Georgia developed a keen interest in education while teaching English overseas before ultimately venturing into the field of educational games. She assists in testing various projects and values the joy and challenge in attempting to break things.

Jill specializes in background art but has been known to draw characters if you bribe her with various confections. Her hobbies are drinking coffee and glaring at passersby from second-story windows.

Besides production, Lilly has experience with 3D Modeling. She always looks for a way to promote a positive experience among her colleagues. When she is not working, she loves to spend time with her family playing videogames or watching movies.

What does photosynthesis sound like? What music should accompany virtual reality robots? These are the kind of questions Josh creatively answers as Sound Designer and Music Composer. From 1920’s ragtime, to futuristic space, he provides all the acoustic color!

Shawn has never been content pursuing just one creative endeavor and has had experience designing in a number of industries. He is in constant pursuit of a well-thought-out and artistic interface.

Andy has been developing web and mobile applications professionally for over nine years. He specializes in database optimization and API design. Before Filament, he worked on a range of software including native iOS apps, lexical analysis software and social networks.

Fighting evil by moonlight and designing games by daylight, Francesca loves plants, caffeinated tea, and her dog, Olive. She is also the founder of an indie game studio and teaches coding classes. 

Chen-ya draws round things, cute things, and dirt. Sometimes the dirt is cute and round.

A former west coast game engineer and dot-comer turned proud Midwest hockey dad — complete with a sweet Subaru station wagon! Gene is an accomplished classical pianist who sometimes wishes he’d learned to play the guitar instead.

Nick is passionate about games and the good they can do. He likes group bike rides, reading non-fiction, and rhythm games. Nick is a golf enthusiast but wishes the sport was more action-packed.

Brian has been doing software QA since 2007. He tested Epic’s CVIS for 5 years before making the switch to Filament in 2013. In his free time he enjoys biking, canoeing, travelling, reading, trying new beers, and relaxing with his wife, son, and dog.

Ian is a game engineer, passionate for the medium of games and how they evolve through time. He enjoys experimenting with procedural generation, and has a fascination with making wild predictions on the future of the gaming industry.

Rob is a Game Engineer and programmer. After several Unity development contract projects through Filament, the allure was too great and he had to continue working here full time.

Gigi manages the office’s steady streams of coffee, external inquiries, and paperwork (ranked in order of importance to the Filament staff). She moonlights as an artist working in textiles and printmaking.

Ever the competitor, Kenny doesn’t back down from a challenge. He enjoys learning from each project and sharing those lessons with new teams. You might even catch him occasionally wearing his varsity esports jersey while leading a standup.

Joe makes games.

Jennifer works with people from all over the globe who potentially want to work with Filament to make games, simulations, and VR and AR experiences that make an impact. She helps them understand what Filament can do and how we do it.

As a Game Designer, Luke works with clients and with Filament’s talented development team to find fun and effective ways to help players learn. Luke loves working on educational games because the wide range of subjects makes every game unique.

Roma is a graduate of Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, where she studied illustration and animation. She puts both of those skills to use at Filament, drawing various chickens and jungle plants. In her spare time, she watches cheesy 80’s films and draws clowns who are also cops.

He helps make games by thinking and typing.

After years of working creative odd-jobs, from illustration to space piracy, Chris went to grad school at NYU to study how and why people play. His search landed him at Filament, where he swears he’ll use his knowledge for good this time.

When not working with other amazing developers as a producer you can usually find Kaltin at a nearby theatre either in the audience or on stage. What he likes the most about acting and game development is the pure creative and collaborative process and working with incredible people.

Charlie produces clean and concise financial reports and budgets in an effort to create clarity in a rapidly changing business environment. He is a CPA and CMA who enjoys the professional challenges of working in the learning games and technology sectors.

Brandon works across all disciplines to create intuitive interfaces and experiences. From day to day you may find him designing wireframes, creating polished game art, documenting new feature behaviors, or animating bubbly characters.

Having turned his passion for video games into a career, James writes and edits content in support of Filament’s marketing efforts. An alumnus of the UW – Madison, James is best summarized as a fast food connoisseur, avid Nintendo fan, and future dog owner.

Driven by the lasting impression that games can leave on players, Alan loves collaborating across roles to craft engaging experiences. If not designing games, he can be found under a blanket or at a heavy metal concert.

Shaina diligently manages the Production, Quality Assurance, and AV departments. Her primary responsibility is to make sure the studio is allocated properly and that projects are running smoothly from the sales process through development and maintenance.

With an 8 year tenure in the Ed Tech industry, Brandon leads the content marketing practice and helps to guide the overall business strategy at Filament Games. His role also includes outreach to local education programs and community organizations.

Jon is in Information Technology and loves working with people and computers. His strengths cover a variety of areas. His current focuses are on Linux servers and VMware.

Darrick likes to eat food, but can never finish it, much to their dismay.

A renaissance woman at heart, Tracey’s many passions magically assembled into a graphic design position at Filament. She loves problem-solving and longs to make pleasant experiences for users. She is also the self-appointed sheriff of using crisp web graphics.

Allison is a seasoned game developer with over 17 years of experience. She has worked with teams of all shapes and sizes from large AAA to tiny indie. When not making games she enjoys karate, knitting and traveling with her husband and two kids.

Has been a front end web developer since before the term existed, back when websites were chiseled by hand from HTML (and sometimes Flash). He loves all things animated, from the lowliest GIF to the most advanced SVG transition.

Colin appreciates the unique power of games as tools for learning about systems. He enjoys studying real-life systems and devising game mechanics that illustrate their behavior. He also likes playing ultimate frisbee, kiteboarding, and cooking tasty Chinese food.

Austin is a UW-Stout graduate that comes to Filament from Activision Blizzard. As a quality assurance associate, Austin has the privilege to play games and type a lot!

When she’s not working as a producer, Sarah volunteers as a program coordinator for the IGDA Scholars program and helps with local game dev events. Sarah also writes on the side and enjoys pretending that she’s a brooding novelist with a caffeine addition.

After designing and caring for museum exhibits, Lydia joined Filament where she combines her passion for interactive learning and video games as a Game Designer. Her penchant for making things extends to cooking, crafting, and general jerry-rigging.

Megan enjoys understanding people’s needs and helping those around her, whether it’s by creating fun and intuitive player experiences, or by collaborating with teammates on design, art, and the weird little technical bits in between.

Katherine is an avid supporter of bringing games and VR experiences into the fine arts space and believes interactive media is an untapped well of literary value.

Carter enjoys making simple games. He thinks learning is fun and that multiplayer and coop games have incredible potential as an art form. In his spare time, Carter likes being bad at hard video games.

Coming from a background in graphic design, Alex developed UX skills at interactive-advertising agencies before coming to Filament. Now a team member for a number of years, Alex wields a demanding pickiness for aesthetics and a keen eye for detail.

Flora uses her skills as an artist to bring imaginary worlds to life. Her love for visual storytelling led her to study computer art and began her passion for 3D art. Outside of work she spends her time ganking casuals in DOTA2 or serving her demanding ragdoll overlords.