Bit Storm

Ben and Trev get spooky with this years Hole-o-ween special. This year they are playing Ramped Up Click Pitch to get their prompts and the games discussed were:a game where you control a marionette manuallya horror game set at a camp for toddlersa game called All Draculas Hate Dentists

This week Ben and Trevor take random movies as prompts and come up with improvised video games, including:a Pacific Rim/Commando mash-up where you are an ex-mech fighter brought back to save your daughter;a point and click adventure where you play two slightly naive men looking after some difficult kids;an investigate reporter tries to discover the source of the shocking visions of a rich heir;and more!

Ben and Trev are once again live from PAX, this time sitting above the handheld area, where they play some Click Pitch. The games that will never exist but yet are discussed involved:Controlling dangerous fantasy creatures in a national parkAvoid aliens by continually maintaining rhythm while going through lifePay actual bills with actual money through space invaders styled gameplay

Ben and Trevor take notes from GOTY contender UFO 50 by improvising limited scope games, such as:a mouse digging his way between houses, looking for treats;dueling painters trying to be the one who paints the most of a house;California Games meets the legal system;and more!

Ben and Trev are back on video, and are ready to introduce a new segment to the podcast. What is it??? You'll have to listen to find out.Games discussed includeMonique the leek runs for president as your character trys to turn from antagonist to protagonist.Search through videos from an archive to solve a mysteryAn adventure game set in a school staff room.

A new season begins, and Trevor and Ben take random movie prompts and turn them into improvised video game ideas, including:a spy thriller take on My Dinner With Andrea tense sci-fi survival game set next to volcanic vents in the deepest oceana mystery revolving around a friend lost in a haunted theme park rideand more!

Well, it's come time to finally end Bit Storm... Season 1. Ben and Trev have decided that 400 episodes is the perfect length for a season of a podcast, so this is the final episode of season 1. They discuss games that still don't exist at length like:A timeloop adventure set between the hours of 9am and 3pm at an officeA dystopian adventure where the main character realises they are not like everyone elseA cosy game where you unpack a hoard.

Ben and Trevor get down with some Click Pitch, improvising video game ideas such as:a game played on your phone where you are trying to find your missing friend Jared;a tea-bag factory simulator;playing as an eccentric architect trying to build the best tower for his community;and more!

Ben and Trev try their hand at video in this audio medium. So there's plenty of references to a non existant video version as Trevor was too lazy to actually put the video up. They talked about some cool games though, like:A management game set in a resortA point and click adventure game about a facehugger trying to find a face to hug.A clothes manufacturing game where the only fabric available is velvet.

This week Ben and Trevor use the theme from GMTK Jam 2024 "Built To Scale" in all of their Click Pitches and come up with improvised video games such as:a Katamari style kids shape spinnera super-spy finding themself in a tiny citya co-op game where the players balance food as they deliver it to a giantand more!

***Trigger Warning: Suicide***Ben and Trev delve deep into Pixar's Cars universe and realise the real truth behind the Cars that Disney doesn't want you to know. Also they talk about games that don't exist:Interior designing in the Cars universeTakedowns such as those in Burnout, but in the Cars universeAn RPG with medicinal magic powers.

Ben and Trevor hit the course for a round of improvised video game development, this week seeing how golf mechanics might affect different genres.

Ben invites Trev back over to again record in person. They play classic Click Pitch and discuss some interesting games, such as:Serving sausages in space in VRExplore conversations through non linear timeThe origin of the laughing clown

Ben and Trevor record in-person this week, Click Pitching their way to game ideas such as:a Quantic Dream style game where somebody finds out something terrible about their spouse thanks to their affaira horror game set at an abandoned water park in the bright light of day another horror game, but closer to home as you deal with bathroom renovations;and more!

Ben and Trev return to a prompt game they haven't done in a while, What 3 Words. The games they come up with are interesting to say the least:A tower defence game against a singular case workerManage a farmers market set in Kevin Costner's WaterworldUse a programming language to defend the world against the incoming world of Mondas.

Ben and Trevor kick off with some movie title inspired game designs, including:a tense mystery game set in a police station inspired by The Crazies and The Guilty;a game where you play the cameraperson for a team of ghost hunters;a mash-up of Deliverance and Back Draft about an arson investigator in the deep south;and more!

Ben and Trev delve back into the dumpster of Dark Steam to review games that "definitely exist" and discuss the following games and more as reviews:Dead or Alive: Hobo in the Magic KingdomBioskyGrey's Anatomatch Three

A ramped up week of Click Pitch as Ben and Trevor riff on game design ideas such as:discovering your society is living inside the sleeping body of a titan;the disastrous case of 60 Armageddonsthe art gallery of the far future;and more!

Ben and Trev are back at it again with a bunch more games that will never exist. The games they discuss this week are:A puzzle based love matching game set in a Grey's Anatomy style hospitalA top down rogue like with elements of Pacific Drive and the apocalypseA Night at the Museum inspired adventure game set in a costco

Via mysterious video tape, Ben and Trevor present the next stage in the saga of Big Flip Games, now a subsidiary of Killian Games. Gamification in the workplace, lawful kisses, gravity knives, and more!Thanks to Alex Krause for joining us! Check out https://bigtallboys.com