The Rules We Break: Lessons in Play, Thinking, and Design - Softcover

Zimmerman, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1648960677 ISBN 13: 9781648960673

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2022

Synopsis

Whether you're a game player, a designer of any kind, or someone who wants to know more about design, The Rules We Break will open your mind to creative and thought-provoking approaches to design. Play through more than 20 hands-on, real-world games and exercises to explore how people think, how games and systems work, and how to move through a creative process.
 
Everyone can learn from game design: interaction designers and software developers, graphic designers and urban planners, kids in after-school programs and university students studying design. This collection of interactive games and exercises is designed to help you consider new ways of approaching productive collaboration, creative problem solving, analysis of systems, and how to communicate ideas, providing skills you can use in any discipline or situation.
 
These real-world exercises are designed to be played on tabletops, as playground-style physical games, and via social interactions with others in person or online. A wide range of entertaining, thought-provoking games, exercises, and short essays grow in complexity over the course of the book, from 20 minutes of play to design projects that last for days or weeks. Award-winning game designer Eric Zimmerman invites you to play your way through it all, learning about play, systems, and design along the way.

About this title

About the Author

Eric Zimmerman is a game designer and professor of game design at the NYU Game Center, a program he helped design at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He lives in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1648960677
• ISBN 13: 9781648960673
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208