Game Development Strategy Guide author Cheryl Platz was honored to join the Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction Seminar series this semester to share insights from her book and late-breaking insights from her recently-completed quarter teaching the third year of her popular Carnegie Mellon MBA class, “What Makes Us Play: The Craft of Video Games.” This talk blended some insights that you can see in other talks about the Motivators of Play with new references to recently-released research and specific examples from student case studies that help reflect how the Motivators show up in our lives. Video to be released in upcoming weeks.
Thank you to the folks at Stanford for hosting this virtual talk – Cheryl would have loved to accept the physical invitation had the travel situation in the country not been so disrupted at the time! We made the best of the situation.
Talk details: https://hci.stanford.edu/seminar/speaker.php?date=2026-04-24
