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Esports in the K-12 Classroom

At this point, we’d be surprised if you haven’t heard of esports one way or another! With its total audience expected to surpass 640 million in 2025, competitive gaming is taking adult gamers, higher education, and schools by storm. At the beginning of 2021, we gave you an inside scoop on esports in the K-12…

August 10, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling

5 Excellent Games for K-12 Learners

As the back-to-school season rapidly approaches, teachers across the country are looking for new ways to keep students engaged and ready to learn. If you’re looking to give existing lesson plans a playful upgrade, educational video games are the perfect addition to your classroom. With 70% of gamers under the age of 18, it’s safe…

August 8, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling

Research Roundup: K-12 Learners, STEM, and Game-based Learning

It’s been a minute since we last covered research on game-based learning and K-12 students. Whether you’re new to the blog or you’ve been around for a while, you know that here at Filament, we believe playful experiences improve people’s lives, and that video games are an invaluable piece of edtech. We’ll never ask you…

August 3, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling

What’s New in Game-based Learning – August 2022

Happy back-to-school season, Filamentarians! That’s right, August is upon us, and the dog days of summer are here. This month on the blog, you can expect plenty of K-12 game-based learning content from us as schools gear up for a new semester. But first, of course, we have to let our dear readers know what’s…

August 1, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling

Resource Roundup: Educational Games and the Environment

Hello, Earthlings! Believe it or not, July is coming to a close. This month, we focused on several different topics around gaming and the environment. Any of us looking to build a better future must first understand our planet, including what nurtures it and what challenges it currently faces. Educational video games are an excellent…

July 27, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling

Educational Video Games, Farming, and Agriculture

If you’ve been involved at all in the commercial gaming sphere for the past decade or so, you know that farming sims are an incredibly popular genre. For example, Concerned Ape’s Stardew Valley, a 2016 indie release, has since sold over 20 million copies! Before Stardew, there was Natsume’s Harvest Moon series, now known as…

July 25, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling

Googly Eyes and Top Hats (Podcast)

Recently, our CEO Dan White had the pleasure of joining Elecia White and Christopher White (no relation!) on their engineering podcast, Embedded.fm. This podcast features insights from engineers, artists, educators, and makers with a passion for science, technology, engineering, art, and math. In this episode, Dan discusses Filament’s approach to game design, our upcoming sandbox…

July 20, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling

CEO Interview: Gaming and the Environment

Hello, Filamentarians! For today’s blog, we sat down with CEO Dan White to discuss educational video games and their relationship to environmental topics. Have you ever wondered what games can do to educate players on sustainability, conservation, and other extremely important and timely issues? In this interview, Dan White explains how video games are a…

July 18, 2022 // Dan White

Excellent Conservation and Environmental Science Games

Is there a video game from your childhood that stands out above the rest? For me, that game is Zoo Tycoon. As a kid, I was a voracious viewer of Animal Planet nature specials. I couldn’t learn enough about animals – their behaviors, their habitats, and their relationships with humans. When Zoo Tycoon 2 was…

July 13, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling

What’s New in Game-based Learning – July 2022

Welcome to July, Filamentarians! We hope that the summer heat isn’t keeping you down, but if you need to cool off with some summer reading, you’re in the right place. It’s time for another segment of our highly anticipated monthly series, What’s New in Game-based Learning! If you happen to be new here and don’t…

July 11, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling

Filament Games is now a Roblox Developer!

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

Learning in the Metaverse