Drawing across interrelated meanings of postdigital perspectives, and embodied perspectives informed by research in performance, visual arts, Diaspora studies, literacies, and ethnomusicology, I examine my playing and a walkthrough of the videogame We Are Chicago to conceptualize two approaches for postdigital scholarship: affirming the relational and affirming the communal in postdigital gaming. I consider how approaches to affirming the relational and affirming the communal prompt a bevy of possible stances for postdigital, gaming, and literacies research, teaching, and learning; and discuss how such approaches and stances point to possibilities of giving dap as an illustrative research and teaching practice. Giving dap references the embodied gesture of a shared handclap. I conclude with recommendations for researchers and educators that extend meanings underscoring such gestures, for example when framing research inquiries and designing research methods, curriculum, and teaching that extends varied social and cultural knowledge, ways of being, and ways of doing.