New book out in November. https://t.co/RmtxtrecqQ

Hey @winstontseng - I'm reaching out to invite you as a guest speaker in a class I'm teaching. (See the note I sent you via instagram - hope you can make it!) -eric

Later this week: I'm running an online workshop with @KillScreen and @AIGAdesign. Come join us to play around, learn some of the fundamentals of game design, and see how you might integrate games into your professional and creative practice. More info:

If you happen to be near Helsinki in Feb: • @nakworks and I at GamesNow!: https://t.co/qc1MqtyKTW • workshop at Aalto University (open to anyone): https://t.co/C4D40wD9Jq • plus game design talks and workshops in Lapland (and possibly Taalinn, Estonia too!)

Later this week: join me at @KillScreen for an online game design workshop where we will be playing, modding, and designing. It's a solid intro to ideas and methods for designing games - whether you are already in the games world or just game-curious. https://t.co/TS6VqcTISv

The guide is live TODAY! Please do go and have a look at

Tonight at the NYU Game Center: <<THE RULES WE BREAK>> A new book that teaches design through play. Thu Dec 1 • 7pm ET to play games • sample the book • discuss ideas Stream it here: https://t.co/d3rECtUjRA RSVP to attend: https://t.co/8wH2QaDQma

Game Designer and author of The Rules We Break: Lessons in Play, Thinking, and Design, @zimmermaneric helps us discover how learning to play can keep us from being played. Stream, support, and subscribe 🎶 https://t.co/Sxm1PwCyRD

huge thanks to: editor Jennifer Thompson and everyone at https://t.co/SsHHAveF4m book designer Benjamin English https://t.co/q5MtKUyjZd @amelie_lebleu, @cperdigou, and Zoé Langris at https://t.co/lSpY2NIPLD for the sustainable website

Big thread warning: the 2022 @NYUGameCenter spring showcase opens soon! I'll be tweeting photos, screenshots & trailers of new games all evening. It's the time of year when little buds of game burst into playful, hilarious, awesome, weird, glitchy, unexpected blossoms. And frogs.

Coming up in about 15 minutes on https://t.co/IIcggEsjdx — our second in a series of greater-NYC speaking events, this month featuring @EthanRedd of Virtuoso Neomedia, talking about style, substance, action, GameCube aesthetics and much more!

Thanks to @jofsharp for being a friend, sparking our first collaboration and introducing us - and to @lewis_gordon, who spoke about the impact of design and games on the climate and the planet - something we are trying to integrate more into our thinking and into our work.

Tomorrow @nakworks and I are talking about materials, space, and why we stopped building games. 1pm ET - free to register at Clash of Realities online. https://t.co/2ofLR6PopS

Next week @nakworks and I are speaking at #ClashOfRealities about materiality and our architectural / game collaborations. The whole conference is online and free! https://t.co/2ofLR6PopS

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For my fellow NYCers - this voting guide is the best I've found to make sure progressive dems get the noms: https://t.co/yNpd3uGwob

Game design.

There’s a humility in putting your own sensibility aside to help someone realize theirs. And there’s an art to giving a brutally rigorous critique that is also kind and caring. This is something I’m still working on myself.

And BTW: this doesn’t mean a crit can’t be critical - it’s called a critique, after all! Direct and honest is best. If there is a repugnant idea that is spoiling a design, your aim should be to point that out and provide some alternative approaches.

That's in stark contrast to a critical exchange on social media, where the goal is to convince, shout down, or just dismiss the person or point of view you are critiquing. To give a thoughtful crit is intrinsically humanizing. You have to adopt another's point of view.