Bit Storm

Ben and Trevor click some pitches this week, coming up with game designs like:a zen shaving game where you remove hair from a variety of creaturesa cozy Stardew Valley-esque game, where you are a sleeper agent waiting for a missionan apple picking game with a hidden horror elementand more!

Ben and Trevor are back for another round of Bit Storm, attempting to design games using random words and questionable logic! This week, they dove into Click Pitch, and the results are as delightfully unpredictable as ever. The games discussed includeA game where two planets fall in love and chaos ensuesA bounty hunter game set in the star wars universe with Carmen Sandiego like investigation and a totally new gameplay enhancement system.A time travel game where you must orchestrate a meet cute.

This week Ben and Trevor take all their Click Pitch prompts and merge them into a single MMO, with features such as:telepathic characters via the Shining;health systems and weight loss;pranking celebrities;and more!

Ben found another clip of the Big Flip Saga, so we are playing it. Dave/Cody, Harold and Oliver Pebbles learn all about working with childrens checks, how to make games and the healing factor of a spiggot.

Ben and Trevor play some regular old Click Pitch, pitching game ideas such as:a Superstore and Monster Prom inspired VR game where department store drama happens around you while you worka pharmacy deduction game where you must decode doctor's handwriting to dispense the right medicinea prophet who must ensure their prophecies are fulfilled as they go about their dayand more!

Ben and Trev delve back into games that were never developed from movies. Some of the games discussed this week were:A comedic wing commander-esque gameAn adventure game set in a precinct where the captain has been replaced by their serial killer twinA run based crime syndicate simulator with a Batman-esque "villian"

Ben and Trevor take some more random movies and turn them into game designs, including:an extraction shooter take on Blue Prince;a modern remake of Spy vs Spy;Boss Baby as a lawyer;and more!

Ben and Trev continue with more Click Pitch live in Ben's office. They discuss more games that don't exist like:A point and click investigating paranormal goings on.A mystical spy thrillerA horror game where you literally can't miss a moment.

Trevor and Ben get together in person for a hands free Click Pitch, coming up with game designs such as:working in the medical lottery office of a dystopic future society;escaping an open air prison in the middle of a vast desert;ancient playwrights battling it out, Call of Duty style;and more!

With Trev finally getting the What 3 Words generator to work again, Ben and Trev get 3 words as their prompts and deliver such gems as:A proceedurally generated pest control gameA scientist must defend a barge from a giant krakenA game where you get to use paper mache in VR

Ben and Trevor, Click Pitch, jam 'em together and you get some fun improv game designs, such as:a Bulletstorm-esque first person brawler where your fists are made of diamond;a storylet driven sci-fi game set in the lead-up to an intergalactic war;a non-violent Hitman style game where you are investigating your environment to determine the best love matches;and more!

Ben and Trev have been playing a ton of deductive games, such as Return of the Obra Dinn, The Roottrees are Dead and a new free game called Type Help. As such they try their hand at designing 3 deductive games with different mechanics. The games discussed include:Collating evidence and piecing together old crimes after the digitisation was corruptedTracing paths and connections people took through a state/county.Analysing your neighbours through garbage.

Ben and Trevor play some Click Pitch, for better or worse! They come up with games such as:an Apogee style platformer revolving around smashing papaya;figuring out alien body language in a first contact situation;figuring out the strange place your village has been built;and more!

Ben and Trev have been making a fair few adventure games recently (check out bslinger.itch.io for the games) so they thought it was about time that they return to the Adventure Game Design Done Quick format, but as this show is now a 30ish minute format they had to change it to QuickeR (Hence the extra R). They design a game set on an island and discuss an article that Ron Gilbert wrote many many years ago.Ron Gilbert - Why Adventure Games Suck

After a brief pitch from Ben, he and Trevor move on to some movie prompts to create games such as:A team of stage magicians pull of heists in a world where actual magic existsSerial killers try to blend in in 1980's MiamiA deductathon where you are researching people with super powers to help them avoid the fascist governmentand more!

Bored of regular click pitch, Ben and Trev delve back into random movies to find the next hit video game tie in. Movies discussed included:Fool's GoldGarfield: A Tale of Two KittiesHellraiser: BloodlinesFant4stic

Ben and Trevor jump headfirst into Ramped Up Click Pitch, taking random phrases and pitching video games such as:an animal husbandry game about chicken bombsan Obra Dinn/Roottrees style game about an attorney working for a universitya game about memories and how perception changes over timean astronaut travels at light speed and misses his life back home for a stupid reasonand more!

In our annual pre Global Game Jam episode Ben and Trev discuss different games that match the theme, "Bubble". The games includeWarp bubblesA boy in a sensory deprivation bubbleBubble based technologyBubble jet printers

This week on Bit Storm, Ben and Trevor take some random movies and re-imagine them as video games, such as:Fireproof as an action disaster movie where you play a firefighter staving off the end of the world;Rebecca as a post-apocalyptic noir mystery about an elite member of society and his new wife;Freaky as a body-swap movie between a pregnant women and her dead-beat boyfriend;and more!

Ben and Trev tried to do something different, but it didn't work, so they just recorded a standard episode. The games discussed were.A game where you play the middle manager of a space elevatorA game set in the south pole at a secret facilityA game set in a morning tv show, heavily based off of Get Krackin.

Ben and Trevor make their way into the new year with some ramped up Click Pitch, inventing video games such as:showing up un-costumed to a costume party and having to steal your costumethe drug-fueled Batman fantasy of an octogenariana time-travel fueled weight loss solutionand more!

Hello loyal listeners and those new to this podcast, Ben and Trev would like to welcome you to the latest episode where they talk about some games that don't exist, such as:A cosy game where you must tend to a house made of fleshAn adventure game where you play 3 witches that are banished from using magic.A legal game set in the night garden court, where Judge Worm (the fourth of his name) presides.

Trevor and Ben go through their Dark Steam games of the year, including:the laundry focused Dirty Paintball;the spooky reality bending Dead Dream;chilling out with Drug Induced Lawn Mowing;and more!

It's Christmas time and normally Trev and Ben get together to discuss games at Ben's house. however they couldn't make it work, so they did it remotely like every other episode. They discuss Christmas themed games, such as:Santa Claus is turned into a vampire by one of the elves, in a Heavy Rain inspired adventureEeyore is turning against everyone in the 100 acre woods and submitting them to Saw like torture devicesExplore friends and relationships in three time periods at christmas.

Join Ben and Trevor as they play some Click Pitch and improvise some wacky video game ideas, such as:a mundane job in an office where all technology is controlled by magic;sharing the secret of the Fountain of Youth;a courtroom drama following the events of Luigi's murder trial in the Mushroom Kingdom;and more!

With Ben and Trev being exhausted they use a random movie picker to gather their prompts this week. The loosely tied in games were as follows:A game where you are an exorcist cursed with knowledgeA tightrope walker is pursued by the crew who attacked their twin.Rollerball but physics based controlsMiles Morales trying to get back to New York city by hitchhiking

Ben and Trevor use movies as prompts to make video games this week, with results such as:a downhill bike racing game starring Pee-wee Herman;turf wars between holidays as they try to take over the calendar year;the secret alter-ego of a superhero is less than savoury;and more!

Ben and Trev are back at it yet again, discussing stupid games that have no reason to exist and therefore don't. The games discussed this week are:A vet management gameIn Search of Bunyip, a monster hunting game set on Lake EildonAn action / roguelike set on a beach where you are doing odd jobs for familiesAn action adventure set in a car chasing down the mythical Snacknado.

Join Trevor and Ben as they improvise some game ideas via classic Click Pitch, with results such as:exploring a world where everything is edible (but perhaps not tasty);a squad based soccer game where you choose an animal to play as;unravelling the mystery of a prophetic tapestry;and more!

Ben and Trev return after the big news that happened in the world. They play Ramped Up Click Pitch to get over it. The games discussed include:A cow based self realisation journeyA roguelike cleaning out slime from gigantic creaturesA game where you play an elephant doing odd jobs to pay for his road tripA hunger games style game where you train the tributesA VR game with ice sculpture mechanics.

Ben and Trevor play some Ramped Up Click Pitch, inventing games such as:a prince who wants to stay amphibious to pursue his music career;nursing a severed limb back to life;running the logistics for a Warehouse 13-esque facility;and more!

Ben and Trev get spooky with this years Hole-o-ween special. This year they are playing Ramped Up Click Pitch to get their prompts and the games discussed were:a game where you control a marionette manuallya horror game set at a camp for toddlersa game called All Draculas Hate Dentists

This week Ben and Trevor take random movies as prompts and come up with improvised video games, including:a Pacific Rim/Commando mash-up where you are an ex-mech fighter brought back to save your daughter;a point and click adventure where you play two slightly naive men looking after some difficult kids;an investigate reporter tries to discover the source of the shocking visions of a rich heir;and more!

Ben and Trev are once again live from PAX, this time sitting above the handheld area, where they play some Click Pitch. The games that will never exist but yet are discussed involved:Controlling dangerous fantasy creatures in a national parkAvoid aliens by continually maintaining rhythm while going through lifePay actual bills with actual money through space invaders styled gameplay

Ben and Trevor take notes from GOTY contender UFO 50 by improvising limited scope games, such as:a mouse digging his way between houses, looking for treats;dueling painters trying to be the one who paints the most of a house;California Games meets the legal system;and more!

Ben and Trev are back on video, and are ready to introduce a new segment to the podcast. What is it??? You'll have to listen to find out.Games discussed includeMonique the leek runs for president as your character trys to turn from antagonist to protagonist.Search through videos from an archive to solve a mysteryAn adventure game set in a school staff room.

A new season begins, and Trevor and Ben take random movie prompts and turn them into improvised video game ideas, including:a spy thriller take on My Dinner With Andrea tense sci-fi survival game set next to volcanic vents in the deepest oceana mystery revolving around a friend lost in a haunted theme park rideand more!

Well, it's come time to finally end Bit Storm... Season 1. Ben and Trev have decided that 400 episodes is the perfect length for a season of a podcast, so this is the final episode of season 1. They discuss games that still don't exist at length like:A timeloop adventure set between the hours of 9am and 3pm at an officeA dystopian adventure where the main character realises they are not like everyone elseA cosy game where you unpack a hoard.

Ben and Trevor get down with some Click Pitch, improvising video game ideas such as:a game played on your phone where you are trying to find your missing friend Jared;a tea-bag factory simulator;playing as an eccentric architect trying to build the best tower for his community;and more!

Ben and Trev try their hand at video in this audio medium. So there's plenty of references to a non existant video version as Trevor was too lazy to actually put the video up. They talked about some cool games though, like:A management game set in a resortA point and click adventure game about a facehugger trying to find a face to hug.A clothes manufacturing game where the only fabric available is velvet.

This week Ben and Trevor use the theme from GMTK Jam 2024 "Built To Scale" in all of their Click Pitches and come up with improvised video games such as:a Katamari style kids shape spinnera super-spy finding themself in a tiny citya co-op game where the players balance food as they deliver it to a giantand more!

***Trigger Warning: Suicide***Ben and Trev delve deep into Pixar's Cars universe and realise the real truth behind the Cars that Disney doesn't want you to know. Also they talk about games that don't exist:Interior designing in the Cars universeTakedowns such as those in Burnout, but in the Cars universeAn RPG with medicinal magic powers.

Ben and Trevor hit the course for a round of improvised video game development, this week seeing how golf mechanics might affect different genres.

Ben invites Trev back over to again record in person. They play classic Click Pitch and discuss some interesting games, such as:Serving sausages in space in VRExplore conversations through non linear timeThe origin of the laughing clown

Ben and Trevor record in-person this week, Click Pitching their way to game ideas such as:a Quantic Dream style game where somebody finds out something terrible about their spouse thanks to their affaira horror game set at an abandoned water park in the bright light of day another horror game, but closer to home as you deal with bathroom renovations;and more!

Ben and Trev return to a prompt game they haven't done in a while, What 3 Words. The games they come up with are interesting to say the least:A tower defence game against a singular case workerManage a farmers market set in Kevin Costner's WaterworldUse a programming language to defend the world against the incoming world of Mondas.

Ben and Trevor kick off with some movie title inspired game designs, including:a tense mystery game set in a police station inspired by The Crazies and The Guilty;a game where you play the cameraperson for a team of ghost hunters;a mash-up of Deliverance and Back Draft about an arson investigator in the deep south;and more!

Ben and Trev delve back into the dumpster of Dark Steam to review games that "definitely exist" and discuss the following games and more as reviews:Dead or Alive: Hobo in the Magic KingdomBioskyGrey's Anatomatch Three

A ramped up week of Click Pitch as Ben and Trevor riff on game design ideas such as:discovering your society is living inside the sleeping body of a titan;the disastrous case of 60 Armageddonsthe art gallery of the far future;and more!

Ben and Trev are back at it again with a bunch more games that will never exist. The games they discuss this week are:A puzzle based love matching game set in a Grey's Anatomy style hospitalA top down rogue like with elements of Pacific Drive and the apocalypseA Night at the Museum inspired adventure game set in a costco

Via mysterious video tape, Ben and Trevor present the next stage in the saga of Big Flip Games, now a subsidiary of Killian Games. Gamification in the workplace, lawful kisses, gravity knives, and more!Thanks to Alex Krause for joining us! Check out https://bigtallboys.com