Dan Norton

An abstraction is, of course, an expression of...a thing, that is not the thing itself. Since we make games about a thing, you can (and should) see each of our games as an abstraction of the thing that we’re trying to express...

Do you dream of becoming Filament's next game designer? Chief Creative Officer Dan Norton shares his step-by-step guide for turning your fantasy into reality.

Hola amigos! It’s been a long time since I’ve rapped at ya, but today I thought I’d revisit the wild, wild world of gamification...

I had the distinct pleasure of meeting with a special ELL convening hosted by iCivics in DC to talk about some new things coming down the pike for Do I Have a Right?. Currently in development is a Spanish-language translation of the game, as well as new...

Hello there! Recently here at Filament Games I was working on a game pitch and the question of “real-time” versus “turn-based” was raised. As per usual, I had strong opinions without any justification, so I thought I would take some time to unpack my feelings...

We live in interesting times, where a convergence of technologies, spurred by mobile phone development has led to a ton of very powerful things getting embedded into very small devices. This includes a wide variety of different kinds of sensors, and...

VR! The kids are INTO IT! We’ve been so focused on VR over here at Filament Games I can’t be 100% certain I’m not typing this with goggles on right now. It’s been really exciting to cut our teeth on our first round of VR projects, and it’s led to...

Whenever we start a project, it’s pretty common for us to not have a formal finished pitch. Early concepts and proposal aside, there is still a giant gap between “here’s what we’d like our users to know” and “this is what the game is like”. It’s nuts! We love it! Years ago...

We’ve had a lot of amazing clients over the years here at Filament. When your day-to-day job is to design creative projects that help people, you wind up meeting a ton of incredible people. But it’s not always rosy- making learning games is a risky, strange...