Neuroscience practitioners need specific game mechanics and gamification approaches.Game designer and developers need understandable toolsets empowered with neuroscience approaches.Let’s give them NAPI-GAPI.A platform with two sided APIs supporting neuroscience for games and games for neuroscience!

1. Playful Neurons
Alireza Ranjbar Shourabi
@ARSHourabi
Alireza.r.shourabi@gmail.com

2. @ARSHourabi
 @ALMgames
◦ Owner / Co-founder
◦ Art of Light and Motion Animation/Game studio (12
years)
 @SpatialWits
◦ Co-founder
◦ Gamification Designer (Neuroscience startup)
 @Faranesh (@KSNA)
◦ Gamification Designer (e-Learning platform startup)
 @FANAP
◦ Gamification Consultant (e-Commerce)
 @IGA : Iran Gamification Association

4. Neuroscience and Games

5. Hackathons and Game Jams

6. Neuroscience and Games
 Neuroscience empowering games
 Games helping neuroscience

7. Can we say the difference?

8. Neuroscience Empowering Games
 NeuroGaming
◦ Augmented reality
◦ Virtual Reality
◦ Haptic sensation systems
 Taking away the limitations
◦ EEG
◦ Voice
◦ Emotion

9. iMotions

10. Emotiv

11. Games Helping Neuroscience
 Measurement and Data
◦ Scientific approach
◦ NeuroMarketing
◦ …
 Teaching and Learning
◦ Healthcare
◦ Education
◦ National Defense

15. SpatialWits

16. Conclusion
 Neuroscientist need specific game
mechanics and gamification approaches
 Game designer and developers need
understandable toolsets empowered with
neuroscience approaches
 Let’s give them NAPI-GAPI
◦ A platform with two sided APIs supporting
neuroscience for games and games for
neuroscience!

17. Thank you!
Alireza Ranjbar Shourabi
@ARSHourabi
Alireza.r.shourabi@gmail.com