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🚨Game Launch🚨: Be Scam Ready with Google and Filament Games

There’s no question that scams are getting smarter, more sophisticated, and more prevalent. From seemingly innocuous text messages to full video calls with people that don’t even exist, there’s a whole new spectrum of flimflam, bamboozlement, and chicanery to contend with. These tactics are specifically designed to create intense emotional and time pressure, making it…

// Brandon Pittser

October Roundup: Games that Improve People’s Lives

This October, the Filament Games blog turned its attention to something simple but powerful: how good design makes life better. Across six stories, we explored how games help people slow down, focus longer, and think in systems. Whether you’re guiding students through a simulation, studying the science of attention, or booting up a mixed reality…

// Brandon Pittser

Research Roundup: Slow Games for Fast Times

The modern attention span is stretched thin. Every app wants our eyes, every feed wants our time, and every notification insists it’s urgent. Against that background of noise, a quiet design movement has taken root. Slow games ask players to pause, breathe, and notice. They replace the race for points with the rhythm of small,…

// Brandon Pittser

Games That Teach Focus in a Distracted World

In an age of constant notifications and phone chimes and group chats and Slack notifications and Discord pings and emails and spam texts, many assume that digital games shorten attention spans along with the rest of the neverending digital melee. The reality is more nuanced! When designed correctly, certain types of games can actually strengthen…

// Brandon Pittser

Systems Thinking in the Classroom: Four Games That Connect the Dots

When students learn to see the world as a web of interdependent systems, it’s like a superpower. Game-based learning makes those relationships between systems tangible by allowing players to run experiments, observe feedback, and see how one decision can shift a whole network in real time. These four classroom-ready titles bring systems thinking to life…

// Brandon Pittser

Simulation Games Building Career Readiness in 2026

Good simulations don’t just mimic jobs. They make you feel the rhythm of real work – the planning, the pressure, and the odd satisfaction of getting a complex system to behave. The five games below each capture a different kind of professional thinking, from hospital logistics to robot design. They’re fun, sometimes stressful, and always…

// Brandon Pittser

The Latest Findings on AI and Learning – October 2025

The latest research and educator reports on AI implementation show that the real breakthroughs are coming from thoughtful integration, as opposed to the typical drivers of attention on AI solutions; i.e., novelty and spectacle. Across new studies and opinion pieces, educators describe AI as a collaborator that enhances feedback, a design partner that expands access,…

// Brandon Pittser

What’s New in Game-based Learning – October 2025

If you’ve been scanning education headlines this fall, you’ll know that game-based learning is surfacing in some surprising places. University labs are using Nintendo titles to reach neurodivergent students. Dutch researchers are turning chip design into a public game. VR sports are being studied for their mental health benefits. And even the BBC is weighing…

// Brandon Pittser
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