Digitalmill is a consulting and development firm focused on games, videogames, and their related technologies led by Ben Sawyer.
Based in Freeport, Maine, just north of Portland, Digitalmill helps innovative projects, works with great teams, and seeks to advance the use of games for entertainment and non-entertainment purposes.
Our services & interests include:
 Game design & production management
          
We help build all types & styles of games, offering useful collaboration toward final product. Our specialty is design & production for non-entertainment purposes such as education, health, scientific discovery, productivity, and more.
 Startup projects & companies
          
We advise startups and established projects, assisting for-profit/non-profit enterprises to use games & game technologies.
 Consulting & Research
          
We help organizations understand videogames, their cultures, technologies, and business dynamics to enable their missions.
          
          
Following many activities across academic fields studying games and game technologies; fostering R&D and collaborative opportunities with leading researchers & institutions worldwide.
 Communities & Events
          
With our extensive experience we can be instrumental in starting important new communities of practice and related events in the videogame field. We can implement and execute events for internal and public purposes to advance conversations,
          collaborations, and promotion of game-related interest areas.
1997 Founded 
            
            
1999 First Game: Virtual U 
            
            
2001 Independent Games Festival Finalist 
            
            
2002 Co-founded Serious Games Initiative 
            
            
2003 Independent Publisher Book Award Finalist 
            
            
2004 Founded Serious Games Summit Event 
            
            
2004 Co-founded Games for Health Project 
            
            
2013 SxSW: Dewey Winburne Service Award 
            
            
2013 First Board Game: Pathways to Quality 
            
            
2014 Games + Crowds Conference  
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 
            
American Public Media 
            
BP 
            
Cadbury 
            
Cisco 
            
Citigroup 
            
Connecticut Health Foundation 
            
DARPA 
            
EDC 
            
Elsevier 
            
Games for Health Europe  
            
General Services Administration  
            
Georgia Tech University 
            
Hilton Humana 
            
Intel 
            
Kaiser Permanente 
            
Leimandt Foundation 
            
Lockheed Martin 
            
Megabourse AB 
            
New England Journal of Medicine 
            
NIH 
            
Play2Prevent 
            
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 
            
Society of the Cincinnati 
            
Space Science Institute 
            
SportzSafe 
            
STFJ, LLC 
            
University of Pennsylvania 
            
United Media 
            
USAID 
            
The Wilson Center 
            
Yale School of Medicine  
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