Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
THE RULES WE BREAK: Lessons in Play, Thinking, and Design is a design book that asks you to play.
Full of hands-on exercises and thought-provoking essays, THE RULES WE BREAK is based on Eric’s decades of game design teaching - including his many years at the NYU Game Center. Learn new approaches to creative collaboration, group brainstorming, problem solving, design iteration, understanding systems, and communicating ideas — strategies that are useful across any discipline or situation.
The book is structured in three parts: PLAY, SYSTEMS, and DESIGN. Redesign the rules of Tic-Tac-Toe; compose an interactive story on a deck of blank cards; conceive, design, and playtest original projects; and more. No computers required.
Join us for an interactive evening where Eric will lead us through exercises from the book, talk about the ideas underlying his approach to design education, and dialog with NYU Game Center Director Naomi Clark.
More info about the book can be found at theruleswebreak.com
This talk was streamed live at twitch.tv/NYUGameCenter on Thursday, December 1st, 2022
Splash music is Solace by Qix provided to us by Martin Nayeri qixx.bandcamp.com/releases
THE RULES WE BREAK: Lessons in Play, Thinking, and Design is a design book that asks you to play.
Full of hands-on exercises and thought-provoking essays, THE RULES WE BREAK is based on Eric’s decades of game design teaching - including his many years at the NYU Game Center. Learn new approaches to creative collaboration, group brainstorming, problem solving, design iteration, understanding systems, and communicating ideas — strategies that are useful across any discipline or situation.
The book is structured in three parts: PLAY, SYSTEMS, and DESIGN. Redesign the rules of Tic-Tac-Toe; compose an interactive story on a deck of blank cards; conceive, design, and playtest original projects; and more. No computers required.
Join us for an interactive evening where Eric will lead us through exercises from the book, talk about the ideas underlying his approach to design education, and dialog with NYU Game Center Director Naomi Clark.
More info about the book can be found at theruleswebreak.com
This talk was streamed live at twitch.tv/NYUGameCenter on Thursday, December 1st, 2022
Splash music is Solace by Qix provided to us by Martin Nayeri qixx.bandcamp.com/releases
