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Highlights from a Decade of Learning Games

What does a decade of learning games look like? Filament Games has been around making learning games and taking names since 2005, which was so long ago that smartphones weren’t even a thing at the time. A lot has changed about the world since then, and correspondingly, a lot has changed about how we design…

July 31, 2017 // Brandon Pittser

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Progressive Web Apps: Pros and Cons

If you work in or around web technologies, you may have heard a hot new phrase getting tossed around lately: Progressive Web App (complete with its own acronym: PWA). What is a progressive web app? In short, it’s an attempt to fuse the latest modern web and native app technologies, allowing you to use a web…

January 28, 2019 // Andy Bourassa, Ryan Sigg

Why You Should Use Unity to Build Your Next Learning Game

Any age, any platform, and any subject – when it comes to creating world-class games for learning and social impact, versatility is key. A vital component underlying this flexibility is our studio-wide adoption of Unity, a cross-platform game engine that we use to develop all of our learning games. In order to better understand the many justifications…

March 18, 2019 // James LaPierre

A Tale of Two Data Sets – Data in Game Development

It might surprise you to learn that working on the data of your game is usually about half the development effort – if not more. Whether your data is bits of dialogue, images, items, or locations of objects, all of that information has to be meticulously designed and organized. While the game might have some…

July 10, 2019 // Stephen Calender

Introducing unity3d-pixi

In education, technology moves more slowly than in the consumer world. Institutions must eke all of the value out of their existing hardware, and even when they do make new hardware purchases, the hardware is still not requisitioned with games in mind. This means that when we are charged with building software that is accessible…

March 23, 2017 // Alex Stone

How We Make High-Quality Maintainable Code for Educational Games

The core of what we do is making educational games and simulations for clients. Often those clients either do not have a development team or they do have a development team but their team doesn’t make games. When our clients engage us for a project, we know that our software has to be built to…

June 14, 2021 // Alex Stone

Educational Game Development Best Practices: Data Strategy and Confidentiality

Data Strategy There are two categories of data that we think about when building games. Telemetry is data about how the user experiences the game. This may include timing information, content exposures, correct/vs incorrect responses, and other key interactions that allow stakeholders to make inferences about the user’s skill mastery and app usability. Telemetry is…

July 19, 2021 // Alex Stone

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

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

A Day in the Life of a Game Engineer

Hello Filamentarians! For today’s blog, we went behind the scenes to find out what a day in the life of a game engineer at Filament Games is like. We interviewed Senior Game Engineer Allison Salmon about her career in both educational game development and at AAA studios, her role and responsibilities, and much more! Discover…

September 14, 2022 // Allison Salmon

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