"Where is all the good writing about games?"
What would happen if you analysed games beginning with the question, ‘what is the first choice that the player makes?’ In First Foot Forward February, we’re collecting critical perspectives on games that focus on the earliest moment of player agency. In some…
Event Details Date: March 26, 2022 1pm – 2pm Eastern time Location: Discord Join Critical Distance and Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination for the launch of our new, free ebook, Sickness, Systems, Solidarity, which explores the tangled relationships between pandemics and…
Download “Keywords in Play” is an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association. C. Thi Nguyen is a former food writer, now a philosophy professor at University of Utah. He writes about trust, art,…
Before we get started, I want to briefly mention that this week we are running an essay jam on the topic of the pandemic and games – if this roundup brings up some thoughts about what 2020 was like for games, this…
Download “Keywords in Play” is an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association. This episode’s guest is Sonia Fizek, to discuss a forthcoming book on ‘delegated’ and ‘interpassive’ play. Sonia is a digital wanderer…
Following our bitsy essay jam, we’re announcing another jam event, this time for micro-essays, brought to you in partnership with the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University! The global cataclysm of COVID-19, and the quarantines and social distancing…
Download “Keywords in Play” is an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association. This episode we speak with Lindsay Grace about love and affection in games. Lindsay is Knight Chair in Interactive Media and an…
Download “Keywords in Play” is an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association. This episode we speak with Mal Abbas, an independent game designer, artist and producer working on experimental and meaningful games. Malath…
Download “Keywords in Play” is an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association. This episode we speak with Dr Jamie Woodcock. Jamie is a researcher based in London. He is the author of…
Download “Keywords in Play” is an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association. This episode we have a departure from academia; a different approach to the creation and transmission of knowledge. We interview…