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Eric Zimmerman

Eric Zimmerman is the co-founder and CEO of gameLab, a game development company based in New York City. gameLab has created award-winning online games for LEGO.com, HBO, Shockwave.com, and Microsoft’s Gaming Zone. gameLab specializes in experimental games, with projects that range from a museum commission from the Center for Global Dialog in Zurich to a collaboration with NYC high school students and the non-profit Global Kids to create a game about racial profiling. Eric has taught game design and related courses at MIT, New York University, and the New School University. He has lectured and published extensively on game design and digital culture. He is the co-author with Katie Salen of Rules of Play (MIT Press, 2003) and the co-editor of RE:PLAY with Amy Scholder (Peter Lang Press, 2003), Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals
Katie Salen & Eric Zimmerman, MIT Press 2004, The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology
Edited by Katie Salen & Eric Zimmerman, MIT Press 2006

http://www.ericzimmerman.com/

Making and Breaking Rules: Game Design as a Critical Practice

Games are one of the most ancient forms of designed interactivity. And even today, games provide some of the nest examples of truly engaging, technologically mediated, social experience. But do we really know what games are, how they function, and how they can be designed for meaningful experiences? This talk will explore some of the fundamentals of game design, with an eye towards understanding how they operate as designed structures, as human experience, and as culture. In concert with these ideas, Eric will present a model game design as a model for an emerging form of literacy that will be increasingly important in the coming century.