S&S Dot It Starts is a prequel to the original S&S Dot game. My cousin Gareth was helping me create characters and levels and things for the original game and he came up with some characters that wouldn't quite fit in the world we had developed but would fit in the same world before a lot of the technological advances we'd incorporated. So I gave him the opportunity to use these characters and objects in his own game.

The story for It Starts is basically how the world of Dott evolved from a nice, peaceful place, safe for everyone and everything to live into the mean yet still nice looking world of the original game.
It also shows how Mad Dot gains his power to make him able to attempt to take over the world in the original game. This story also shows you why Mad Dot decided to kidnap Splodge, Squidge's girlfriend in the original game.

It doesn't matter in what order you play these games but there are a lot of characters in this game that appear in the other games in different forms thanks to the Mutation Chamber created by Mad Dot's henchmen in the later stages of the It Starts story.

There are a lot more magical creatures and characters in this prequel game too and a lot more wildlife to interact with.