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27 Aug 2025

Author Cheryl Platz launches book tour for The Game Development Strategy Guide at Seattle Indies SLICE on August 27

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Explore changes in player motivations backed by theory and data paired with ideas in Cheryl’s microtalk “The Modern Motivators of Play” at McCaw Hall SEATTLE, WA, UNITED STATES, August 26, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Author, game developer, and creative director Cheryl Platz is honored to be launching the book tour for her new book, The Game Development Strategy Guide: Creating Modern Video Games That Thrive, with a microtalk intended to help indie game developers recalibrate their understanding of what drives today’s demanding video game fans based on industry scholarship, research, and data - all while gamers and game developers from around the…

19 Aug 2025

New Game Development Podcast: ‘Enduring Play’ Explores Thriving Games and Studios With Industry Veterans

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Press Release: New Podcast Launched Today by Ideaplatz, LLC Level up your game development career at any stage of the game with 10 candid interviews that explore the best and the worst of modern video game development. BELLEVUE, WA, UNITED STATES, August 19, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- It’s time to level up your game development career by learning from a series of engaging and candid conversations with game development veterans passionate about building a better industry in Enduring Play: A Game Development Podcast, launching today on all major podcast networks. Explore what it takes to create thriving video games and game development…

19 Aug 2025

Enduring Play: A Game Development Podcast now available on all major platforms!

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It’s time to level up your game development career by learning from a series of engaging and candid conversations with game development veterans passionate about building a better industry in Enduring Play: A Game Development Podcast, launching today on all major podcast networks. Explore what it takes to create thriving video games and game development studios with host Cheryl Platz – creative director, faculty member in video gaming at Carnegie Mellon University, and author of the upcoming book The Game Development Strategy Guide: Crafting Video Games That Thrive. The first season of the Enduring Play podcast brings 10 of the…

15 Jul 2025

Ideaplatz now on YouTube and BlueSky!

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In preparation for the launch of Cheryl's new book The Game Development Strategy Guide, Ideaplatz is moving into new digital neighborhoods: BlueSky and YouTube. We're celebrating the move to YouTube by posting some hard-to-find archival talks from Cheryl's past. Ideaplatz on YouTube In support of our podcast, we've launched a YouTube channel. To kick things off, enjoy a selection of archival content that's hard to find elsewhere on the internet, including several talks no longer available due to the unfortunate loss of some of the Interaction Design Association's conference archives: Interaction 19: When the Void Shouts Back Topics: Livestreaming, gaming,…

24 Jul 2023

Fail Limit Exceeded: Cheryl on the decline of Twitter

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Cheryl's recent post for Medium on June's rate limit "feature" release was promoted as a Staff Pick, sent out in several large-distribution Medium newsletters including Longreads, and met with some great discussion and discourse. In this piece, Cheryl breaks down the potentially unintended consequences of these restrictions and how they cut to the core of what made Twitter so special. She also uses the PICS framework from her book Design Beyond Devices to talk about how to evaluate decisions like this in the future. Read "Fail Limit Exceeded" on Medium. "Either way, Twitter has successfully pivoted from the world’s town square…

28 Aug 2019

Design Beyond Devices: Cheryl’s upcoming book for Rosenfeld Media

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Exciting news: Cheryl has signed with UX industry stalwarts Rosenfeld Media to publish her first book, Design Beyond Devices, in late 2020. In Cheryl's own words: In Design Beyond Devices, I’ll explore the wide and complex systems, UX design, and service design required for truly multimodal, cross-device experiences. Whether you're grappling with multiple input modalities like touch and voice for the first time, or grappling with the end-to-end considerations for a multi-device ecosystem, you'll walk away with new frameworks and tools for deconstructing these complex problems into more manageable patterns and features. Ready to explore the final frontier of product…

22 Oct 2018

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Featured on BBC Radio’s “The Digital Human”

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Ideaplatz founder Cheryl Platz had the honor of speaking with BBC Radio 4's venerable program, "The Digital Human". The episode, entitled "Subservience", explores our relationship with our digital assistants - and how that relationship may unintentionally influence our relationships with other humans. The episode aired live on Oct 22, 2018 and is available on demand from the BBC website here. Podcast links will be updated here once available. Did the conversation spark ideas? Are you a business owner looking to explore conversational UI, or a designer looking to learn how to deliver voice designs? A few ways you can get…