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dotzip @dotzip.online · 14h

Thank you! We loved the game!!!

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𝐒𝐊𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐓𝐇𝐔𝐆 ✉ [ DEAD LETTER DEPT. ] @skullthug.bsky.social · 14h

dotzip podcast played DEAD LETTER DEPT. and it was quite entertaining to hear them discuss their various differences in the game and their working theories [many spoilers within]

dotzip @dotzip.online · 2d

This week we talk about mechanical-keyboard-simulator DEAD LETTER DEPT. There's also something in there about your job slowly sucking the life out of you or something?? Idk, I only remember the keyboard sounds.

Listen here! - share.transistor.fm/s/efeb863a

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dotzip @dotzip.online · 2d

This week we talk about mechanical-keyboard-simulator DEAD LETTER DEPT. There's also something in there about your job slowly sucking the life out of you or something?? Idk, I only remember the keyboard sounds.

Listen here! - share.transistor.fm/s/efeb863a

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dotzip @dotzip.online · 7d

Thank you so much for making such an incredible game!!

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dotzip @dotzip.online · 7d

Support real art by real people about real emotion and existential quandaries!!!!!

CHIPPY🌟🍉 @kalechipskid.bsky.social · 8d

shutdown is the game that keeps getting snatched up and reuploaded to AI riddled websites. some of them want your money, but me? i am so nice i only want your comments and ratings, and those cost nothing. 4 minutes in browser you will be SOOO enriched 😇
kale-chips.itch.io/shutdown

shutdown. by kalechips

A few moments, and then you're gone.

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dotzip @dotzip.online · 9d

AJ’s streaming The Cabin Factory with their beautiful, wonderful fiance Tara!

Watch here!: twitch.tv/dotziponline

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The Cabin Factory with AJ's beautiful, wonderful fiance Tara who makes the show art!

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dotzip @dotzip.online · 9d

Imagine a world where a scientist could take away your ability to Post. Sccaaaaaarryyyyy

Today we talk about shutdown. by @kalechipskid.bsky.social!

Listen here!: share.transistor.fm/s/197299f3

Considering Kindness in shutdown. | dotzip | Episode 17

This week is our first SUPER-ZIPPY. Submit super-zippies on our website below :)Today we're talking about shutdown. by kalechips! A game about making choices when you have none. This game was suggeste...

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dotzip @dotzip.online · 19d

Happy 🐝 yourself Friday!!!

Listen to this incredible ep of Leaving the Party about Felvidek! A game that we almost talked about on our show, but ultimately did not for a lot of the reasons Kerry and Tess bring up in the episode!!!!

Leaving the Party @leavingthepartypod.bsky.social · 19d

NEW EPISODE! this one's about Felvidek (2024). Kerry and Tess talk about the history of Slovakia, the Christian god who is real and wants you to have a big sword, and whether Adam Friedland is hot. Links in reply ⬇️

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dotzip @dotzip.online · 28d

This week we’re talking with @plot-twists.bsky.social about 2025’s hot new game about fighting bugs!

Wait, what’s Silksong?

Listen here! - share.transistor.fm/s/d789a720

Catchin' Bugs in Kabuto Park with Jillian | dotzip | Episode 14

Finally a NICE game about GOOD things!!!Today we're talking about Kabuto Park by Doot and Zakku! A game about summer vacation and fighting children for bragging rights.Get Kabuto Park on Steam or itch...

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dotzip @dotzip.online · Sep 1

No new ep today in celebration of Labor Day! If you’d like to celebrate Labor too you should check out our episode on the game Birth!

See you next week!

Finding Comfort in the Uncomfortable in Birth | dotzip | Episode 1

Welcome to the first episode of dotzip! A show about big games (video AND tabletop) in small packages.Today we're talking about Birth by Madison Karrh! A game about loneliness, making friends, and app...

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dotzip @dotzip.online · Aug 29

we got all the AJ you could dream of

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dotzip @dotzip.online · Aug 29

Hello! We realized the website has not been updated with upcoming games because our dear webmaster is on paternity leave. Here's the lineup for September for folks who want to play along at home:

9/1: no episode, happy Labor Day!
9/8: Kabuto Park
9/15: Leila
9/22: Dead Letter Dept
9/29: shutdown

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dotzip @dotzip.online · Aug 25

*CLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACKCLACK*

Today we're talking about The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother!

Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/d3238206

podcast art stylized to look like an open window on a PC. the background of the window is layered and blurred split-flap displays. the center of the window is a polaroid of a family with "dotzip" written below in a metallic bubble font

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allsee 🔜 sleeping @allsees.online · Aug 18

CONSCIOUSNESS CAN BE YOURS
(if you listen to this dotzip episode 🤭)

dotzip @dotzip.online · Aug 18

If you start a podcast as a bit but then start genuinely deriving joy from it, is it still a bit?
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- [YES]

- [IF IT MAKES YOUY TRULY HAPPY DOES IT MATTER?]

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Today we're talking about qualia by @cmy2k.games!

Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/8fddc782

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dotzip @dotzip.online · Aug 18

If you start a podcast as a bit but then start genuinely deriving joy from it, is it still a bit?
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- [YES]

- [IF IT MAKES YOUY TRULY HAPPY DOES IT MATTER?]

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Today we're talking about qualia by @cmy2k.games!

Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/8fddc782

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dotzip @dotzip.online · Aug 14

📹STREAM ALERT📹

This afternoon (3 or 4pm Eastern) AJ will be streaming @studiovezelle.bsky.social's brand new turn-based tactics, escape room, scary-creature-lurking-across-the-table game Inkshade!

Follow us on Twitch to get notified and check out Inkshade on Steam!

twitch.tv/dotziponline

Save 10% on Inkshade on Steam

Inkshade is a turn-based tactics game carved out of strange wooden miniatures, wrapped in a web of locked rooms, and orchestrated by an otherworldly game master. Victory is not guaranteed, and the onl...

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dotzip @dotzip.online · Aug 11

No new ep today due to some file troubles. BUT FEAR NOT! AJ will be streaming today’s game, narrative peggle-like Jump the Track, over on twitch at 12pm eastern today. Follow us over there so you get notified!

twitch.tv/dotziponline

Key art for Jump the Track. In the foreground a character with red hair pulled into a ponytail and wearing a blue hoody and black sweatpants is crouched on a curb. Behind him a character is standing wearing a yellow hoody and glasses on a chain. The background is colorful neon lights and posters in a cyberpunk-esque future

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dotzip @dotzip.online · Aug 4

Every why has a wherefore

This week’s game is Centum!

Deciding Who You’re Going to Be in Centum | dotzip | Episode 10

Gang I don't even know what to say. Maybe just mark this episode as "listened" and do something else (don't do that, that's a reference to the game pls don't go we need more people to talk about this ...

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brian "kyoni" || Nth Circle @briannthcircle.bsky.social · Jul 28

ty for talking about of the Devil !! please forward our resumes to kodaka 🙏

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dotzip @dotzip.online · Jul 29

Thank you for making such a cool game!!!

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dotzip @dotzip.online · Jul 28

Finally a game that accurately depicts how cool and hot lawyers are! Thanks @63choux.bsky.social for recommending Of the Devil and joining us to talk about it!

Gambling with Lives in of the Devil (ep. 0) with Emily! | dotzip | Episode 9

I had a funny joke to put here, but then Kim mentioned Marvel's Avengers(tm) and I forgot what it was.Today we're talking about of the Devil episode 0 by Nth Circle Studios! A game about proving someo...

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dotzip @dotzip.online · Jul 21

On today's episode, Kim and AJ talk about breaking the wall, climbing Mt. Everest, and solving puzzles in the stylish visual novel YOUR HOUSE

Starting a New Chapter in YOUR HOUSE | dotzip | Episode 8

Chase is officially a dad, so Kim and AJ are trying their best to fill the void by building a bunch of secret rooms in the podcast.Today we're talking about YOUR HOUSE by PATRONES & ESCONDITES! A game...

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dotzip @dotzip.online · Jul 16

Thank you so much for making such a beautiful and compelling game!!

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Three More Years @threemoreyears.bsky.social · Jul 16

It's always great when you put yourself out there and hear something back.

But three people unpacking all of our wrestling with the world and beautifully describe how the connectedness of it all is kind of the point - and mentioning 1000x by @sunsetvisitor.studio too!

- hit us right in the feels!

dotzip @dotzip.online · Jul 16

Mini Mini Golf Golf is just a golf game! Nothing to see here! share.transistor.fm/s/232120cb

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dotzip @dotzip.online · Jul 16

Mini Mini Golf Golf is just a golf game! Nothing to see here! share.transistor.fm/s/232120cb

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