| Rules of play: Game design fundamentals KS Tekinbas, E Zimmerman MIT press, 2003 | 12352 | 2003 |
| Narrative, interactivity, play, and games: Four naughty concepts in need of discipline E Zimmerman First person: New media as story, performance, and game 154, 2004 | 466 | 2004 |
| The game design reader: A rules of play anthology KS Tekinbas, E Zimmerman MIT press, 2005 | 442 | 2005 |
| Regras do jogo, v. 3: Fundamentos do design de jogos K Salen, E Zimmerman Editora Blucher, 2012 | 409 | 2012 |
| Gaming literacy: Game design as a model for literacy in the twenty-first century E Zimmerman The video game theory reader 2, 45-54, 2008 | 349 | 2008 |
| Game design and meaningful play K Salen, E Zimmerman Handbook of computer game studies 59, 79, 2005 | 232 | 2005 |
| Manifesto for a ludic century E Zimmerman The gameful world: Approaches, issues, applications, 19-22, 2015 | 227 | 2015 |
| Play as research: The iterative design process E Zimmerman Design research: Methods and perspectives 2003, 176-184, 2003 | 212 | 2003 |
| Jerked around by the magic circle-clearing the air ten years later E Zimmerman Gamasutra. com 7, 2012 | 156 | 2012 |
| The game design reader K Salen, E Zimmerman A Rules of Play Anthology, 2006 | 80 | 2006 |
| Do independent games exist E Zimmerman The History and Culture of Videogames. London: Laurence King Publishing, 120-9, 2002 | 79 | 2002 |
| Manifesto: The 21st century will be defined by games E Zimmerman, H Chaplin Kotaku. com, 2013 | 57 | 2013 |
| Rules of play: Fundamentals of game design K Salen, E Zimmerman MIT Press Cambridge, 2003 | 50 | 2003 |
| This is not a game: Play in cultural environments K Salen, E Zimmerman Proceedings of DiGRA 2003 Conference: Level Up, 2003 | 41 | 2003 |
| Replay: Game Design and Game Culture (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies, V. 18) A Scholder, E Zimmerman Peter Lang Publishing, 2003 | 32 | 2003 |
| Against hypertext E Zimmerman American Letters & Commentary 12, 77-82, 2000 | 29 | 2000 |
| Learning to Play to Learn N Fortugno, E Zimmerman Lessons in Educational Game Design, 2005 | 24 | 2005 |
| Measurement of the correlation spectrum of electrostatic potential fluctuations in an ECRH Helimak plasma ED Zimmerman, SC Luckhardt Journal of fusion energy 12, 289-293, 1993 | 18 | 1993 |
| A playcentric approach to creating innovative games T Fullerton Game Design Workshop, 2008 | 14 | 2008 |
| Narrative, Interactivity, Play, and Games. First Person. N. Wardrip-Fruin and P. Harrigan E Zimmerman MIT Press, 2004 | 9 | 2004 |
