Dan White Archives - Filament Games

How AI Changes Learning (Part 1)

AI is one of the hottest topics of 2023, and for good reason – it has changed many industries significantly in the past year alone! We recently sat down with our CEO, Dan White, and CTO, Alex Stone, to hear their unique insights on how AI will change the gaming industry, education, and learning games.…

August 30, 2023 // Alex Stone, Dan White

CEO Interview: The Future of RoboCo

This interview will get all of the gears in your head turning! ⚙️ We recently had the pleasure of meeting with Dan White, our CEO, to discuss the future of our robotics sandbox game, RoboCo. In this conversation, we delve into the unique features that set RoboCo apart from other robotics-related games in the market,…

July 5, 2023 // Dan White

CEO Interview: Gaming and the Environment

Hello, Filamentarians! For today’s blog, we sat down with CEO Dan White to discuss educational video games and their relationship to environmental topics. Have you ever wondered what games can do to educate players on sustainability, conservation, and other extremely important and timely issues? In this interview, Dan White explains how video games are a…

July 18, 2022 // Dan White

Learning in the Metaverse

As a company that leverages video games in the service of learning, we get excited about technological advances that unlock novel ways to deliver digital play. Every new game development tool/hardware offers new affordances that facilitate new types of learning experiences and fuel our collective imagination. When HTML5 landed, we rejoiced at the prospect of…

February 28, 2022 // Dan White

CEO Interview: The Past, Present, and Future of Scholastic Esports

For today’s blog, we sat down with CEO Dan White to discuss the up-and-coming realm of scholastic esports. Read on for Dan’s thoughts on the present and future status of esports, how educational content fits into esports, and how games like RoboCo work to bridge the advantages of physical robotics with the strengths of digital…

November 17, 2021 // Dan White

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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