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Designing Educational Games for International Audiences

Want to ensure your educational game is accessible and appealing to audiences around the globe? Check out these key game design considerations!

February 22, 2021 // James LaPierre

Filament Games | Educational Game Developer

Designing Accessible Educational Games

We’re chatting with game designer Colin Skinner about his efforts bringing accessibility features to our recent iCivics game releases!

March 1, 2021 // James LaPierre

Resource Roundup: Educational Games and Accessibility

We’re celebrating the intersection of educational games and accessibility with a roundup of helpful (and free) resources!

March 3, 2021 // James LaPierre

How Creative Agencies Can Expand Their Offerings With Games

Learn how we partner with creative agencies to help them create custom digital games and AR/VR experiences for their clients!

May 12, 2021 // Jennifer Javornik

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…

June 14, 2021 // Alex Stone

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…

June 16, 2021 // Brandon Pittser

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…

June 28, 2021 // Brandon Pittser

RoboCo Game screenshot of a forklift robot

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…

July 12, 2021 // Dan White

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…

July 14, 2021 // Filament Staff

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…

July 19, 2021 // Alex Stone

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