Every book Eric Zimmerman recommended on podcasts

Books recommended by Eric Zimmerman

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   Interaction of Color

   Josef Albers · Discussed · 1 episode

   Discussed

   “He wrote this amazing book called Interaction of Color. Imagine that you have two little tall rectangles of color. Let's say that they were both kind of like a pinkish yellow or something like that.”

   Freakonomics Radio 675. Has the New York Times Become a Games Company? 2026-05-15 ▶ Play 11:52

   Where to get it

   AmazonListen on Audible
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   Rules of Play

   Katie Salen Tekinbas; Eric Zimmerman · Discussed · 1 episode

   Discussed

   “On the one hand, a lot of my career as a game designer and then later as a writer working with Katie Salen to write Rules of Play, starting to teach game design with Frank Lantz at NYU and now I've been teaching for 30 years, I really was interested in, okay, what would be the line, color, and composition”

   Freakonomics Radio 675. Has the New York Times Become a Games Company? 2026-05-15 ▶ Play 13:06

   Where to get it

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Books Eric Zimmerman wrote

• Rules of Play

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