We’re launching the first-ever game ratings based on games’ effects on our personalities, moods and strengths.
From today, Skillprint offers new ratings for games based on a first-of-its-kind pairing of neuroscience research and leading AI technology. Our ratings consider a number of criteria, evaluating games for their effect on a person’s mind and mood - ultimately, we want to help match individual players with the best games for their personalities, specific mood and the skills they want to test or improve.
Skillprint was founded by Chethan Ramachandran and Davin Miyoshi in 2019 out of a desire to see games used for a greater purpose and to help people feel better through gaming. Both founders bring their own unique vision and expertise; Chethan previously founded Playnomics, a predictive analytics company, while Davin founded Mesmo, a social/mobile games company.
Chethan, Davin and the whole of the Skillprint team are focused on exploring the intersection between gaming and cognitive science. We use powerful machine learning technology, building on years of cognitive science research to study how people play games and glean unique insights into an individual’s personality traits, skills and mindset. Now we’re offering unique game ratings, analyzing 135 separate game characteristics to rate and vet games for skills assessment and mood, matching users with personalized game recommendations. These ratings are offered through our own platform at skillprint.co, and we also rate and rank existing third party mobile games. We’re focused on scaling our offering for anyone interested in finding out more about how their own minds work, as well as working with game developers to help them match the right players with their games.
From Chethan:
“Mobile gaming can sometimes get a bad rap, but people often ignore the many and varied benefits of gaming. For years, scientists have used games as a way to test people’s cognitive abilities and learn more about how the mind works; there are numerous studies that show the clinical benefits of using games to reduce stress amongst military personnel.
“It’s very hard to understand how your own mind works - people spend their whole lives trying to figure this out! Who doesn’t want to know more about who they are and feel better? Our hypothesis is that games can do both. We’re blending best in class AI with cognitive science best practices, and building a personalized path for each one of our users to help them leverage games to learn more about themselves, and shift their moods.”
To date, Skillprint has raised $3.5m in previously unannounced pre-seed funding from some of the leading investors at the intersection of games, cognitive science, and human potential. Investors include Shanda Ventures, LearnStart, Niremia Collective, and a number of private individuals with decades of experience and significant clout in the gaming world, including David Helgason (founder of Unity) and Steve Arnold (founder of LucasArts Games, co-founder of Polaris Ventures, Vice-Chair of the George Lucas Educational Foundation).
With a fast growing monthly user base and 40+ curated games already available on our platform, we capture and analyze an average of 1,200 events per active user to predict personality traits and skills.
We’re excited to be helping gamers everywhere understand more about themselves and find the perfect game matches based on our ratings, and we’re looking forward to exploring what else is possible when you bring neuroscience, technology and gaming together.