game Designer Edition 2021

In our How to Get Hired series, we interview hiring managers all about their departments, their best practices for success at Filament Games, and qualities in applications and applicants that make an impression. For this installment in the 2021 reboot of this series, we interviewed Chief Creative Officer, Dan Norton! See our previous How to…

November 24, 2021 // Dan Norton

How to Get Hired at a Game Studio: Art Edition 2021

In our How to Get Hired Series, we interview hiring managers all about their departments, their best practices for success at Filament Games, and qualities in applications and applicants that make an impression. For this installment in the 2021 reboot of this series, we interviewed Art Manager Brandon Korth! See our previous How to Get…

November 8, 2021 // Brandon Korth

How to Get Hired at a Game Studio: Game Engineer Edition 2021

In our How to Get Hired Series, we interview hiring managers all about their departments, their best practices for success at Filament Games, and qualities in applications and applicants that make an impression. For our first installment in the 2021 reboot of this series, we interviewed Gene Cook, our Game Engineering Manager. See our previous…

November 3, 2021 // Gene Cook

Top 10 Reasons to Work at Filament Games in 2021

So, you want to work at Filament Games? There’s a lot to love about a career at our studio… 10) We work with world-class organizations. FIRST, Scholastic, PBS, Oculus, Columbia University, McGraw-Hill Education, iCivics…and the list goes on. Our 15+ years of creating outstanding learning games has built our reputation as a national leader in…

September 27, 2021 // Brandon Pittser

Come Work With Filament Games – We’re Hiring!

Want to work at Filament Games? Join us on our mission to create playful experiences that improve people’s lives – we’re hiring!

March 18, 2020 // James LaPierre

How to Get Hired at a Game Studio: UX Designer Edition

The Role of a Visual Interaction Designer at Filament A number of months ago I received an email inquiry seeking advice on how to become a Visual Interaction Designer (otherwise referred to as a User Experience Designer, or UX for short) at Filament Games. This request came from Brandon Korth, who has since become a…

April 11, 2018 // Alex Yaeger

Resource Roundup: How to Get Hired at a Game Studio

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) reports that the US video game industry generated $36 billion in revenue in 2017, a growth of 18% from the prior year. With 2,000+ video game developers and publishers directly employing over 65,000 individuals across all 50 U.S. states (seriously, find out who’s near you using this handy interactive map),…

March 26, 2018 // James LaPierre

How to Get Hired at a Game Studio: Game Designer Edition

Let’s talk about design as a job! People like to think that designers are a job defined by having neat ideas. They sit on a cushion, think of game…stuff, maybe even write it down. The developers gather around, consume the documents, eager to fulfill the prophecies from their glorious leader, and eventually, the designer is…

January 17, 2018 // Dan Norton

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