I interviewed the director of the gaming documentary Gaming in Color, Philip Jones. This was a bit different from the other interviews, as it seems every interview in this series is, that instead of a whole body of work that I could discuss we focused solely on a single piece, …
This month I interview Scotsman YouTuber Kevin John for the Critical Distance Confab. We’re getting closer and closer to the present day. Going in chronological order means that the later interviews will be with people who have started not so long ago. Cagey, as he calls himself, started less than …
On this episode of the Critical Distance Confab, I interview Heather Alexandra. It seems there is much variety on YouTube when it comes to video game criticism. This is my 11th interview with video producer and only now do I get to talk to someone about Let’s Plays. Heather Alexandra …
It’s a little late, but the first episode of the Critical Distance Confab for 2017 is up. I interview Max Barnyard about his YouTube show Great Levels in Gaming. We were migrating the server, so uploading the actual mp3 got delayed by several days. This is January’s episode and, despite …
Has it really been seven years of me doing This Year In Video Game Blogging. Good lord. I hate myself for doing this. Without a doubt, every time I do this project I hate myself and promise myself outrageous things like, “I’m never doing it again.” It’s painful, exhausting and …
The November episode of the Critical Distance Confab is finally out. Continuing in chronological order brings up to Mr. Mark Brown of Game Maker’s Toolkit. I do feel like I should apologize for this podcast being so late. Though probably in the end it was best I didn’t hit the …
Last week, we released our newest interview on the Critical Distance Confab featuring Sam Gronseth, the Game Professor. His whole project emerged out of a class he taught using games to teach literary analysis and critical thinking. From that he created a series of videos to explain the basics of …
I’m sorry this is a few weeks late. I wanted it out on time and instead the unedited audio just sat on my desktop for a month, mocking me. Let that not reflect on my interview with Ian Danskin about his work on his YouTube channel Innuendo Studios. We cover …
This month on the Critical Distance Confab I interviewed Bob Whitaker, the man in charge of the History Respawned YouTube channel. What Bob does is not too dissimilar from what I do. Though instead of interviewing critics, he interviews academics and scholars about their field of expertise through the lens …
We’re back to our series on video based game critics over on the Critical Distance Confab. This month I interviewed the long-form essayist Noah Caldwell-Gervais. The episode is up on iTunes, so please rate and review the podcast. It would be much appreciated.