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		<title>The loyal opposition to endings in games</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had not heard of the Jace Hall show, but being a glutton for attention, I provided them with a quote when they asked for my thoughts on their selection of the top 50 videogame endings. My response &#8211; perhaps predictably &#8211; was that &#8220;endings&#8221; aren&#8217;t something intrinsic to videogames and in fact most of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericzimmerman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14885045&amp;post=631&amp;subd=ericzimmerman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Metagame at GDC 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Metagame is returning to GDC in just a couple weeks. In 2011, the Metagame was born at GDC, where 3,000 players argued and debated videogames between sessions, over lunches and meetings, and at bars and parties at night. Local No. 12 is running another massively multiplayer Metagame this year, with hopefully even more players. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericzimmerman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14885045&amp;post=623&amp;subd=ericzimmerman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jerked around by the Magic Circle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week an article I wrote appeared in Gamasutra.com, a website dedicated to the game development community. The article is Jerked around by the Magic Circle &#8211; Clearing the Air Ten Years Later. It&#8217;s about the seminal &#8220;magic circle&#8221; concept that has been plaguing game design and game studies, for better or for worse, since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericzimmerman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14885045&amp;post=615&amp;subd=ericzimmerman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Metagame update</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Metagame, the collectable card game about videogames I created with Local No. 12, has been steamrolling forward, carrying Colleen Macklin, John Sharp, and I along with it. Over the winter holidays, we received more shipments of the game, and sold several hundred more decks. A great write-up by Kirk Hamilton in Kotaku, including a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericzimmerman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14885045&amp;post=605&amp;subd=ericzimmerman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Game Center MFA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been part of the NYU Game Center since it started, and we&#8217;ve recently made an important announcement: we are starting our MFA program. The Game Center MFA has been in the works for years, and it&#8217;s amazing that we can finally start taking applications for our first class that will begin in the fall [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericzimmerman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14885045&amp;post=601&amp;subd=ericzimmerman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ericzimmerman.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t made any kind of big announcement yet, but I just launched a new version of my site ericzimmerman.com &#8211; with a design that is more visual and allows for better browsing of my games, writings, and other assorted works. Right now there are only a handful of projects there &#8211; I have my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericzimmerman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14885045&amp;post=596&amp;subd=ericzimmerman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Design of Starry Heavens</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Raymond Yeung) Mary Couzin, a toy industry diva who runs the popular and eclectic Global Toy News blog, approached me this past fall about writing something about Starry Heavens, the installation I created with Nathalie Pozzi for the MoMA Kill Screen Arcade event in July 2011. I wrote up my thoughts on the design, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericzimmerman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14885045&amp;post=589&amp;subd=ericzimmerman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Brooklyn Game Ensemble</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost a year ago, I started meeting with local NYC game developers Naomi Clark, Josh DeBonis, Nathalie Pozzi , and Kristopher Schlachter, with the idea of making some kind of indie, experimental game. I had worked with Naomi and Josh at Gamelab (and elsewhere), and Nathalie and I of course work together on our museum games. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericzimmerman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14885045&amp;post=584&amp;subd=ericzimmerman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Press on Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Last weekend, PRACTICE happened. The conference &#8211; which I helped plan and organize with the other good folks at the NYU Game Center &#8211; brought together board and card game designers, videogame designers, and even the Secretary of the NCAA Rules Committee for a weekend of passionate presentations and debate about game design. But don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericzimmerman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14885045&amp;post=576&amp;subd=ericzimmerman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I loved this tumbler piece about Indiecade &#8211; visual notes from several sessions, including the talk Nathalie and I gave on the Experimental Gameplay Sessions panel. This interview from a business journal about the NYU Game Center is a great overview of our curriculum philosophy. Here is an article on Joystick Division about the Culture Edition [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericzimmerman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14885045&amp;post=561&amp;subd=ericzimmerman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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