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Originally planned for release as episode 351, Ben and Trevor finally get this episode released as it was stuck on Trev's new PC that went in for repairs. In this pre PAX episode, they discuss game ideas centered around the Vampire Survivors / Horde Shooter genre. A horde shooter where all your weapons are powered from extension cords. A VR horde shooter based around hand poses and ring slots for...

This week on Bit Storm, Ben and Trevor play some good old Click Pitch, taking random words and turning them into games such as: a PS1 inspired escape room game with a raunchy intro; a game where you voyage to cross the edges of a flat Earth; a deck builder where you are taking your carnival from town to town; and more!

Ben and Trev are joined by the always wonderful Ryan Betson. They all sat above the theatre entrances at PAX 2023 and had a chat about some video games that don't exist. The games they discussed include: Two rival editions of a media empire game, one starring a Goose and one starring a Swan. A boss has to visit all the parties in a high rise building while dodging a touchy workmate. A rogue like b...

Trevor and Ben riff on some Ramped Up Click Pitch, taking random phrases and turning them into games such as: An on-sea adventure set around the hairy island nations of B'athtuub; A world where you need to get high to get high; Join the crew that lives in and maintains city-sized golems made from rusted metal; and more!

With Trevor feeling under the weather again, Ben and Trevor play another one of those mysterious tapes from Big Flip Studios. This time they are hiring a new game designer and they've made some minor changes to their office, in the form of an escape room.

Ben and Trevor play some Ramped Up Click Pitch, rocking out some game ideas such as: a poignant meditative game about restoring an old car after returning to your homeland; a frustrating two player co-op game all about balance; a loot clicker set in a school secretly run by a necromancer; and more!

Ben and Trevor once again play Classic Click Pitch and Ben brings a game pitch to discuss. The game discussed include An Around the World in 80 days inspired puzzle game An Infamous inspired cyberpunk hero game A vampire farming simulator.

Recording again after a long break, Ben and Trevor are back with some good old classic Click Pitch, in which they improvise game worlds such as: two tea-drinking caveman toys searching the city for their old owner; the microcosmic world of a pub pool table; a platformer where you play as Hermes Conrad from Futurama, limboing your way to freedom; and more!

Ben and Trev must have accidently made a deal with the devil, as they have finally found the tracks for episode 300, just in time for PAX 2023. Live from the Audio Technica booth on the show floor at PAX, they welcome the Inconsolables for a few rounds of classic click pitch. Games include. A haunted brothel management game The Wiggles star in their own alternate reality game, with a dark twist Pl...

In the final buffered episode before Ben is back from Canada, Ben and Trevor do some deep video game world building with ideas such as: a parallel universe where gummy is a fundamental particle; somebody finds God's omnipresent suitcase; measuring ingredients using household items; a Return of the Obra Dinn inspired game where you find out who gave you conjunctivitis; and more!

Ben and Trev are back at it again with more Classic Click Pitch(tm). The games this week include. Looking after the local heroes babies Mining deep underground with only canaries to tell if the oxygen is getting low Socially engineer your way to victory in a local election Fix Satisfactory style automation levels

Ben and Trevor kick on with some more classic Click Pitch, riffing on game ideas such as: Trevor Scott waking up as a literal sheep; kids holding a civil lawsuit over custody of a bunny; a build-a-cosplay simulation; playing as a flight attendant on an interplanetary flight; and more!

Ben and Trevor discuss yet more games before Ben leaves on his 10 week trip. Utilising the latest in random word technology, they retrieve those random words and come up with game designs, such as. Manage a thinkeasy, a place where people can reminisce in peace. Solving the mystery of everyone's 3d printer all printing automatically Bring down the world of Fantasy Gloria Jeans from the inside.

Ben and Trev continue with last weeks revolutionary idea of returning to Click Pitch to come up with their game ideas. Actual gamified games discussed include A digital card game where each player builds a wall An episodic game set on a fictional tv show called Band Wagon An action adventure where the player character follows a wool trail and ravels it into a ball.

Ben and Trev return to the classic Click Pitch game this week and discover the freedom that comes with less words. Games discussed include: A management style game where the secrets of the Sandman are revealed Another management game where the Gym's you manage have more difficult clientele the longer you play A Paper's Please / Not Tonight inspired medical game.

Ben and Trevor review some of the best Dark Web game they've been playing recently, including: Cantankerous Booty of Love Super Sexy Business Simulator Tropical Limbo Universe Rocket Powered Stick: World Tour and more!

Ben and Trev delve into some random movies in this episode and discuss the following game ideas. A gory, Bully inspired, monsters university game Stuart Little gets a job A mall santa is the only one who can stop the apocalypse

Ramped Up Click Pitch results in some banger game ideas this week, as Ben and Trevor riff on games such as: a Dredge inspired game where you play a mail delivery person in a dark fantasy world; an adventure/puzzle game where you can change the words of prophecies to affect the outcome of events; a game where you are designing and managing a cruise ship liner that is powered by zombie labour; and m...

Ben and Trev continue their mad rush to record episodes before Ben leaves for Canada. This time they play What 3 Words and come up with a bunch of fun game ideas. A snowy adventure with a teen vibe and an appearance from a Bit Storm classic character Investigate a Zombie outbreak at a very popular food chain A VR adventure through portals and into the characters very psyche.

Ben and Trevor turn random movie selections into game ideas this week, including: a Sam Fisher-esque assassin who also happens to be a giant Megalodon; a world with domesticated dragons that discovers a great beast; what a Fast & Furious game should really look like; and more!

Ben and Trev are starting to cram as many episodes they can in to one recording session, so these next 10 episodes or so may get a little loopy. However this time they discuss the following games while playing their classic Ramped Up Click Pitch game. Discover why Ken and Ryu have similar moves in Street Fighter 2 onwards An adventure set on a steampunk space ship A point and click adventure where...

Jumping into a game of What 3 Words, Ben and Trevor create some fun video game ideas such as: playing as a Telecom Justice, in a world where wireless communication has been banned; booby trapping a verandah during a neighbourly dispute; fighting back against giant space bees emerging from the centre of the Earth; and more!

Ben and Trev jump into creating games based off of random movies this week. Some of the games include. A vengeful spider chasing after the 1% after years of being juiced. The humble high 5 is discovered to be a way to travel to a new dimension An adventure set in Australia during Banjo Patterson's time.

Click Pitch is played, and games are improvised! Ben and Trevor come up with games such as: A wacky race across the world; A heavy metal band faces the apocalypse; Forces of heaven and hell vie for the possession of God's fiddle; and more!

This episode Ben and Trevor are mixing things up by playing What 3 Words to get their random prompts. They discuss weird games including: A Papers Please inspired legal game involving the bad guys from video games suing the heroes A Romeo and Juliet-esque romance game set in a submarine where 2 star crossed Deep Water Polo players fall in love A point and click / 2d side scroller beat em up mash u...