Book Launch: Pandemics & Games Essay Jam (Online)

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…

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Sonia Fizek | Keywords in Play, Episode 9

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…

Pandemics and games essay jam

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…

Malath Abbas | Keywords in Play, Episode 7

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…

Eli Smith | Keywords in Play, Episode 5

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…