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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

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UX and UI Design: 10 Do’s and Don’ts

In my last article, I laid out some of the key differences between user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design – two distinct elements that play a critical role in the development of eye-catching, user-friendly games, websites, and other digital creations. With these definitions now established, today’s blog will take things one step further…

June 19, 2019 // Madeline Folz

Remote Collaboration & Telecommunication – Part 3: Achieving Successful Shared Workspaces

Great meeting! Network connection was solid the whole time, video was great, audio was crystal clear, and interruptions were kept to a minimum. Great job everyone, we’ve mastered video conferencing. Now, please review your personal notes and in two weeks we’ll have a follow up meeting to reconcile our wildly different interpretations of the decisions…

June 24, 2019 // Ethan Cayko

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

Everything You Need to Know About RoboCo

We’re making a robotics sandbox game! It’s called RoboCo, it’s our most ambitious game to date, and it’s coming to Steam Early Access in 2021!

November 23, 2020 // James LaPierre

Behind-the-Screens: An Inside Look at our Project Management Approach

Curious about what it’s like to create a learning game alongside our team? Today we’re offering a look into our processes for creating engaging, efficacious learning games – something we’ve been doing exclusively for nearly 15 years! It’s a chance for us to reflect on how we approach the act of making, and an opportunity…

August 14, 2019 // Jennifer Javornik

GBL Luminary Guest Post: Games and Grad School

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 Matthew Berland, Professor in…

August 28, 2019 // Matthew Berland

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