First Keynote Speaker announced

We are honored to announce that Professor Eric Zimmerman will join PRAXI 2026 as a keynote speaker!

Eric Zimmerman is a game designer and Arts Professor at the NYU Game Center. He designs games on and off the computer that invent new forms of play. A three decade veteran of the game industry, Eric was the co-founder of Gamelab, a studio that created hit games like Diner Dash. Eric was also the co-founder of the Institute of Play, a non-profit that created schools based on games and play as the model for learning across the curriculum. Recent projects include Dear Reader, a game published by Apple that uses classic literature as the basis for word puzzles, and The Green Games Guide, an industry initiative to design and manufacture environmentally sustainable tabletop games. Eric is the co-author of Rules of Play with Katie Salen and more recently The Rules We Break, a book full of the ways he uses games and play to teach design.

At Praxi 2026, Eric will talk about the iterative process of making Dear Reader.

https://ericzimmerman.com/
https://theruleswebreak.com/