Welcome back to Health Points! Here to kick off Series 2, we have Noah Falstein joining us.

Together we explore the evolution of video games through to the foundations of health gamification. Taking health gamification to the front cover of the scientific journal Nature, and the test, fail, learn approach that pioneered the gamification frameworks we see in the industry and education today

Noah has been a professional game developer since 1980 with many hit title credits and was an early hire at LucasArts, 3DO, and Dreamworks Interactive. Most recently he was Google's Chief Game Designer. His freelance design business, The Inspiracy is focused on games for health, specifically neurogaming. The Inspiracy has offered design and production consulting for. Noah also lectures and conducts seminars on game design and development, for both traditional and serious games. Noah is Executive Advisor for Akili Interactive, advising Akili on the development and design of some of their upcoming neurogaming software designed to help with a variety of neurological conditions through gameplay

He has chapters published in six different game industry books, and is working on his own book about game design issues.