Filament Games' Energy City and Coaster Creator: 2010 CODiE Finalists

Filament Games, an educational game studio in Madison, Wisconsin, developed a set of three physical-science games for JASON Science. In March 2010 the suite was announced as a finalist for the SIIA CODiE Awards in the category Best Education Game or Simulation.

The CODiE Awards began in 1986 as the Excellence in Software Awards, set up by the Software Publishers Association, now the Software & Information Industry Association. They are described as the only peer-reviewed awards program in the software and information industry, with members judging each other's work. The 2010 edition was the twenty-fourth. Only the finalist listing is stated here; no winner announcement for the category was reviewed.

Energy City puts the player in charge of a city's energy portfolio. The goal is to balance economic, social and environmental concerns, negotiate with stakeholders and generate enough power for a growing population.

Transform It! follows energy from source to use. Players assemble furnaces, turbines and generators to convert one form of energy, such as the chemical energy in coal, into a form that can power a target such as a giant robot.

Coaster Creator is a design game about potential and kinetic energy. The player works as a roller coaster engineer, sets the mass and look of the coaster, builds a track with drops and loops, and tries for a high-scoring ride that thrills riders and still uses up all its energy before the track ends.

All three games center on energy: how a city obtains it, how it changes form and how a ride loses it.

Filament Games is still working. Its website loads in November 2026 and describes the company as an educational game studio with science games for learners of all ages. Its own roundup of science projects does not mention Energy City, Transform It!, Coaster Creator or JASON,.

A web search found no other official page that offers the three games. They are listed here as unconfirmed. Nothing from the studio or from JASON says they were retired, so the reason they are missing from the studio's site is not known.

The studio's own roundup says the company dates to 2005 and has made science games for learners of all ages, so the company is active even though the suite is not mentioned there.