What do a passion for video games and a successful career have in common? A recent study conducted by OnePoll on behalf of World of Warships by Wargaming asked approximately 2,000 American adults to answer this very question, assessing the impact that video games had on their professional lives. If you’re short on time, you …
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Educational Game Development Best Practices: Animation and Voiceover
Animation Our animation process is significantly different between 2D and 3D art, but today we’re going to focus on our 2D workflow. Animation starts internally with Motion Design. This involves the team sketching a concept of the final piece and creating basic animatics. These are used to identify the level of detail, timing, and the …
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 …
GBL Luminary Guest Post: A Logical Journey Through Game-Based Learning
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 Jodi Asbell-Clarke – Senior …
CEO Interview: The Importance of Open-ended Problems in Game-based Learning
For today’s blog, we sat down with CEO Dan White to discuss why students need to be prepared to solve open-ended problems and how games like RoboCo can help. What prompted your interest in this topic? It really comes down to the fact that outside of school, outside of formal K12 learning, most problems that …
Inside RoboCo: Episodes #1-3
If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you know that we’ve been working on a game called RoboCo – a digital robotics sandbox for PC and VR. Though we’ve been underway for several years thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation, RoboCo continues to evolve through our ongoing development efforts, and through …
Let’s Talk! Upcoming Filament Games Speaking Engagements
Summer is here and that can only mean one thing: It’s time to don our tallest top hats and take the stage for some industry conference speaking engagements. The next month is jam-packed with opportunities to see our faces and hear our thoughts on the latest and greatest in educational game development. Read on for …
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 …
Cost to Make a Video Game with Filament Games
VP Jennifer Javornik offers an in-depth response to one of our most frequently asked questions – what does it cost to make an educational video game? …
Digital Game-Based Learning Product Strategies for Publishers
VP Jennifer Javornik shares an in-depth overview of digital game-based learning product strategies for publishers – highlighting plenty of examples along the way! …
