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Game Your Way to a Career: Organizers

Do you want to know how you can go from a gamer to a community or team leader? Welcome to the second installment of “Game Your Way to a Career,” a blog series where we share how video games allow players to grow their future-facing skills, and how these skills transfer into different career paths!…

October 24, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling

21st Century Skills in 2022

The 21st century started on January 1, 2001. From then until now, it’s safe to say that educational technology has evolved significantly in efficiency, scope, and methodology. So when someone in the edtech industry refers to “21st century skills,” what exactly does that mean in 2022? That’s why at Filament, we prefer the term “future-facing…

October 26, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling

Resource Roundup: Game-based Learning and Future-Facing Skills

Have you ever wondered what the future of learning holds? We can’t tell you all the answers, but we can guarantee one thing: future-facing skills set up students for future success! As another month comes to a close, we have yet another roundup of resources for you. October was all about future-facing skills, also known…

October 31, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling

What’s New in Game-based Learning – November 2022

Time to bust out the cornucopia – we have a whole buffet of the latest game-based learning news for you, just in time for November! In case you’re new here, welcome to “What’s New in Game-based Learning.” This is a series where we, your friendly neighborhood educational game developer, keep you up to date on…

November 2, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling

Filament Games Podcast | Season 4 Episode 1: Is This Thing On?

The Filament Games Podcast is back! That’s right, after a, ahem, brief four-year hiatus, season four of your favorite game-based learning podcast is here. The original hosts of the podcast, VP of Marketing Brandon Pittser and CCO Dan Norton, are back with even more game-based learning insights, incredible guest interviews, and enough antics to keep…

November 9, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling

Inside RoboCo

In case you haven’t heard, our sandbox robotics game RoboCo is available on Steam Early Access for PC right now! To celebrate so far, we’ve covered the origin story of RoboCo and revisited the game’s humble beginnings, and we’ve also provided you with an introduction to RoboCo tips, tutorials, and more. Today, we’re back to…

November 16, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling

Filament Games Podcast | Season 4 Episode 2: Mooving Cows with Jennifer Van Os

Welcome back to the Filament Games Podcast! If you read our post on educational video games, farming, and agriculture, you know we are working with our friends at the University of Wisconsin – Madison to create an educational cow-handling game. If you didn’t know, now you do! The project is aptly called Mooving Cows, and…

November 21, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling

Check Out These Robots!

It’s RoboCo release month! If you’re new to the blog or catching up, RoboCo, our robotics sandbox game, was released on Steam Early Access for PC earlier this month. On November 3, 2022, to be precise! Here on the Filament Games blog, we covered release features, The Platinum Cup (a Discord-only launch race), and more…

November 28, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling

Resource Roundup: Everything You Need to Know About RoboCo

It’s been a whirlwind November here at Filament Games, and we can barely contain our excitement! Most notably, we released our robotics sandbox game, RoboCo, on Steam Early Access on the 3rd. This game has been years in the making, and we’re proud to be able to share it with the world. In case you’ve…

November 30, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling

What’s New in Game-based Learning – December 2022

We’ve almost made it, Filafolks. Yet another edtech-filled trip around the sun! It’s officially December, which means we have a gift just for you: a brand-new segment of What’s New in Game-based Learning! What’s New in Game-based Learning is a series here on the Filament Games blog that brings together all of the ❄️coolest❄️ serious…

December 5, 2022 // Alyssa Froehling