Prayas Abhinav was born in 1982. He practised independently from 1999 to 2005. Then he did an advanced diploma in Experimental Media Arts (EMA) at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology from 2007 to 2009. From 2010-2013, he was a faculty and artist-in-residence at Srishti. From 2013-2016 he taught numerous courses at National Institute of Design (NID), CEPT University and Indus University. In 2024 he joined Anant National University as an Assistant Professor in the Interaction Design department.
He founded a game design studio called Nonserious Games in 2018. It wound up operations in 2022.
He has done numerous public art projects, designed digital and board games, led the Museum of Vestigial Desire from 2012 to 2016 and worked as an artist and curator who showed at The Guild Gallery (Mumbai) from 2011-2013. He has also done numerous projects with Khoj International Artists' Association in Delhi.
His complete CV can be downloaded here, bio from here and portfolio here. Prayas lives with his family in Ahmedabad, India.
An upcoming research project with Dhruv Jani studies "Anti-Games: Building Playful Experiences That Know When to End" - exploring attention-restoring alternatives to addictive game design. This research addresses the critical gap between failed digital detox interventions and the urgent need for scalable quality of life improvements in our digitally-saturated era. Anti-Games offers a radical alternative: digital experiences that actively build resistance to addictive design patterns while improving measurable quality of life indicators.
He has also developed AgentJS, a comprehensive TypeScript framework for agent-based modeling that makes complex systems modeling accessible to developers, researchers, and educators.
email, github (my experiments with building web apps), linkedin
Last updated on August 16th, 2025