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NYU Game Center Adds Game Designer and Author Zimmerman

By pete_gallagher

The NYU Game Center had added Game Designer Eric Zimmerman (pictured) to its ranks as Visiting Assistant Art Professor.

Zimmerman is co-author, with Katie Salen, of the game design book Rules of Play and was a co-founder of Gamelab, which created a range of games including Diner Dash. Zimmerman has already helped to plan the curriculum for the GameCenter over the past year and will teach Introduction to Game Design and Advanced Game Design courses at the school.

NYU Game Center Interim Chair Frank Lantz said of Zimmerman's appointment, 'His addition on a full-time basis is an indication of the Game Center's commitment to bringing together the most important and influential scholars and designers in the field in order to build a world-class program in game design.'

The NYU Game Center was started in 2008 and is described as 'an independent, multi-school center for the research, design and development of digital games.'
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on August 25, 2010 (boomark / email).