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Making Great Learning Games Pt. 2 – Designing Game Mechanics

Hello again! Welcome to part 2 of Making Great Learning Games! Last article we covered how to identify your actual learning objectives and how to formulate a plan for transferring them from the play experience to the real world. Now the next step is migrating those objectives into gameplay mechanics! I don’t want to speak…

October 7, 2019 // Dan Norton

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Making Great Learning Games Pt. 1 – Defining Learning Objectives

Drawing on over a decade of experience developing educational games, CCO Dan Norton offers a look at the core elements of designing great learning games…

September 30, 2019 // Dan Norton

Esports EDU: Competitive Gaming in the K-12 Classroom

Competitive video gaming – commonly referred to as esports – is a rapidly growing sector of the video game industry, and its momentum shows no signs of slowing anytime soon. According to analyst predictions, the global esports market is anticipated to exceed $1 billion in revenue in 2019, a remarkable growth of 26.7% from the…

September 18, 2019 // James LaPierre

Behind-the-Screens: An Inside Look at our Project Management Approach

Curious about what it’s like to create a learning game alongside our team? Today we’re offering a look into our processes for creating engaging, efficacious learning games – something we’ve been doing exclusively for nearly 15 years! It’s a chance for us to reflect on how we approach the act of making, and an opportunity…

August 14, 2019 // Jennifer Javornik

5 More Educational Games for the Nintendo Switch

Last year, we published the internet’s first-ever roundup of educational games for the Nintendo Switch – and in the months since, the list has become one of our most popular blog articles of all time! Based on this, two things are clear: 1) the internet loves the Nintendo Switch; and 2) there’s a lot of…

July 17, 2019 // James LaPierre

Free-to-Play Learning Games Roundup 2019

Seeking free learning games to share with your students? You’ve come to the right place! 👋 Real talk: the Filament Games Blog is ripe with educational gaming content designed with real-world classrooms in mind, from our free How to Teach with Games eBook, to our routine roundups of high-quality learning games across subjects like computer…

July 15, 2019 // James LaPierre

A Tale of Two Data Sets – Data in Game Development

It might surprise you to learn that working on the data of your game is usually about half the development effort – if not more. Whether your data is bits of dialogue, images, items, or locations of objects, all of that information has to be meticulously designed and organized. While the game might have some…

July 10, 2019 // Stephen Calender

Remote Collaboration & Telecommunication – Part 3: Achieving Successful Shared Workspaces

Great meeting! Network connection was solid the whole time, video was great, audio was crystal clear, and interruptions were kept to a minimum. Great job everyone, we’ve mastered video conferencing. Now, please review your personal notes and in two weeks we’ll have a follow up meeting to reconcile our wildly different interpretations of the decisions…

June 24, 2019 // Ethan Cayko

UX and UI Design: 10 Do’s and Don’ts

In my last article, I laid out some of the key differences between user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design – two distinct elements that play a critical role in the development of eye-catching, user-friendly games, websites, and other digital creations. With these definitions now established, today’s blog will take things one step further…

June 19, 2019 // Madeline Folz

‘Pokémon Sleep’ and the Gamification of Health and Wellness

For many gamers around the world, summer 2016 was defined by the launch of Pokémon GO – San Francisco-based Niantic’s mobile AR megahit based on the #1 media franchise of all time. Much like the handheld games that preceded it, Pokémon GO challenges players to travel the world, capture and collect Pokémon, and battle fellow…

June 12, 2019 // James LaPierre

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