The Art of Designing Games for Impact, Education and Action, Dan White CEO Filament Games Ep51
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Today's guest is Dan White. He is the CEO and Founder of the award-winning impact-games development company, Filament Games. Dan is an artist and entrepreneur and probably the world’s most prolific games-for-impact developer. We talk about the nuance of how to create a game that engages, educates, and transforms people and we explore what happens when we put art, action, and impact together into an educational game format.
Dan and his team at Filament have created nine games specifically about the environment:
Otter Planet: https://www.habitheque.com/an-otter-planet
Aquation: https://ssec.si.edu/aquation
Climate Champions: https://www.filamentgames.com/project/climate-champions-2/
Citizen Science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxmdvsSuR-g
Land Grab (game jam): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpVcVODuXeU&ab_channel=FilamentGames
EcoKingdoms: https://game-cdn.legendsoflearning.com/content-deploy/4452/EcoKingdoms-Interactions_427/index.html
Resilient Planet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUWoNACJ-7Q
Eco Defenders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfhHhisTrxE
Energy City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIe-HzUodcU
https://www.filamentgames.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/danwhite3/
https://www.instagram.com/filamentgames/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/filament-games/
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