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A 2021 Holiday Buyer’s Guide to Educational Games ✨🎁

It’s that time of year again. With each day that passes, we get closer to everyone’s favorite holiday – Toy Day! But even if you’re not planning on spending your holidays running errands for a reindeer named Jingle who is incompetent at his job (seriously – who forgets wrapping paper when their job is delivering…

December 13, 2021 // Alyssa Froehling

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5 More Great Music Education Games

As a kid, I spent too much time playing Rock Band and not enough time practicing my actual guitar. Perhaps an educational game would have been the perfect middle ground to keep me motivated to learn an instrument – which is why today, we are doing another installment on music education games! via Giphy Though…

December 8, 2021 // Alyssa Froehling

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

What’s New in Game-based Learning – December 2021

It may be hard to believe, but 2021 is almost behind us! Let’s not get too ahead of ourselves, though – we have a whole month left until we ring in a new year. With every new month comes a new round-up of game-based learning news that you don’t want to miss! via Giphy The…

December 1, 2021 // Alyssa Froehling

Game-based Learning and Passion-based Learning

I think this is it. I think we’ve found it. A duo to rival the widely heralded perfect pair, game-based learning and STEM. What duo is this, you ask? Game-based learning and passion-based learning. via CBR Pictured from left to right: Passion-based learning, game-based learning, and STEM What is passion-based learning? We’re not referencing the…

November 29, 2021 // Alyssa Froehling

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

A Video Game for Designing Robots, with Dan White (Podcast)

Interested in learning more about RoboCo and the future of digital robotics? You’re in luck! CEO Dan White and Pius Wong, mechanical and biomedical engineer of Pios Labs in Austin, TX, met to discuss our favorite wholesome sandbox robotics game and more on a new episode of The K12 Engineering Education podcast! In the episode,…

November 22, 2021 // Alyssa Froehling

CEO Interview: The Past, Present, and Future of Scholastic Esports

For today’s blog, we sat down with CEO Dan White to discuss the up-and-coming realm of scholastic esports. Read on for Dan’s thoughts on the present and future status of esports, how educational content fits into esports, and how games like RoboCo work to bridge the advantages of physical robotics with the strengths of digital…

November 17, 2021 // Dan White

Filament Games is now a Roblox Developer!

Roblox, the global online platform and content creation system sensation, just announced its ambitious foray into online interactive educational experiences, and Filament Games is THRILLED to be part of this rollout! Say WHAT? How did this happen? Over the past several months, Filament Games has been in deep R&D mode, meeting with the Roblox Education…

November 15, 2021 // Jennifer Javornik

Educational Games and Media Literacy

There is a lot of data on the internet. Like, a lot. It comes as no surprise that not every 🔥hot take🔥 on the web can be trusted. Between the 24-hour news cycle, disinformation campaigns, and the plethora of articles shared on Facebook each day, it’s easy for anyone to feel overwhelmed while trying to…

November 10, 2021 // Alyssa Froehling

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