Description

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 appreciating the unique parts of all of us that make up the whole person. And also puzzles. Lots of little puzzles.

Buy Birth on Steam, Switch or Xbox! And check out Madison Karrh's other projects!
(CW for illustrated body horror and stylized, but detailed, drawings of bugs)

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Discussed in the episode

• "i want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and i'm not kidding" tweet from @Jordan_Mallory
• Listen to Chase on Video Game Podtimism!!!!
• The Worst Puzzle of All-Time | Design Delve from Second Wind [In the context of what makes puzzles good]
• A chat with the creator of Birth from Christian Donlan at Eurogamer

Additional stuff

• A WINGS Exclusive Interview with Madison Karrh, developer of Birth by WINGS Interactive on Medium
• Birth review: a comforting puzzle game about death and decay by Rachel Watts for Rock Paper Shotgun

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Art by Tara Crawford

Music by _amaranthine

Additional sounds by Boqeh

Produced and edited by AJ Fillari

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Timecodes:

• (00:00) - From WZIP... Stay with us
• (00:29) - Welcome to dotzip!!!
• (01:39) - What is this show?
• (06:28) - Who are WE???
• (18:48) - Thank you to our collaborators!!!
• (21:01) - General Discussion of Birth by Madison Karrh
• (21:34) - What is this game? | General Discussion
• (30:50) - Play the game!! | Spoilers incoming
• (32:52) - Spoiler Discussion
• (01:05:31) - TW Discussion of death | Spoiler Discussion
• (01:08:05) - All of these reads make sense | Spoiler Discussion
• (01:12:10) - Big Takeaways!
• (01:12:29) - AJ's Big Takeaway
• (01:13:54) - Kim's Big Takeaway
• (01:15:27) - Chase's Big Takeaway
• (01:17:36) - Check out Birth!!!
• (01:18:06) - Thanks so much for listening!