Announcement

2023 Critical Distance Update

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I’m here to provide a look at the financial side of Critical Distance. In 2022 we needed to run an emergency GoFundMe to fix our tax status, and that’s not a place I want us to be again. After fixing our tax…

Critical Distance Patreon Update

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Hello readers! First, and I don’t say this often enough, I’d like to thank everybody here–readers, supporters, folks who point us in the direction of articles, who hang out on our Discord–everyone, for sticking with us over the last 13 years and…

Book Launch: Pandemics & Games Essay Jam (Online)

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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…

Announcing: The List Jam

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An (incomplete) list of functions of lists, as a prelude to List Jam: I feel like “lists” are seen as a shallow or resented element of games criticism online, like the inevitable churn of year end lists that reinforce the need to…

Pandemics and games essay jam

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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…

Announcing: the Bitsy essay jam

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The essay is a flexible format that allows its author to communicate, work through, and explore thoughts without traditional formal barriers. The content of essays can be personal, literary, historical, philosophical, aesthetic, and is often a combination of many topics, perspectives, and…