Dan White Archives | Filament Games

CEO Interview: Gaming and the Environment

July 18, 2022 // Dan White

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…

Challenging Systems

April 18, 2016 // Dan White

Filament Games | Educational Game Developers

I recently delivered a talk at the National Science Teachers Association entitled “Engagement Unlocked: Using Learning Games for STEM”. I began the presentation by disavowing the title because it suggests that, up to this point, engagement has been locked up and inaccessible in schools. That’s obviously not true. Yes, I remember having to memorize the…

SBIR Funding: Dreadfully Wonderful

August 17, 2016 // Dan White

Filament Games | Educational Game Developer

So, you have a brilliant product idea and you think Uncle Sam should fund it. I can’t blame you. Compared to VC money, SBIR funding comes with relatively few strings attached. Most importantly: you don’t have to give up any equity. So what’s the catch? I’m glad you asked! One, the funding rate is low (typically…

How VR Changes Learning

November 14, 2016 // Dan White

If you’re like me, you can’t put a VR headset on without dreaming about the possibilities for learning. From a design perspective, VR affords the opportunity to place the learner in any conceivable environment, and more importantly, to make it interactive. That’s profoundly exciting. Filament has already completed its first educational VR project for a…

The Return of the Learning Games

August 16, 2017 // Dan White

At the recent Games for Change Festival, Constance Steinkuehler displayed Gartner’s time-honored “hype cycle” and posited that learning games are somewhere on the Slope of Enlightenment (likely closer to the Trough than the Plateau). The Game Based Learning (GBL) space is idiosyncratic and will likely have a unique adoption curve (including multiple hype cycles), but…

Any Platform. Any Age. Any Subject.

April 3, 2019 // Alex Stone, Dan Norton, Dan White

Since 2005, Filament Games has partnered with organizations all over the world to create more than 160+ best-in-class learning games and simulations. Our talented team of game designers, artists, engineers, and more work each day to solve complex problems and create high-quality, impact-focused digital experiences. Much has changed in the video games and education industries…

What impact do you want to make on the world?

April 4, 2019 // Alex Stone, Dan Norton, Dan White

“Impact” is a broad term that can have diverse meanings, dependent on an organization’s resources and objectives. Like many of our partners, you might approach us with your desired impact already in mind – however, plenty of organizations come to us seeking both our game development services as well as advice on how to maximize…

The Robots Are Coming

April 24, 2019 // Dan White

Kai-Fu Lee, author of AI Superpowers, recently predicted that “within the next 15 years, 40-50% of routine jobs in the US will be replaced by artificial intelligence.” In other words, by the time today’s kindergartners graduate from high school, employers will care little about automatable competencies. As the founder of a fourteen-year-old company, I have…

Learning Games in 2030

January 29, 2020 // Dan White

A new decade is upon us, which means it’s prime time for prognostication. What will learning games look like in 2030? What does the future hold for our stalwart, frontier industry? Find out today!

Learning Games in 2030 – Part II

April 8, 2020 // Dan White

Curious what the future holds for game-based learning? CEO Dan White shares his predictions in Part II of his Learning Games in 2030 blog series!