Filament Games Podcast

In this episode, Brandon and Dan, along with guest Lydia Symchych, a former Filament game designer, tackle pervasive game-based learning myths. Like the revered Mythbusters themselves, Brandon, Dan, and Lydia dive into common misconceptions and destroy them from the inside out!*

*Figuratively, of course. No pyrotechnics were used in the making of this episode.

Welcome back to the Filament Games Podcast! To commemorate the November 3rd launch of RoboCo for Steam Early Access, we invited our CEO Dan White onto the podcast to chat with Brandon and Dan all about how RoboCo came to be, our partnership with FIRST, and what launch day was like (spoiler alert, Dan White’s adrenal glands were in peril).

From the game’s humble beginnings to its roadblocks to its breakthroughs, we’re so proud to not only share RoboCo with you but the journey with you too, right here on the podcast! 🎉

Welcome back to the Filament Games Podcast! If you read our blog, you may know we are working with our friends at the University of Wisconsin - Madison to create an educational cow-handling game.

If you didn’t know, now you do! The project is aptly called Mooving Cows, and it is a game-based learning experience that teaches players how to interact properly with cattle in a risk-free virtual environment.

One of our key collaborators is Jennifer Van Os, the project’s director as well as Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist of Animal Welfare at UW Madison. In this episode of the Filament Games podcast, Brandon and Dan ask Jennifer about how the project came to be, her career in animal welfare, and why game-based learning is a particularly useful tool for teaching cow-handling best practices.

Oh, and Jennifer may also mention that cows can play video games too.

The Filament Games Podcast is back!

That’s right, after a, ahem, brief four-year hiatus, season four of your favorite game-based learning podcast is here. The original hosts of the podcast, VP of Marketing Brandon Pittser and CCO Dan Norton, are back with even more game-based learning insights, incredible guest interviews, and enough antics to keep you informed and entertained all at once.

Season 4 Episode 1: “Is This Thing On?” features guest and Filament Games producer, Kenny Green. This episode catches listeners up on the past 4 years and what’s been going on behind the scenes at Filament, particularly with our sandbox robotics game, RoboCo.

RoboCo Main Theme by Filament Games

Newsfeed Defenders by Filament Games

Candy Arcade by Filament Games

Dr Guts by Filament Games

Planet Mechanic by Filament Games

Cast Your Vote by Filament Games