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Making Great Learning Games Pt. 2 – Designing Game Mechanics

Hello again! Welcome to part 2 of Making Great Learning Games! Last article we covered how to identify your actual learning objectives and how to formulate a plan for transferring them from the play experience to the real world. Now the next step is migrating those objectives into gameplay mechanics! I don’t want to speak…

October 7, 2019 // Dan Norton

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Making Great Learning Games Pt. 1 – Defining Learning Objectives

Drawing on over a decade of experience developing educational games, CCO Dan Norton offers a look at the core elements of designing great learning games…

September 30, 2019 // Dan Norton

GBL Luminary Guest Post: Designing Play Through Interactives, Toys and Games

Filament Games stays connected to the scholarly side of game-based learning (GBL) through our GBL Luminaries Program. Academics in the Luminaries program work with our staff to maintain a healthy dialogue between game-based learning theory and practice through all-staff lectures and guest blog posts. Today’s GBL Luminary guest post is from Lindsay Grace, Knight Chair…

September 25, 2019 // Lindsay Grace

GBL Luminary Guest Post: Walking with Thoreau – Uncommon Wisdom for Game Designers

September 11, 2019 // Tracy Fullerton

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

Game Spotlight: Rainbow Agents (UW-Madison)

To celebrate the launch of Rainbow Agents at the New York Hall of Science and the Lawrence Hall of Science, we sat down with Game Designer Quinn Crossley for an in-depth look at the making of Filament’s first-ever museum game. Check out their thoughts below! ⤵ Quinn – kick us off by telling us a…

June 10, 2019 // James LaPierre

Inclusive Game Design: Key Starting Principles

As educational game developers, it’s our responsibility to ensure that the experiences we create are accessible and relatable to all students. Here at Filament, we believe that all learners should have access to meaningful educational opportunities, regardless of their identity, ability, or demographics. In order to support this goal, we consider a wide range of…

May 29, 2019 // Quinn Crossley

Inspiring Game-Based Learning Talks from the GDC Vault

Alongside E3 and PAX, the Game Developers Conference (GDC) stands as one of our industry’s most iconic annual events. A celebration of the talent and accomplishments of game developers from around the world, GDC brings thousands of developers, publishers, and academics alike to San Francisco, California each year for a week of networking opportunities, exciting…

April 29, 2019 // James LaPierre

The Robots Are Coming

Kai-Fu Lee, author of AI Superpowers, recently predicted that “within the next 15 years, 40-50% of routine jobs in the US will be replaced by artificial intelligence.” In other words, by the time today’s kindergartners graduate from high school, employers will care little about automatable competencies. As the founder of a fourteen-year-old company, I have…

April 24, 2019 // Dan White

Sea of Thieves and Real Emergent Gameplay

Hey. Have you tried Sea of Thieves? It came out last year, it’s been up and down on Twitch, and I think is a pretty great game. It has some very bold and interesting design ideas that I think have relevance to our work here at Filament. First off, what is Sea of Thieves? Well, it’s a…

April 8, 2019 // Dan Norton

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