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Print Publishing in the Digital Age: An Interview with Jennifer Barney

Today we’re interviewing Jennifer Barney, Vice President of Acquisitions & Project Management at Publications International, Filament’s partner on the recently released VR Explorations. Jennifer is a seasoned publishing industry expert, and sat down with us to share her take on the past, present, and future of print publishing in the digital age. Tell us about…

April 4, 2018 // Brandon Pittser

Filament Games | Educational Game Developer

Organizing Engaging Events for Young People

I’ve recently had the privilege of participating in a number of game-based learning events for youth in the Madison area, namely through Spring Harbor Middle School and the Madison Urban League’s Spring Break Gaming and Coding Day at the Madison Central Public Library. Both events were aimed primarily at middle schoolers, with the library event inclusive…

May 14, 2018 // Brandon Pittser

Game-Based Learning Book Recommendations

Dive head first into the wild world of game-based learning by checking out some of our favorite books!

August 31, 2020 // Brandon Pittser

Inspiring Educators in Game-Based Learning

As an educational game development studio on a mission to create playful experiences that improve people’s lives, the team at Filament pays a lot of attention to the commercial games space and the trends that are capturing audiences’ imaginations and attention – but that’s just one half of the equation. In equal measure, we keep…

June 13, 2018 // Brandon Pittser

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Welcome to the New Filament Games Website!

Welcome to the new www.filamentgames.com! If you just happen to be stopping by, you might have noticed that one or two things are different about the site. In actual fact, all of the things are different about the site. But not to worry – things aren’t only different; they’re better. We’ve overhauled the site entirely,…

July 25, 2018 // Brandon Pittser

EdTech Predictions for 2019

As we wrap yet another year of shipping industry-leading learning game titles, we thought it would be a good time to reflect and consider the coming year – after all, as I’ve said before, things change quickly in the technology industry, and educational technology is no exception. In 2018, we’ve seen our first major educational…

January 2, 2019 // Brandon Pittser

VR and Education in 2019

2019 has been a big year for VR so far – with the announcement of the Oculus Rift S and the Vive Cosmos, the titans of VR continue to duke it out for supremacy across a landscape of varying resolutions, cords (or not), and tracking styles. That being said, I know what you’re thinking –…

April 17, 2019 // Brandon Pittser

2019 Virtual Reality Hardware Roundup

You hear that? It’s the faint but unmistakable sound of seismic events in the VR hardware landscape. 2019 has been thoroughly dynamic in terms of new platform and hardware developments in the always-exciting, always-evolving world of virtual reality, and we have scarcely gone a day without having our assumptions challenged around who is still in…

May 22, 2019 // Brandon Pittser

Augmented Reality in 2019

It’s been a big year for us in virtual reality – with a Webby win and a new PC/VR hybrid title on the way (namely, RoboCo), our VR efforts continue to pay dividends. But what about VR’s weird cousin, augmented reality? It’s been a minute since we’ve checked in on AR, and when I started…

July 22, 2019 // Brandon Pittser

Game-Based Assessments for Hiring

When we think of games in a corporate setting, what usually springs to mind are training simulators, gamified reward structures, or perhaps a brisk match of KanJam. There’s another side to corporate games and game-based learning though, and it kicks in before you even get through the door. More so than ever, companies everywhere are…

October 28, 2019 // Brandon Pittser