Bit Storm

While Ben is in Canada we have a number of smaller episodes entitled "Bit Drizzle" ready for your listening pleasure. In this episode Ben and Trevor discuss a game featuring Twinder, sentient candy and they return to the world of anthropomorphic root vegetables that still don't like their leafy cousins.

Trevor welcomes Andrew Natoli (@Kalgar) and Paul Cunningham (@ThundermaceAus) from the Inconsolables podcast to riff on crazy ideas involving the celestial dance of the moon and the sun, hunting humans, wrestling in wine cellars and a rip off homage of Super Meat Boy called Super Corn Boy.

While Ben is in Canada we have a number of smaller episodes entitled, Bit Drizzle, ready for your listening pleasure. In this episode the boys talk about sentient baked goods, try to take down the fraternity system and tell a lovely story about a grandma and her grand-daughter.

In their last episode before Ben heads off to Canada leaving Trevor to fend for himself for 6 weeks, the boys come up with some interesting mechanics involving a second-person action/adventure game, losing time instead of health, picking procedurally generated people out of a police lineup and finding the best way to spend one million bucks. Plus some Doctor Who thing, I don't know.

This week on Bit Storm: watch our for flames as you hatch a dragon's egg, see how large you can grow your lint ball, discover the intricacies of playing curling on a basketball court, drive a car as a small child and solve nursery rhyme crimes with Ben and Trevor.

Multiplayer backstabbing while diverting asteroids, skeleton jigsaw puzzles, avoiding the flu and images burning into your brain like an old CRT - just a few of the game mechanics in this week's episode. Join Ben and Trevor as they Click Pitch the night away!

The Atari 2600 game ET, ducks pulling off bank heists, Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, kiwis (the bird, not the fruit), the Dewey Decimal System and far too many secret agents; these are just a few of the ideas tackled in this week's crop of Click Pitch games by Trevor and Ben. If you've ever wanted a period piece about the great video game crash of the 80s, (and really, who hasn't thought about that at least once in their lives?), this is the episode for you! Click Pitch Fate Funeral Flight Ground Seek Tower Upsetting Contemporary Ability Park Cartridge Sneak Naughty Scholar Insert Library

Ben and Trevor click the night away and invent a gel based multiplayer squad shooter with Minecraft building mechanics, an alien raising simulator as metaphor for raising a human child, a Moonlighting sequel which reveals an old nemesis, plus they fight off boars to gain access to the fountain of youth and much more! Click Pitch Noisiness Synonym South Semi-Final Emptying Counter-Attack Fondness Triple Axe Sensationalism Boar Fountain Moonlighting Baffled

Ben and Trevor are joined by Jacob Janerka this week, creator of the wonderfully funny Paradigm! In recognition of the success of his point and click adventure, as well as the fortuitous timing of Adventure Jam 2017, we decided to do our Adventure Game Design Done Quick segment, which we haven't done since episode 2! We each pitched a few ideas for small adventure games, and then spent the hour working through the story and puzzles. Keep your limbs inside the podcast at all times, it's quite a trip! Jacob's Links: Paradigm on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/600370/Paradigm/ Paradigm on the web: http://www.paradigmadventure.com/ Paradigm on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Paradigmgame/ Jacob on Twitter: https://twitter.com/paradigmgame

Vegetables abound this week as Ben and Trevor are joined by Brendan White from fellow AGPN podcast The Hungry Gamers. We imagine a world where root vegetables are made sentient and fight their leafy above ground foes, a chalky stegosaurus tracking down fare evaders and solving a mystery, a Transformers heist game, a grisly 19th century murder mystery starring Willem Dafoe and using the Death Stranding technology, and we re-imagine The Last Of Us as a new entry into the Universal Monsters canon. Click Pitch Vegetation Hangover Wringer Root Celery Snarl Forgetful Cutting Emissary Robbery Battery Airplane Outcast Dinosaur Fare Disintegration Designer Nutmeg Rolling Raven Adornment Reimagined: The Last Of Us 2

Alone again, Trevor and Ben get a little bit silly and invent a game with analogue breathing controls, a bachelor party planning simulator, a school-based stealth game set in the 80s, and took ideas for movie tie-ins from AGPN resulting in a new Scarface game with goblins, a horror game based (very loosely) on Night Shift, and finally a good Stargate SG-1 game. Click Pitch Constitution Blowing Stagger Spending Attach Lover Paging Approval Movie Tie-ins Debbie Does Dallas Scarface Birdman Stargate SG-1 Night Shift La La Land

With the help of Daniel Mason from The S.O.A.P podcast, this week Ben and Trevor turned random words into an action adventure played in a world run by a giant totalitarian octopus, a saliva based collectible figurine game, a Lord of the Rings themed game played over the course of months with Pokemon Snap inspirations, turned The Wizard of Oz into a giant world-spanning RPG, and reimagined Cyberpunk: 2077 as a personal story experienced through the interface of an old school BBS.

Ben and Trevor are joined by John Kane from Gritfish for a very adventure game heavy episode - we brainstorm a Thimbleweed Park inspired murder mystery set at a comic book convention in an alternate universe where Garfield is the ultimate in pop culture, a beehive simulator controlled entirely through dance, a game where you control a chicken and her egg simultaneously, an 80s themed RPG set in a world divided into musical genres narrated by Weird Al Yankovic, and we reimagine Gritfish's Mallow Drops as a punishing platformer where you play a suicidal s'more to be. Click Pitch: Men Highlighting Chain Crossing Hatching Fond Worse Imperialist Owner Beehive Signing Explanation Silversmith Scheduling Agony Sailor Detective Exhibition Synthesis Seal Harp Reimagined: Mallow Drops by Gritfish Games John's Links John on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gritfish Gritfish on the web: http://www.gritfish.net/ Mallow Drops on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/381340 Mallow Drops on the App

This week Laura Voss, Creative Director at Harmonious Games joined Ben and Trevor in the Click Pitch hot seat. We ruminate on waffle decorum and pancake physics, spy on drunks hiding in futuristic speakeasies, handle divorce cases between giants and dwarves, build a technologically advanced mole colony to efficiently steal carrots, and consider a Fresh Prince of Bel Air platforming game. Plus we throw a few ideas around in an attempt to reimagine Harmonious Games' latest release Putty Pals, resulting in a VR action extravaganza.

This week on Bit Storm (new name!): Kamina Vincent, producer at Mountains, helped us get political to make an Animal Farm inspired farm management game, a PolyBridge-esque restaurant automation game, we won the heart and minds of the populace through well placed advertising and propaganda in Crosswalk Battlefield, and we did a remarkably accurate reimagining of What Remains of Edith Finch by Giant Sparrow. Plus a seasonally appropriate Easter adventure that ends in a bunny bloodbath. Who says games aren't art?

Giselle Rosman of Hipster Whale, the Melbourne IGDA and the Global Game Jam is our guest this week, helping Ben and Trevor turn random prompts into games where babies play basketball, dogs have to pee their own landmarks, a wandering chaperone moves from school to school making sure there's no funny business happening, and a ghost has to alter its environment to make sure everybody finds their soulmate. Finally, while reimagining Thimbleweed Park by Terrible Toybox we bring the time-honoured adventure game staple of pixel hunting into the VR space - I can hear Ron Gilbert's facepalm from here.

Co-host of The Inconsolables Andrew Natoli joins Trevor and Ben for a spicy good time! Game pitches this week include the new Hogwarts adventures of Fiddler and Louse, the tribulations of raising a baby mech alongside your human children, the son of God as a limo driver, and we reimagine Atlus's Persona 5 as a clone filled action brawler mixed with a bit of Banjo-Kazooie. Oh, plus sentient spice jars riding T-bone steaks, because that's how we roll.

Ben and Trevor are joined this week by Mitch Loh from the Pixel Sift podcast! We find ourselves in some familiar Lame Storming territory with games set at funerals and involving people in mascot suits - you'll have to listen to find out if that's one game idea or two. We make countless references to B-grade Australian celebrities in a telethon simulation game, and reimagine Horizon: Zero Dawn as a mashup of every Vin Diesel movie ever made.

Pete Curulli from the fantastic Game On Australia podcast joins Ben and Trevor this week in a cavalcade of potty humour and Star Wars jokes. We discover the new ARG for Blizzard's next Overwatch character reveal, re-invent the meaning of 'Season Pass', come up with a bird based MOBA, challenge theme park mascots to hold their pee and re-imagine The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as a fart based game made beautiful by Team Ico . Don't lose any of that StinkMass™!

With the help of Gustav Seymore from Lost Goblin, Trevor and Ben take this week's prompts and turn them into management games involving valet parking, high school relationships and sentient hams, as well as an action adventure game starring a bright and shiny shorts wearing detective, a dark and twisted movie making game and an alternate version of Lost Goblin's 'Goblins of Elderstone' with an elderly protagonist summoning goblins.