Dale & Dawson Stationary Supplies

About

Dale & Dawson Stationary Supplies is the name of an Among Us style video game where players try to work together to complete objectives under the watching eyes of the manager, while slackers try their hardest to cause mayhem and avoid being caught. Due to the unique twist on the recognizable formula, shortly after it's launch various Twitch and YouTube streamers started to collaborate with each other in matches, leading to a spike in the game's popularity.

History

On August 28th, 2024, the gaming developer Striped Panda Studios released a short 20 second trailer for their upcoming game, Dale & Dawson Stationary Supplies, to their official YouTube^[1] channel. In the trailer, various different activities are able to see seen while also giving the core gameplay mechanics and rules. The trailer would be followed-up by the game officially releasing on Steam the following day (shown below).

Online Presence

After the game had released, it was quickly picked up by different streamers who were happy to have a game that they could play with friends, similar to the Among Us meta that took over Twitch during the COVID-19 pandemic. On September 1st, 2024, the streamer and content creator xQc uploaded a long-form video of him playing through multiple rounds of the game to his official channel^[2], with different roles and tasks being shown as he earned 118,000 views in two weeks (shown below).

A few days after xQc uploaded his video of playing the game, other content creators started to get on the trend as well. On September 5th, 2024, the YouTuber MM7 Games^[3] uploaded a video of him playing the game, showing off the perspective of a Slacker within the game, and earning over 620,000 views in two weeks (shown below).

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