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It'd be cool if ya'll considered CIPHER ZERO (@cipherzerogame.com ) for the following categories!

• Game of the Year
• Best Approachable Game
• Best Challenging Game
• Best Puzzle Design
• Most Innovative Game
• Best Art Direction

I'm still so incredibly proud of this game. 💜
A screenshot of CIPHER ZERO's opening area, Lake, done in a minimalist design and colors. A grey and lonely lake, vague shapes of mountains in the distance, multiple phases of the moon is seen in the grey sky.. Rocks of hard edges jut out of the water's surface, as sunbeams cast themselves over one of the rocks. A green train races across the surface and continues on off screen. A telescope sits in the foreground, aimed out towards the open lake. A solved puzzle from CIPHER ZERO. A 3x3 square grid, missing the center square. A dot sits in the center of it. The left column has a single horizontal dash above it, the right column has two. The center row has a single vertical dash to the left of tie, and the bottom row has two. The bottom left square is lit up green while the bottom right and center right are as well. The background is an upside-down landscape of a farm area, done in shades of green and black to match to green of the puzzle. An incorrectly solved puzzle from CIPHER ZERO. It's a 5x5 squared, grid-like puzzle, done in shades of black, white, grey, and orange. Some of the symbols on the puzzle are lit up with that orange, while parts of the grid is a lighter gray over other darker parts. A screenshot from CIPHER ZERO's City level, done in a minimalist design. A large apartment building sits center of the view, a large blue and faint orange sign with illegible text. Below that is an empty restaurant and bar. A covered train track runs behind it, as more skyscrapers are seen in the background with various billboards.
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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unity.com
CIPHER ZERO by @zapdot.com challenges you with 300+ logic puzzles, evolving worlds, and a reactive soundtrack.

CODE GIVEAWAY 🎮🗝️ What game pushed your brain the hardest? We’ll drop codes to some of our favorite replies.

Available now! on.unity.com/3K36zS5

#MadeWithUnity #indiegame #gamedev
Save 15% on CIPHER ZERO on Steam
A minimalist logic game. Can you solve for 𝒙?
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September 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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cipherzerogame.com
We're in the Rules Discovery Games Bundle!

Get 20% off on:
🧩 Strange Jigsaws (@flebpuzzles.bsky.social)
🔳 LOK Digital (@letibus.bsky.social)
🔲 CIPHER ZERO (@cipherzerogame.com)
🪨 Linelith (@cwpat.me)

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#GameDev #IndieGameDev #IndieDev
An image of four game splashes: CIPHER ZERO, LOK Digital, Strange Jigsaws, and Linelith
August 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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explodist.media
Minimalist logic game @cipherzerogame.com from Ben Cole Wu and @zapdot.com is fantastic! Simple on the surface but ultimately quite complex. 9/10

Thank you @thinkygames.com for helping me discover this gem!

#indiegames #puzzle #Steam #pcgaming 🎮

My review on @thegeeklygrind.bsky.social --
Cipher Zero is a logic game where the initial simplicity masks a snowballing level of fiendish complexity. — The Geekly Grind
Minimalist logic puzzler Cipher Zero teaches you its rules without any conventional instructions.
www.thegeeklygrind.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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cipherzerogame.com
"Were we overly-ambitious? For sure. [...] We wanted our soundtrack to be dynamic in a unique way... and I think we succeeded."

Join Ian in how he wove the sounds of CIPHER ZERO into its dynamic score.

notes.cipherzerogame.com/posts/03-ass...

#GameDev #IndieDev #SolveForX #DevLog
A screenshot from CIPHER ZERO done in minimal style, a varied color palette, and layered in textures. Inside a train, a booth's table is littered with random objects, such as a lava lamp, a camera with film next to it, an open CD players, an old school monitor with blue text. In the background, out the window, the background of a city and its pier can be seen.
July 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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bostongamedev.bsky.social
That's a wrap on the very first Boston Gamedev Week! We were totally blown away by how many people showed up to every single event, wore our pins and embraced BGW enthusiastically. Thank you to everyone who took this leap with us, and to all of our incredible organizers. Let's do this again!
A table with several BGW pins, name tags, and a poster that says "this event is brought to you by Boston Game Dev!" A photo from Made in MA. Manny Mallea is holding a frog plushie from the game Frogmageddon in front of a mounted camera. Its big frog face appears on the large screen behind Manny. The Boston Indies Demo Night. A crowd of game devs socializing and playing demos outdoors in the evening. Our Make Games Make Friends event. A crowd gathered indoors is chatting and ordering drinks.
May 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
zapdot.com
⚠️ A scammer has posted several fake job postings for our studio, and has been setting up fake interviews for a Concept Artist and Video producer.

We are not currently hiring. Please don't give out your personal information.
November 25, 2024 at 5:53 PM
zapdot.com
You know what the game developer on your list needs this holiday season?

Game ideas.

...they could probably also use this asset pack we made (and conveniently have on sale!):

bitworks.games
November 25, 2024 at 5:53 PM
zapdot.com
We just released Bitworks: Stronghold, a modular asset pack to build your own interior fantasy environments!

📦 Get it:
📘 Read more:

#madewithunity #unity3d #indiedev #gamedev

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November 25, 2024 at 5:53 PM
zapdot.com
Know any animators looking for work? Point them our way, please!

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November 25, 2024 at 5:53 PM
zapdot.com
We're happy to support AbleGamers and accessibility in games by sending a member of our team to become a certified APX! Get someone in your studio/team to join us!

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November 25, 2024 at 5:53 PM
zapdot.com
Making games can be lonely, come talk to us on discord while we do it!

discord.gg/R8cWckp
November 25, 2024 at 5:53 PM
zapdot.com
We need playtesters! Can you help? Signup here:

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November 25, 2024 at 5:52 PM
zapdot.com
Congrats to our friends at @spryfox for their launch of #alphabear2! We had a ton of fun helping with the WebGL port for Merriam-Webster:

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November 25, 2024 at 5:52 PM
zapdot.com
Join us in sponsoring a girl to attend the @BlackGirlsCODE Game Jam in Boston on Nov 5 -

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November 25, 2024 at 5:52 PM
zapdot.com
With every new addition to the team, this set gets even more awesome!
November 25, 2024 at 5:52 PM
zapdot.com
We're pretty excited to announce the launch of the new @PleasantDreams site today!

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November 25, 2024 at 5:52 PM
zapdot.com
We're the Indie Game Collective, you probably haven't heard about us -- but now, you can!

indiegamecollective.org/about/
November 25, 2024 at 5:52 PM
zapdot.com
Boston Herald on the IGC:

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November 25, 2024 at 5:52 PM
zapdot.com
Playing with some new particle effects for Ugly Baby:

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November 25, 2024 at 5:52 PM
zapdot.com
Check out a playthrough I did of a song in the latest Ugly Baby update!

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November 25, 2024 at 5:52 PM
zapdot.com
If you haven't done it already, @popcannibal could use your vote for greenlight:

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November 25, 2024 at 5:52 PM
zapdot.com
New design for the site is up at Also, we're collaborating with @dejobaan on Ugly Baby!

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November 25, 2024 at 5:52 PM
zapdot.com
Jack Lumber Review - IGN

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November 25, 2024 at 5:51 PM
zapdot.com
It was great to see so many local devs at the screening of Indie Game: The Movie last night! :)
November 25, 2024 at 5:51 PM