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
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I’m thrilled to share that the experienced reviewers at Kirkus Reviews appreciated the Strategy Guide’s unique and accessible take on the video game industry, yielding a “Get It” recommendation for their readers. “Platz treats the history of gaming with reverence, mentioning deep
Cheryl is honored to be bringing her first talk from The Game Development Strategy Guide to Seattle Indies SLICE at McCaw Hall on Wednesday, August 27. Cheryl will be delivering a 10-minute microtalk The Modern Motivators of Play that provides data to
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
Sometimes life seems like fiction – but I’m thrilled to announce that I have been honored by an invitation to act as the Toastmaster for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association‘s 58th annual Nebula Awards in Anaheim, California on May 14,
Newly available at both cherylplatz.medium.com and the Riot Games UX Design Medium publication is my latest detailed behind the scenes piece about the exciting and groundbreaking design work we’re doing on behalf of players here at Riot Games. In this first of
Next up on Cheryl’s Medium publication – a look at the cooling wave of digital assistants amid a stalling economy, and what it may mean for voice and multimodal design as an industry. Highlight from the article So what’s changed? What led
Now available: Design Beyond Devices Available now from Rosenfeld Media and all major online booksellers from author and renowned user experience designer Cheryl Platz: Design Beyond Devices: Creating Multimodal, Cross-Device Experiences. This groundbreaking book provides designers, product managers, entrepreneurs, and engineers an
Over the past year, I’ve published a series of posts on the topics of voice user interfaces and conversational user interfaces. While not quite equivalent, these two topics are fundamentally linked, and over the coming years the two experience classes will likely
I opened Pandora’s box today. While idling in traffic, curiosity struck me out of the blue. I’ve been keeping online journals since 1997, give or take, stretched across 4 or so sites. Would any still be active? The answer: my undergrad journal