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Ben and Trev go off-prompt this week, ditching the usual random word generators to dive into some unprompted game designs and deep-dive nostalgia. This week: a narrative-driven "weekend away" visual novel where a group of friends uncovers secrets and vulnerabilities while navigating the fallout of a night of heavy drinking; a high-concept FMV experience that blends 3D environments with motion-capt...

Ben and Trev are back on Random Movies, hurling DVDs at each other and turning the pairs into game designs. This week: a narrative bowling game set on league night in a too-perfect 1950s town, where you pick which conversations to eavesdrop on between frames; a whistleblower conspiracy about a government cover-up of ancient sentient trees whose magical wood has quietly shaped history; a Christmas...

Ben and Trevor tackle the "Trust No One" theme for an upcoming game jam, using a random word generator to spark several high-concept designs: a puzzle game involving blocks of ice and a suspicious AI assistant, where the player must determine if the instructions provided to navigate the room are trustworthy; a high-stakes golf game set in Florida where you must manage a manual scorecard and determ...

Ben and Trev break out Random Movies, where they each pull a couple of random DVDs off the pile and mash the pairs into game designs. This week: a first person body swap where a dad and his son trade places in the middle of a life or death mission, and dying only makes you younger; a plane passenger who wishes her kid out of existence and has to work out which of her fellow travellers was secretly...

Ben and Trev reflect on their success in the GMTK game jam, where their narrative-driven game about counting sheep and falling asleep placed in the top 10% for enjoyment and the top 1% for audio. This week, they dive into some wild new concepts: a heavy, atmospheric journey where a character must transport a single "strongbox" to a new home, navigating the physical and emotional weight of their po...

Ben and Trev dig out Fucked Up Click Pitch for the first time in a good while, where a cursed word generator hands them one baffling word each to build a game around. This week: a goat who is thrilled to be sacrificed with a bread knife at a mountain summit; a periodic table of vegetables, assembled via particle accelerator; a hospital waiting room conspiracy that hinges entirely on a single nail...

Ben and Trev are back in the lounge for another round of Ramped Up Click Pitch, where they use a random word generator to spark high-concept game designs. This week's creations include: a narrative-driven experience set in the afterlife, where you play as a "failed" cupid who must navigate a ghostly wedding and uncover the tragic, intertwined histories of a couple who only found each other after d...

Ben and Trev dust off Ramped Up Click Pitch, where they throw random adjective-and-noun pairs at each other and forge game designs from the results. This week's games include: a strategy game where you build defensive ramparts and place your cannons while seeing a few seconds into the future, the present and the about-to-happen overlaid on the same muddy battlefield; a narrative document-shuffler...

Ben and Trevor put their creative gears into overdrive by using a random movie generator to spark new game design concepts. The duo explores a variety of high-concept premises, including: Swiss Army Man : A survival adventure where your only "tool" is a decaying corpse that provides various physical properties — like bloating in the sun or being used as a bridge — while you navigate a desert islan...

Ben and Trev are back in the lounge for another round of Click Pitch and attempt to forge them into game designs. This week's creations include: an extraction shooter where you must navigate a family through a series of distractions like timeshare presentations; a high-stakes investigation into the theft of a gold-finned goldfish that leads to a very specific, "enhanced" point-and-click shootout;...

Ben and Trevor play some game jam sized Click Pitch, coming up with designs such as: having to go to a lot of trouble to play the game you actually want to play a game of social cues that might have a surprise at the end having to fire a powerful Homelander-esque superhero and more!

Ben and Trevor take a significant detour from their usual routine this week, embarking on an unusually large and lengthy exploration of culinary possibilities. They spend a considerable amount of time debating the merits of "fusion" foods like meatloaf Swiss rolls with relish, various international-style burritos (including spaghetti, pizza and HSP varieties), and the precise technical requirement...

Ben and Trev are back in the lounge, where they play Click Pitch to generate some fresh game designs. The games discussed this week include: An underwater exploration game featuring a society of "Snorks" living beneath the surface; A political campaign simulator involving complex social interactions and automated systems; A narrative-driven legal drama where you play as a juror trying to navigate...

Once more Ben and Trev discuss games that don't exist in Ben's lounge room. The games discussed this week were: Apple based games with weird warioware/QWOP styled controls A match 3 game with a cozy story about restoring your Grandpa's old tools A puzzle game where you need to work out passwords.

Ben and Trevor jump immediately into some Click Pitch, and after a few ideas find a really fun nugget to chew on for a while. Games such as: keeping a sausage safe in various environments; an RTS/tower defense game involving growing your units and towers; a mystery game set in the heyday of film cameras; a puzzle/automation game where you have to solve inefficiencies in a physically simulated worl...

Ben and Trev once again set themsevles up in Ben's lounge, drinking some whiskey and discuss games that should exist but don't. The game discussed included: Industrial waste that turn 4 ordinary pigeons into something special An untitled goose game styled game set in a hotel where you are performing various tasks Set in a waiting room, the player just does some word searches.

Ben and Trevor riff on some game designs in Click Pitch this week, such as: a civilization finding out the truth about their diminutive nature; the scientific cure for vampirism; what's really happening when you get money from an ATM; and more!

Ben and Trev are still smashing out these lounge sessions, and discussing plenty of stupid games. The games discussed this week include: Two point hospital but with hotdogs and other circus/themepark related foods An insect adventure game set in a hoarders house A game that exposes the real secret behind who the Mona Lisa is based on

The Lounge Sessions continue as Ben and Trevor play Click Pitch once more, coming up with game designs such as: exploring a new world of alien creatures and mapping their hunting patterns; a beautifully rendered cozy Rube Goldberg machine building game; a world where the stars have been replaced with drones; the incentives for young men to travel to the stars; and more!

Ben and Trev dive deep into very few games this week, but it does see the return of an old segment from the first season. The games discussed include: An educational mathematics game set in a cafe A John Wick game where the majority of the development went into the highly detailed Continental Hotel room simulator.

Ben and Trevor play a game they've never played before: Click Pitch, where they take two random words and make video games from them! This week: a party game about secretly recording your friends; a flatulent spy; the aftermath of a rapture-like event; and more!

Ben and Trev get spooky with eldritch based horror, as they go through a previous game jam theme. The games discussed include: A character jumping through time Multiple characters experiencing an alien invasion of epic proportions Investigating the death of a friend.

Ben and Trevor use the limitation of the recent Comfy Jam as inspiration and come up with games involving seamless loops, such as: a security guard doing their rounds; a time loop in Dinosaur Hospital; the struggle of an addict and their constant interventions; and more!

Ben and Trev return once again to Ben's house, this time back into the lounge sessions as it's no longer summer. They wax lyrical on a few different game designs including: Investigate your spy friends at a weekend away. Investigate the different lobbyists your political boss is entertaining Try not to go insane while tending to a space lighthouse in a nebula.

Ben and Trevor move out of the cold for some Click Pitch, riffing on game ideas such as: a game and its sequel set in a court with an overbearing HOA an extraction shooter set in a world where north of the equator is a giant glacier a deductive game where you figure out a witch's curse and more!