Bit Storm

A supermarket employee finds wizard socks, a tomato in the Starch Wars universe unwittingly starts a new conflict, House M.D. gets some new interns, battle royale on the ocean, story based match 3 in space, and more as Ben and Trevor play some Ramped Up Click Pitch!

Ben and Trevor go on tangents and off the rails while talking about the following game ideas: Aliens in Mooroolbark, following clues to a hidden treasure inside a recently renovated house, supernatural demolition services and a superhero with the ability to see through lids.

Ben and Trevor spend a bit of time discussing the VR game they made (with some help) during the 48 hour Global Game Jam 2020 at JMC Academy in Melbourne!

The High Clown Priest meets their maker, chickens become human and vice versa, we meet Chuck Brink the roller skating wonder, a medieval private detective, caffeine based time powers, we bring back the orbital food cannon from episode 5, and more this week on Bit Storm, presented by Ben Slinger and Trevor Scott.

Learn all the secrets of the neighbourhood as a house painter, investigate what's happening on The Foundry message boards, a lovely match 3 narrative game turns evil and also see the hot new fashion at the circus. In this Global Game Jam themed episode, Ben and Trevor use last years theme "what home means to you" as a warmup to the upcoming Global Game Jam 2020.

Ben and Trevor give some Super Sized Click Pitch a go this week, combining adjectives, nouns and dirty jokes into some game designs, including: The bureaucracy of the brain The Haunting of Animal Crossing Necromancer Hitman True love's curse and more!

Play as pets attempting to achieve pure love from their owners, manage a health spa, announce at the X games with Monkey Island - insult sword fighting inspired mechanics and we discover the truth behind Tinder algorithm. All these games and more on this episode of Bit Storm.

It's a week for movie and TV game tie-ins, and Ben and Trevor tackle Spielberg's classic Arachnophobia, create a management sim out of The Good Place, bring back the classic 16-bit era of Disney platformers to some modern Pixar films, pull Jack Bauer out of retirement, and more!

In our third annual Game of the Year special we discuss the GOTY games that don't exist but should! With pitches ranging between 2 and 5 words from some of the best and brightest of the AGPN network and Twitter, Bionic Commando, managing a national park, Day of the Tentacle, bionic women and robot dinosaurs and a father son wrestling trip feature heavily.

What if the War on Christmas ended, and Christmas won? What happens when the Coca Cola company enslaves a powerful genie? What exactly is happening on the 54th floor of Xmas, Inc? Do you hear that Elf on the Shelf whispering in your ear? It's the Bit Storm Christmas episode, and Ben and Trevor are getting jolly with some Christmas Click Pitch!

Ben and Trevor return to the games of their youth and try to re-imagine what could be done with today's technology, with games such as Alone in the Dark, Manhunter: New York, Micro Machines and Descent.

Solving crimes with champagne, the Lemonade Mafia, a flappy super hero, Clown Battle Royale, a giant moon monster, and more as Ben and Trevor jump back into some more Click Pitch!

Another narrative heavy episode this week, with games such as a dodgy wine bar owner trying to get an insurance payout, Trinity's origin story from the Matrix and a GIT based game where you modify the game progress and merge story lines.

The story of 3 generations of women in technology, secretly trimming a friend's bonsai, changing time with scissors, and what happens when Trump nukes his own country? All this and more as Ben and Trevor play some more Click Pitch.

Games this week include Pastrami sandwich wars, finding food for the queen, barbershop quartet hitch-hiking and investigate a mystery in a world with cream based energy.

Hairy Monster Hunter, the first two games in Jackbox Party Pack 7, a sugary action adventure, remote tonsillectomies and more as Ben and Trevor team up for another Click Pitch session!

More crazy digital game ideas such as time jumping when you die in game, control an old man in VR trying to make a nice piece of toast or play as either Sonny or Cher in an action adventure game set in the world of D&D.

The love story between a cow and a sheep, light sabre shearing, manning a booth at a shopping center, preventing a nuclear meltdown with no instruction manual, and find out what lives inside the hollow Earth. Ben and Trevor are joined by by Ryan Betson and Tim Nugent this week, recorded live at PAX Australia in the Audio Technica booth!

Live from PAX 2019, Ben and Trevor find time to actually record on the go with their mobile studio. They talked to the developers behind such games as: Mega Punchy Golf Dead Static Drive Heavenly Bodies Cybermonk Brimstone Brawlers Elden: Path of the Forgotten Unpacking

After a game based on another Kurodust song, Trevor and Ben switch things up a bit in this episode and talk about a single game idea, and it's all about ghosts.