The Art of Designing Games for Impact, Education and Action, Dan White CEO Filament Games Ep51

<p>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.</p> <p>Dan and his team at Filament have created nine games specifically about the environment:</p> <p>Otter Planet:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.habitheque.com/an-otter-planet ">https://www.habitheque.com/an-otter-planet&nbsp;</a></p> <p>Aquation:&nbsp;<a href="https://ssec.si.edu/aquation " target="_blank">https://ssec.si.edu/aquation&nbsp;</a></p> <p>Climate Champions:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.filamentgames.com/project/climate-champions-2/ ">https://www.filamentgames.com/project/climate-champions-2/&nbsp;</a></p> <p>Citizen Science:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxmdvsSuR-g " target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxmdvsSuR-g&nbsp;</a></p> <p>Land Grab (game jam):&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpVcVODuXeU&amp;ab_channel=FilamentGames ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpVcVODuXeU&amp;ab_channel=FilamentGames&nbsp;</a></p> <p>EcoKingdoms:&nbsp;<a href="https://game-cdn.legendsoflearning.com/content-deploy/4452/EcoKingdoms-Interactions_427/index.html " target="_blank">https://game-cdn.legendsoflearning.com/content-deploy/4452/EcoKingdoms-Interactions_427/index.html&nbsp;</a></p> <p>Resilient Planet:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUWoNACJ-7Q " target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUWoNACJ-7Q&nbsp;</a></p> <p>Eco Defenders:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfhHhisTrxE " target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfhHhisTrxE&nbsp;</a></p> <p>Energy City:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIe-HzUodcU " target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIe-HzUodcU&nbsp;</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.fi