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Let’s Play Credit Climber!

Another day, another chance to think about financial literacy! As you may have heard earlier this week, Filament just launched a game with our friends at Intuit called Credit Climber, a narrative educational game designed to young people about how credit scores work. To celebrate this momentous occasion, Filament’s own Dan Norton and Brandon Pittser…

// Brandon Pittser
red video game controller on a blue background

Exploring Learning-First Games for Corporate Upskilling

Corporate training in 2026 is moving away from passive content consumption toward active, skills-based simulations that drive measurable workforce improvement. We’re calling it now: the days of module box-checking and empty annual certifications are numbered – as organizations face rapid shifts in technical requirements and job roles, traditional e-learning models often fail to provide the…

// Brandon Pittser

Patient Adherence and Clinical Outcomes in Digital Therapeutics

We’re getting heady today folks, and for good reason – as we look around at medical learning solutions and impact-oriented medical technologies, we can’t help but notice some changes in the landscape of digital health in 2026. Increasingly, companies (and investors!) are shifting expectations from speculative innovation toward measurable clinical performance. As healthcare providers and…

// Brandon Pittser

What’s New in Game-based Learning – February 2026

Much like game-based learning itself, we’re expanding our focus across multiple sectors this month. Across highly various delivery formats, we’re seeing games used to support early literacy, university learning, executive decision-making, and long-horizon policy planning. This month’s examples focus less on novelty and more on function, highlighting how well-designed games make thinking visible, practice repeatable,…

// Brandon Pittser

Why Games Work as a Corporate Social Responsibility Format

Games earn sustained attention in ways CSR messaging usually cannot Most CSR initiatives struggle with the same structural problem: they rely on formats that compete poorly for attention. Campaigns, microsites, and short-form educational content assume audiences will pause what they are already doing to absorb a message. Decades of research on digital learning and engagement…

// Brandon Pittser

Training Formats for Stronger ROI

Training formats tend to persist long after the conditions that created them. Workshops, webinars, and slide-based courses remain common because they are familiar and operationally simple. Over time, those choices shape cost, consistency, and outcomes in ways that are rarely examined. Long-term return on investment is influenced less by the amount of content delivered and…

// Brandon Pittser

Celebrating 20 Years of Playful Innovation

This year, we’re looking back on 20 years of learning games, and frankly, it looks great. We’ve spent two decades dedicated to the craft of creating engaging, efficacious learning games, and to mark the occasion, our art department has designed a fancy commemorative logo (behold, the header!) that perfectly captures our journey. But that’s not…

// Brandon Pittser
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