Bit Storm

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 include Monique the leek runs for president as your character trys to turn from antagonist to protagonist. Search through videos from an archive to solve a mystery An 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 Andre a tense sci-fi survival game set next to volcanic vents in the deepest ocean a mystery revolving around a friend lost in a haunted theme park ride and 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 office A dystopian adventure where the main character realises they are not like eve...

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 resort A point and click adventure game about a facehugger trying to find a face to hug. A clothes manufacturing game where the only fabric available...

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 spinner a super-spy finding themself in a tiny city a co-op game where the players balance food as they deliver it to a giant and 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 universe Takedowns such as those in Burnout, but in the Cars universe An 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 VR Explore conversations through non linear time The 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 affair a 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 worker Manage a farmers market set in Kevin Costner's Waterworld Use 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 Kingdom Biosky Grey'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 Armageddons the 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 hospital A top down rogue like with elements of Pacific Drive and the apocalypse A 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

Originally planned as episode 387, this episode is just a standard click pitch one. Not that that's a bad thing, Ben and Trev laugh their way through silly games including the following: The Olympics but during the Purge A Deadpool action adventure with 4th wall breaks A sexy sheep shearing game A point and click adventure game with very limited controls

Another day, another live episode... Ben invited Trev into his humble abode to record live for the first time in a while, and they quickly remembered how insane things get when they are in the same room and can look each other in the eyes. Game discussed include: Recovering a dragon's treasure in a rogue like adventure game A cozy game about collecting eggs A goat simulator / Tony Hawk inspired of...

Enjoying some regular Click Pitch this week, Ben and Trevor improvise some game designs such as: A point and click adventure where you play the personification of an out of circulation currency, in a world of money; A cooking game where you must satisfy picky eaters; A tower defense game set in an Officeworks  ; and more!

Using movies as game prompts this week Ben and Trev, muddle their way through lots of spaghetti themed games, such as: A WaterWorld-esque world where the only remaining enforcement is the coastguard. A VR adventure set on the starship Poseidon. A vampire adventure based briefly off of 8 Mile.

Some roguelike inspired Click Pitch this week, as Ben and Trevor roll the old RNG and come up with some improvised game designs, such as: controlling crash test dummies through a Jigsaw-esque set of traps; stealth based runs as you built your arsenal to become a Predator; take down a crime syndicate in successive runs while the surviving bad guys become more powerful; and more!

A long time ago in a podcast far far away... That's right it's a Star Wars themed episode, Ben and Trev muddle their way through many different game ideas based on the popular Star Wars universe. The games include: A Han Solo adventure game A Dredge inspired fishing game on Kamino A heist style game set on Coruscant

In a rare in-person recording, Ben and Trevor bring back Starch Wars a la Vampire Survivors, then follow up with some Click Pitch, inventing ideas such as: guessing countries based on their three dimensional flags; a wig controlling the mind of bald people; and more!

With Powerjam 2 going on, Ben and Trevor jump into their favourite genre of games, adventure. They use this years prompt to delve into some adventure games and discuss what they would do for a one room adventure game. Some of the ideas involved in the adventure games discussed include: The very sweary grandma from all the fairy tales and nursery rhymes is actually the same person who is under hous...