Bit Storm

Ben and Trev bring their dadness to the forefront in this episode where every game is based on dad'sThe crazy adventures of a house dadEscape from the eternal recitalA road trip adventure of a dad and his two sonsMultiplayer gardening mayhem

Ben and Trevor sweep up their cutting room floor to present you with a special episode of previously unseen content, culled from the numerous improvised games unused from old episodes, including:A tantric clock winder on the edge;Interviewing for a job with Santa Claus;Hunting down your nest egg from a rogue emu;Buying anti-depressants for your pet phoenix;and plenty more!

In the episode before the biggest episode of the year, Ben and Trev discuss numerous game ideas which have some sort of threshold.A Dread inspired VR RPG set in a basementA noir adventure set in a daycare centreAn RPG loosely based on a Kurodust songAn action adventure set in the cutthroat delivery industry

Ben and Trevor take some deep dives this week, exploring games where you might:Explore the world looking for mystical SCP like artifacts for use by your evil companyDecipher the timeline of a summer at camp after you find a mysterious phone in the woodsPlay a demon hunter ridding a small English town of monsters in a Hades inspired roguelikeAnd more!

Ben and Trevor carelessly muck around with the lockdown rules they have previously used, producing games like:Spearhead the vampire plot to take over the world.Make your way through a chocolate factory after the tour leader tragically passes awayReset your way through a roguelike.Investigate a serial killer and produce a podcast.

Trevor and Ben chain themselves down again in another lockdown episode, where this week's constraints give them:a game where Snow White's dwarves ride woodland creatures into battle;a building clearing roguelike set in a sector of a dystopic futuristic city;a bumbling hippie and his sea lion friend solving mysteries on an oil rig;a space convict finds himself on a mysteriously terraformed Mars;a hidden heir finds herself in the big city for the first time;and more!

Ben and Trevor return to lockdown and discuss some video game ideas, such as:Discover gods by following the evidence and yeet them into spaceTend the bar in a virtual reality strip club, but don't trust BasilPlay as a vampire who just so happens to work in AccountingRogue like involving local governments.

Ben and Trevor apply the lessons learned from their podcast punch-up with Alex Krause, and the three of them blast forth some video game ideas, such as:A detective/factory game where you are building guns and solving murdersserving up coffee to otherworldly creaturesan Overcooked style micro-management game set in a schooldiscover an undercurrent of conspiracy on social platform Jacebookfishing invades every popular sporting (or otherwise) competitionand more!Check out Alex's podcast over at http://bigtallboys.com or https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/big-tall-boys-1211360!

With lockdown 6.0 taking over Melbourne, Ben and Trevor limit the main character in their game designs to a 2x2 metre square area.Ensure the Feng Shui in your elevator apartment matches the energies on all the floorsBrace for space and battle it out in a trash compactorTake your clients as far away as possible from their intended destination.Long haul trucking in space.

Puppets and centaurs and demons, oh my!Join Ben and Trevor as they randomly generate some fun adventure games this week, including a man selling his soul for a beer, a human chosen to be the ceremonial prophet of an alien race, a modern day coliseum where you can sell action figures of your top fighters, and an imagined sequel to the classic film Labyrinth where Bowie's Jareth is missing and there is a new Goblin Queen!

In our second lockdown special where we constrain our games to take place in a restricted physical space, we once again manage to go deep on an interesting concept, this time working in a radio station in the 80s. Before we get there though, we also find an engineer attempting to gain control over a rampaging robot from his apartment, and a bachelorette party going awry in a bar.

In a locked down Bit Storm special episode, Ben and Trevor discuss games with the theme of being in a single location.An adventure game about a guy out of sync with a BBQAn AI driven conversational game that is controlled by a microphoneAn autopsy simulation, that dips into sci-fi.

Absorbent paper towel boot campJean Claude Van Damme tracks down his stolen kidney in a movie tie inRun around town performing tasks as a PA (a Parkour Assistant) to a celebrityMove up the corporate ladder based on Mount OlympusAll these games and more are discussed by Ben and Trev this week.

This week, Ben and Trevor write games such as:A team based multiplayer competition to see who can scavenge the parts to build a rocket and see the curvature of the Earth (or not see it?);A Mimic from Dungeons and Dragons finds themselves in modern day, trying to survive;A point and click adventure exploring the harrowing life of a gig economy delivery driver during the oncoming climate disaster;a third Portal game, where the main mechanic involves herding cows;and more!

Ben and Trevor discuss the following games this week.A mystical shop that sells AdjectivesA game set in a Schitts Creek like townDinosaurs on an airshipAn outback version of Sherlock Holmes goes up against her nemesis... a Dentist.and more.

In a rare in-person recording session, Ben and Trevor come up with some more games they wish existed, such as:a sci-fi future where magic still exists but has been mostly superseded by technology;what happens to the default cube when you delete it in Blender;a factory game where you are tasked with making circus food;a game where you must golf everywhere to traverse the world (this might be our best idea ever);and more!

Ben and Trev use numerous framing devices in games like:Officespace meets The Usual Suspects in a massive cross over eventA scientist who develops a virus is not exactly what the game presents them as.Tackle a murder mystery on a beachDig up dirt on all your neighbours... or don't

Bringing out all the hits this week as we turn random words, movies and locations into game designs, like:A cyberpunk combat game with rewind abilities,An insidious AI built into your video editing software,Handling your organized crime family as newlyweds,And lots more!

We're back for some more crazy high concept ideas like:A black knight taking on castle corruption as a vigilante,A robot who has just gained sentience through a botched final upgrade,An investigation into the butcher shops within an anthropomorphic worldAn elite soldier grapples with normality after a treaty with his sworn enemies, the Glargians.and more!

We threw some high concept ideas at the wall this week, and here's what stuck:A zombified take on Jurassic Park,First contact is made in the most embarrassing of circumstances,One man's relationship with the moon,A deep sea dive to save the world's oceans,and more!