Game Development – Ideaplatz

07 Oct 2026

Ideaplatz founder Cheryl Platz to explore “Weird Avatars and Wonky Worlds” at Global Innovation Forum in London this November

Game Development, Talks

After a successful year touring with her talk "The Modern Motivators of Play" in support of the launch of The Game Development Strategy Guide a year ago, Cheryl Platz is debuting a new talk inspired by the content from the book based on the prompt "Weird is Good" from this year's Global Innovation Forum. Join her and the rest of the talented lineup on November 18 and 19 from companies like Nike, The LEGO Group, Canva, Save the Children, Pfizer, IKEA, and many independent creatives like Cheryl. Learn more at giflondon.com. Weird Avatars and Wonky Worlds: The Wonders of Self-Expression…

Cheryl Platz chats video game economics with Carl Cleanthes on the Pixel Retentive Podcast

Game Development, Podcasts

In the latest episode of the long-running creative strategy podcast Pixel Retentive, "Is the Gaming Industry Broken?" Cheryl Platz sits down with host Carl Cleanthes to hit a variety of topics: What drives sustainably monetized games (like the power of player self-expression)? The complexities of more recent hypotheses about gaming economies (like Web3 gaming) How deeply rooted cultural storytelling is emerging as an antidote to AI-driven gaming, as inspired by experts on recent episodes of Cheryl's podcast Enduring Play. Coming to terms with the coming console replacement cycle Exploring the devastating layoff cycles that have hit tens of thousands of…

Ideaplatz founder Cheryl Platz shares her Cannes Lions 2026 Juror experience

Awards and Honors, Game Development, Press

Cheryl Platz recently returned from the experience of a lifetime: serving as a juror on the Cannes Entertainment Lions for Gaming Jury for 2026 and as a panelist on the corresponding Inside the Jury Room panel the following Wednesday at the event. She was incredibly honored to participate, and the experience gave her a much deeper exposure to the broader world of video game marketing while giving her an opportunity to represent the ins and outs of video game development to her marketing and agency peers. As Cheryl loves to pay it forward by processing experiences through writing, she's begun…