PlayVS has partnered with Skillprint to bring players meaningful insight into how their gameplay reflects and develops important real-world skills. Skillprint analyzes in-game behavior to surface your unique strengths in areas like decision-making, adaptability, focus, and more.
Background
What is Skillprint?
Skillprint is a platform that assesses cognitive, social, and emotional traits through gameplay. Using neuroscience-based frameworks and machine learning models, it provides personalized insights about how players engage with games and their skills.
What can you expect?
Game Mappings
Skillprint Games
Game Mappings and Skillprint Games can be found on the PlayVS Resources page.
How does Skillprint work?
Skillprint has taken 40+ years of neuroscience research and embedded it into its machine learning platform and games. Games come in and are decoded into their components (such as progression and success conditions).
Through this automation, and looking at activity patterns in games, the platform can analyze any type of game and highlight the key benefits of each game for a player. In addition, Skillprint offers a portal of simple mobile casual games that are curated by different categories around what effect the game has in terms of enhancing the mind. As players interact more with Skillprint, they will start to get more customized game recommendations to help them feel better and get sharper.
Privacy and Participation
Is Skillprint required to play on PlayVS?
No, Skillprint is entirely optional. You can choose to engage with the games to support your esports seasonal participation or not.
What can you expect?
Game Mappings
Skillprint will be analyzing PlayVS games and providing reports about the benefits of the games in terms of how they enhance the mind. Two examples may include:
Skillprint Games
Skillprint also provides an ever evolving set of simple, quick, casual games. These games come sorted by two main categories:
Mood/mindset
Players can find games to help them focus or relax.
Cognition/skill
Players can find games to help them hone their skills such as attention, planning, and task switching.
Skillprint User Profile
Over time, players will generate a Skillprint which is a profile of their unique strengths and skills. This profile gets more specific over time and can give players recommendations on areas that they can lean into in life, or to be better in games.
Aggregated Team Analytics
Coaches can get access to aggregated analytics across their whole team to see what types of games players want to play pre and post match. Coaches also get access to overall organization level statistics. PlayVS and Skillprint will be working with coaches to understand other types of analytics and data that could be helpful in enhancing team performance.
What data is collected by Skillprint?
Skillprint gives each user a sense of progression and a view into their mood, mindset, and cognitive skills over time. This data is collected anonymously through a masked user ID passed to them by PlayVS, with no specific information around personal information.
How should we use this information?
The following ways coaches can use Skillprint include:
Skillprint games can be used before playing a match, as many of them are able to relax or focus a player.
Players can simply select a game from a category based on their desired outcome, and typically, 3-5 minutes of gameplay will be enough to give them the result they are seeking.
The games can be used after a PlayVS tournament as a way to relax, unwind, or if needed, get even sharper.
Over time, the information in a player’s Skillprint can give coaches insight into their gameplay.