Sinopsis
A comedy game design podcast by two guys who know nothing about comedy nor game design.Join Trevor Scott and Ben Slinger as they take prompts from random word generators, movies, game titles and more and turn them into occasionally hilarious but always interesting game designs.
Episodios
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080: Left 4 Bread
24/06/2018 Duración: 01h08minBen and Trevor deep dive into a couple of heavy world building games this episode, including a Black Mirror-esque world where Augmented Reality is the norm and a mystery told through flashbacks during a home invasion. They also explore a co-op survival game using Left 4 Dead's director technology, a wacky VR game of bow analysis, an FTL/X-Com hybrid, a tycoon game dealing with family relationships, and more!
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079: The Nun Direction
17/06/2018 Duración: 57minTwo bakers in 18th century France competively baking cakes. The take home version of Bit Storm's Click Pitch(TM). A galaxy contained within a bubble. The many habits of Doctor Livingstone. An educational game about LGBTQIA+. All these games and more on this weeks episode of Bit Storm.
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078: Judi Dench: Train Eater
10/06/2018 Duración: 59minForget all the other gaming websites, we have your E3 2018 exclusives right here! Coming this summer to a game store near you, the latest FPS blockbuster starring the most badass octogenarian: JUDI DENCH: TRAIN EATER. Also look out for the preview trailers for third person brawler "Gnomes: Guardians of the Garden", hacking and investigation game "When Self Driving Cars Attack", VR extravaganza "Buffet Breakfast Breakdown", the multiplayer streaming VR hit "The Killing Circle" and the thrilling sneak-em-up "Is That An AI In Your Headset Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?" PLUS! A sneak peek at the new Star Wars indie game: R2B2 And The Golden Man!
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077: Feudal England
03/06/2018 Duración: 59minA narrative game based on a boxer that bets on his own fights, a used car salesman simulator, the secret origin of language on earth, a telepathic alien baby breaks out of area 52 and a family fighting to survive in Feudal England. All these ideas were somehow turned into games in this episode of Bit Storm.
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076: The Fourth Rule of Gremlins
27/05/2018 Duración: 58minAn alien spider with an expansive skill tree, a rogue-like Gremlins game set in the Old West, a food fight turned lethal, a bullfighter reincarnated as a bull, plus find out the real story behind Gargamel and the Smurfs - all of this and more in this week's Bit Storm!
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075: The Horny Hornet
20/05/2018 Duración: 57minA Dark Souls style game set in a Buffy-esque universe where the "Chosen one" is Scatman John. A suspenseful game set in an abandoned theme park where you play as the Mascot who never left when the park closed down. A vengeful Hornet who is chasing the spider that stole its wings, armed only with a stinger and springs. Ben and Trevor laugh their way through another crazy round of Click Pitch on this episode of Bit Storm.
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074: Get Me A Weasley
13/05/2018 Duración: 58minDown in the dumps? We prescribe this episode of Bit Storm, where Ben and Trevor come up with video game tie-ins for the Bill & Ted franchise as well as creating the MVGU (Marvel Video Game Universe), along with a game about a dolphin on the police force, a kindergarten rife with politics and backstabbing, a VR drainage based puzzle game and a cross between X-Com and Stardew Valley. Warning: side effects may include laughter, groans, and an existential disappointment that these games will never exist.
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073: Lactose Intolerant
06/05/2018 Duración: 58minA guy who survived the extinction of mankind while demoing a fallout shelter! A No One Lives Forever inspired spy romp against a villian hell bent on destroying the UK with Mad Cow Disease! Vegans and people with Lactose intolerance team up against a deadly common threat! These are just some of the games that Ben and Trevor muddled though in Click Pitch this week. dQff4V8jUQ6LFND2aQjJ
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072: Winner Winner Human Dinner (featuring Barney Cumming)
29/04/2018 Duración: 01h08minTrevor and Ben are joined by Barney Cumming of Powerhoof this week, and the resulting stampede leaves behind a game where you play a recluse solving a mystery via garbage and crosswords, a HVAC engineer who is sensibly doing their job, we explore the fine art of observatory equipment requisition, and we reinvent Powerhoof's Regular Human Basketball into a Space Jam-esque adventure! Find Barney online: Website: https://www.powerhoof.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/powerhoof Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/powerhoof/
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071: Orphanazi
22/04/2018 Duración: 01h18minWhere is that piano music coming from? What if Hansel and Gretel wanted to live with the witch? How long could you survive on a distant planet where the day is deadlier than the night? Ben and Trevor attempt to answer all these questions while playing a rousing game of Click Pitch. All on this episode of Bit Storm.
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070: The Prime Nephew
15/04/2018 Duración: 01h05minWhat would Space Quest 7 be like if Roger Wilco was turned into pure electricity? What if the next ridiculous teenage trend had something to do with a hydraulic press? What's the best way for a gopher to steal balls on a golf course? And what do you do if you find out you have a particularly special nephew? Ben and Trevor answer all these questions on this week's episode of Bit Storm!
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069: Noice!
08/04/2018 Duración: 52minThings are getting steamy in episode 69! Noice! Games this week include alien dictators, alternate universes with word searches instead of crosswords, theatre lighting in VR and a SWAT style game with a twist.
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068: Ask Jeeves
01/04/2018 Duración: 01h07minIt's 2002, and you find a mysterious floppy disk in a secret government file. What you find on it will shock you! Ben and Trevor Click Pitch their way to this game and more, including a reverse rogue-like where you are rehabilitating a dungeon, a VR puzzle adventure where you rearrange memories, procedurally generated high school cliques, and a narrative game set in the 1930's where you must ration out your only 6 bullets.
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067: Fungi Cold Medina
25/03/2018 Duración: 53minBen and Trevor return for an in-depth discussion of 4 made up games. Games include human sized pigs and pig sized humans set in an RPG, a rogue-like adventure beneath the waves and we discover the secret truth of how humanity evolved on Earth.
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066: Clock Fluid
20/03/2018 Duración: 58minA management game where you are tasked with building the best pub crawl route, an extreme couponing game with gameplay from both sides of the register, a world where the very concept of time relies on a mysterious fluid, and the much needed movie tie-ins for Cube, Key & Peele, Speed 3 and the entire oeuvre of Stephen King. All this and more from the minds of Ben and Trevor this week!
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065: Weird Al is our Spirit Animal
11/03/2018 Duración: 57minBen and Trevor cough their way through another episode (don't worry, we cut them all out) and sneeze up a world where there is no gravity due to planet eating worms, get Saturday Night feverish with a hitman who is stuck in the 70s, find love in a tennis player who is making a comeback, somehow manage to make a game out of the TV series Bottom, and are inspired multiple times by Weird Al Yankovic resulting in cameos that span decades.
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064: Mirror Universe
04/03/2018 Duración: 59minThings get a little weird as Ben and Trevor delve into some more Click Pitch. Games include robot cows, neanderthal social networking and an attack that occurs within the mirror universe.
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063: 300 Rats in a Human Suit
25/02/2018 Duración: 52minBen and Trevor return for another thrilling game of Click Pitch. Games include a group of 300 rats trying to pass themselves as human, managing a local voting centre and finally attempting to defraud hunters into believing bigfoot and other cryptids exist.
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062: Kidnapping is not cool
18/02/2018 Duración: 56minTrevor and Ben return for another fun filled episode of Bit Storm. They design an open world game in which you play a flea on a dogs body, Ben tries to kidnap a kid and teach them the art of thieving and finally they redesign the Nintendo Labo to be a Harry Potter like potions lab.
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061: The Wrong Joey
11/02/2018 Duración: 59minThis week, Ben and Trevor will be there for you as they create an adventure game crossing over classic sitcoms, a VR game set in a phone booth during an alien invasion, a game about the friendship between a gestating alien fetus and its human companion (a la The Shape Of Water), a puzzle game about covering up your nudie bits, and more!