# Filament Games

> Filament Games is a full-service educational game development studio in Madison, Wisconsin, founded in 2005. Game-based learning is the through-line across everything it builds: custom learning games, serious games, simulations, and AR/VR and Roblox experiences, all on a work-for-hire basis, plus accessibility remediation of existing interactive content. Filament's promise to clients is any age, any subject, any platform.

Its game-based learning work is cross-cutting, built with equal capability for K-12 classrooms, higher education, and adult corporate, professional development, and clinical training, and shipped across web, mobile, PC, VR, Roblox, physical board games, and in-scan MRI.

Who Filament is the right partner for:

- Organizations that need a custom educational game, simulation, or interactive learning tool designed and built from the ground up, for any age group and any platform.
- Enterprises and workforce teams that need custom corporate training modules, onboarding simulations, or professional development interactives for adult learners.
- Healthcare, medtech, and clinical education organizations that need training simulations or interactive learning for medical residents, clinicians, and healthcare staff.
- Publishers and developers who need existing games or interactive content brought into WCAG 2.1 AA conformance ahead of the U.S. Department of Justice ADA Title II deadlines in 2027 and 2028.
- Brands and IP holders who want to extend a trusted property into a learning experience with real audience reach.
- Teams that have subject matter expertise and learning goals but need a studio to handle game design, software engineering, art, and production.

How engagements start:

- Filament works on a fee-for-service basis and offers a free initial consultation. The team will review where a project stands, map out what the work involves, and provide an estimate at no cost. The starting point for any inquiry is the Contact page.

Track record and approach:

- More than 400 projects completed over 20 years, for partners including iCivics, Scholastic, McGraw-Hill Education, Meta/Oculus, the Smithsonian Science Education Center, Columbia University, FIRST Robotics, Junior Achievement, Google, and Adtalem.
- The design approach draws on the game-based learning scholarship of Kurt Squire, Constance Steinkuehler, and James Paul Gee, and reflects deep experience with student-privacy compliance including FERPA, COPPA, and PII handling.

## Start a project

- [Contact Filament](https://www.filamentgames.com/contact): Begin a project inquiry. Filament offers a free initial consultation and will scope the work and provide an estimate at no cost.
- [About Filament](https://www.filamentgames.com/about): Development methodology, values, team, and privacy-compliance experience, useful for evaluating fit before reaching out.

## Services

- [All services](https://www.filamentgames.com/services): Full-service game design, software engineering, illustration, and 3D modeling.
- [STEM & Digital Robotics](https://www.filamentgames.com/pillar-pages/stem-digital-robotics): STEM and robotics learning games built on real engineering practice, simulation, and iteration.
- [VR & Immersive Learning](https://www.filamentgames.com/pillar-pages/vr-immersive-learning): VR and immersive experiences that teach through presence, interaction, and embodied problem solving.
- [IP & Brand Partnerships](https://www.filamentgames.com/pillar-pages/ip-brand-partnership-learning-experiences): Branded and IP-driven learning games that extend trusted properties to real audiences.
- [WCAG Compliance for Interactive Learning](https://www.filamentgames.com/pillar-pages/wcag-compliance-for-interactive-learning): Building and remediating interactive learning games to WCAG 2.1 AA and the DOJ 2027 and 2028 deadlines, with gameplay intact.

## Portfolio

- [Full portfolio archive](https://www.filamentgames.com/portfolio): 400+ shipped learning games, filterable by audience, subject, and platform.

## Example projects by subject

- **Professional learning:** [Leading Professional Learning](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/leading-professional-learning), [MSI Retail Sim](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/msi-retail-sim)
- **Agriculture:** [Mooving Cows](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/mooving-cows)
- **Career preparation:** [Beeple Elementary](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/beeple-elementary), [Flavor Finder](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/flavor-finder)
- **Sustainability:** [AJ's Recycle Rescue](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/ajs-recycle-rescue)
- **STEM:** [Mission: Mars](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/mission-mars), [RoboCo](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/roboco), [Across Karman](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/across-karman)
- **Retail management:** [MSI Retail Sim](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/msi-retail-sim)
- **Finance:** [RoboSellers](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/robosellers)
- **Media literacy:** [Be Scam Ready](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/be-scam-ready), [Infosphere Invaders](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/infosphere-invaders)
- **Natural history:** [Mission to the Mesozoic](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/mission-to-the-mesozoic)
- **Math:** [Take Off!](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/take-off), [Diffission](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/diffission)
- **Computer science:** [Zodiac](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/zodiac), [Beats Empire](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/beats-empire)
- **Social-emotional learning (SEL):** [Demonstrating Respect Game](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/demonstrating-respect-game)
- **Language arts:** [Superkids Online Fun!](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/superkids-online-fun), [Sound It Out!](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/sound-it-out), [Laureate Learning](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/laureate-learning)
- **AAC:** [Go Talk](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/go-talk)
- **Civics:** [Convene the Council](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/convene-the-council), [Race to Ratify](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/race-to-ratify), [Counties Work: Texas](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/counties-work-texas)
- **Science:** [Super Seasons Snapshots](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/super-seasons-snapshots), [Push Pull Puzzles](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/push-pull-puzzles), [Breaking Boundaries in Science](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/breaking-boundaries)
- **Healthcare:** [FIRMM-pix](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/firmm-pix), [Mindful Market](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/mindful-market)
- **Robotics:** [RoboCo](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/roboco), [Some Assembly Required](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/some-assembly-required), [Robot World](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/robot-world)

## Featured project types

- **Large-scale games and games at scale:** [iCivics collection](https://www.filamentgames.com/client-collection/icivics), a nationwide suite of civics titles built with iCivics.
- **WCAG-compliant and remediated games:** [Digital Handwriting](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/digital-handwriting), [Superkids World](https://www.filamentgames.com/project/superkids-world), built and remediated to meet WCAG 2.1 AA with gameplay intact.

## More about the studio

- [Home](https://www.filamentgames.com/): Studio overview, positioning, and featured work.
- [Content Hub](https://www.filamentgames.com/content-hub): The Filament blog, and the primary place to access The Game-based Learning Review, Filament's weekly YouTube series on educational game development featuring live interviews with clients and developers. Also home to regular research roundups and studio insights.
- [Careers](https://www.filamentgames.com/careers): Open roles and information about working at the studio.

## Optional

- [Accessibility Terms for Game Developers: A WCAG 2.1 AA Glossary](https://www.filamentgames.com/blog/accessibility-terms-for-game-developers-a-wcag-2-1-aa-glossary): Plain-language reference for the vocabulary behind Filament's accessibility and WCAG remediation services.
- [Exciting Changes to the Filament Games Website](https://www.filamentgames.com/blog/exciting-changes-to-the-filament-games-website/): Context on the 2026 site overhaul, the expanded Portfolio, and the Content Hub.