Eric Zimmerman has been working in the game industry for ten years. He is the CEO of gameLab, a game development company based in New York City that he co-founded with Peter Lee. gameLab has created award-winning games for clients like LEGO, Microsoft, and Ragdoll. He is also a part-time academic, with teaching experience at MIT, New York University, Parsons School of Design, and School of Visual Arts. Eric has spoken and published widely about game design, game development, and game culture and has two books coming out over the next year.

Born in Sacramento, he moved to Los Angeles for college and then entered the video game industry shortly after, in 1999.