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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!

Ben and Trevor take a break from discussing games that will never exist, to games that will. They are taking part in a 1 Bit Jam where they have 2 colours to play with and that's it. The games they discuss were: A 2d strategic shooter where you shoot your own fighters at enemies A 3d horror game set in a creepy mansion.

Ben and Trevor continue their deck sessions, playing some classic Click Pitch and coming up with game designs such as: A game where you are an alien explorer cataloguing Earth; A teacher roguelike with in-depth student relationship mechanics; A high tech weapon alters physics in localised areas; and more!

Ben and Trevor wax lyrical about so many topics that aren't game design in this episode. However they did manage to talk about some game ideas so here they are: A long awaited sequel to Blind Reflection, the game from the second ever episode of the pod A retrofuturistic world where the learnings from the past are forgotten. A game where you and your neighbours are digging tunnels to explore under...

Ben and Trevor try to come up with ideas for the next batch of indie gems, including: a band finding inspiration in a haunted house; playing as the superintendent of a block of magical apartments; accidentally catfishing on dating apps; and more!

Ben and Trev continue the deck sessions and riff on some indie games such as: Investigating a mystery at Banana Corp as the CEO... A telepathic banana Work as an health inspector for a group of shops Carve away marble in a massively multiplayer game

The 2026 Deck Sessions continue as Ben and Trevor spend a lot of time discussing an 80s inspired game where you are taping songs off the radio, then go completely off the rails about reverse chicken football and a guy called Johnny Two-Fingers.

With GGJ having just completed for 2026, Ben and Trev use the theme "Mask" and generate a bunch of games that they could have made over the weekend: A teleporting TSA agent pursues a passenger through the terminal A parent and child must look after the driads of the forest. A prisoner must escape a french prison, while the warden makes a lot of mouse jokes.

Ben and Trevor revisit last year's Global Game Jam theme ahead of this year's jam: Bubble. With this in mind, they come up with games such as: a detective game where you play Glinda in Oz, long after the events of Dorothy; a tense deduction game set in a locked down apartment building; a nuclear power plant simulator with made up controls; and more!

This episode sees the long awaited return of dentists as villains, as Ben and Trev once again grace Ben's deck and record a summer nights podcast. The games discussed included. A first person soccer goal keeping game with wacky goal additions A first person paperboy game set in a world with portals to a parallel world, not to be confused with Stranger Things a legally distinct property A narrative...

Ben and Trevor continue their 'On the Deck' series with another session of Ramped Up Click Pitch, riffing on game ideas such as: a 3D heist game where you play a group of scrappy resistance fighters in a cross between Hitman and Commandos; a top-down RPG about a journalist dealing with a government experiment in a small town; a multi-character exploration of first contact with aliens who offload t...

Ben and Trev bring you the first episode of 2026, live from Ben's wonderful side deck. While they enjoy a beverage they muse on some interesting game ideas such as: Handling Brand Recognition for a drink company Dealing with absent forrest neighbours Apply sunscreen to your Gran