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Ben and Trev welcome Callan Davison of the Game Train Podcast to the Bit Cave to play some Click Pitch. Game ideas include living batteries that thrive on love, a zookeeper gets a taste of his own medicine and a PUBG styled murder mystery game on a Star Trek starship. Disclaimer: Sorry about the dodgy audio

Ben and Trevor do a post mortem of their Global Game Jam experience! Hear about their experiences jamming in Melbourne, the brainstorming and development process, then play their final game! Play the game here: https://globalgamejam.org/2018/games/boom-tm Video during development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GzC6CpdLZw

In their third and final Global Game Jam themed episode, Ben and Trevor take the theme "The Sound of a Beating Heart" and apply it to all their Click Pitch rounds this week! It results in a blood sucking rhythm game, a toe trimming simulator, a superhero ant, a game where you dispose of bodies for the mafia, a teenager finding their way to the underworld, and more!

In the second of their Global Game Jam themed episodes, Ben and Trevor take the theme 'What Do We Do Now' and use it in every Click Pitch this week! The result is a VR experience of vacuuming up Grandma's ashes, a dung beetle pushing a dung ball around a crowded city and the worst game of "Basketball" ever envisioned.

In the first of their Global Game Jam themed episodes, Ben and Trevor take the theme 'Deception' and use it in every Click Pitch this week! The result is a squirrel trying to steal nuts in a metroidvania set in a zoo, a reporter trying to infiltrate a secret society in the lead up to World War 2, the follow up to Rockstar's Bully finally being released 70 years late, and we design the latest version of the Fit Bit! Ben's GGJ 2011 Entry, Containment: http://archive.globalgamejam.org/2011/containment

Trevor welcomed Ben to his humble abode and they recorded a live episode. They played some Click Pitch and things got a little weird, with games including themes such as Batman's new arch enemy, a prison breakout, a Star Trek / Mass Effect crossover and shaking down criminals to find the drug kingpin. Disclaimer: The audio in this episode is not up to our usual quality, there are approximately 8 minutes of distorted audio within 4 distinct sections. With any luck this won't occur again.

Ben and Trevor are starting the New Year with a jam-packed episode, including a Goonies sequel featuring the children of the original cast, how to make whiskey using time travel, what the seniors at Hogwarts get up to when nobody is watching, henchman that know they're in a video game, a horror movie management game, and more!

In an extra special mid-week episode, Ben and Trevor create their Game Of The Year based on pitches from their audience. Which one will win? An interstellar twist on a classic pub game? Teen monsters pulling pranks? A game that has a Doctor Who back story for no reason? The heart wrenching story of a criminal confessing to his mother? Or the sequel to one of our previous games, mashed up with a classic 80s flick? Listen to find out!

Merry Christmas! Ben and Trevor have a very special Christmas gift for everyone in the form of a Christmas themed Click Pitch. They design some very unusual games, including a Santa based cover shooter, a snowman builder and a Christmas themed prequel to the Incredibles.

Ben and Trevor welcome Adam "Pez" Perry, previously of the You Game Bro podcast, to discuss imaginary games such as an adventure game where an entomologist discovers a deadly secret about ladybugs, Micro Transaction Simulator 2018, a wild west open world game with a major difference and a BJ simulator.

Ben and Trevor are back at it, imagining a horde shooter where your only method of communication is random noises, an open world sea monster game, a meringue based platformer, a sprawling adventure set in the world of board games, a competitive goat-based king of the mountain game, and a stealthy restaurant patron with high class tastes.

In our notable 50th episode, Ben and Trevor pitch game designs involving an itchy actor trying to keep it under control, an egg council lobbyist just trying to make a living, what happens when humans stay in VR for too long, a bullet hell shooter where you control a pair of wings, mouse commandos, and the tragic tale of a child and their cat.

Ben and Trev welcome the Inconsolables back to the pod, and they bring a mysterious new third member. They drunkenly all play a rousing game of Click Pitch and come up with games including a fruit based porn movie, CSI Paddle boats and a Rube Goldberg machine that punches Hitler in the face. Recorded live in the Inconsolables hotel room, the week before PAX.

We give a salute to the poorly under-used Waluigi and try to find him a game, crap on about Judge Dredd for a while, create a domestic stealth game starring a kid trying to make mischief, revel in the violent aftermath of PAX, imagine an undercover cop trying to stay honest, an exhibitionist paramedic, and imagine modern sequels to Space Quest and Captain Comic.

In the 2nd of 3 PAX themed episodes, Ben and Trevor record in front of a live studio audience... of one. Together they designed an intriguing stealth game set within a closed down mint, a competitive multiplayer game where teachers in a school try to catch greased up pigs and take us on a peaceful journey where the Snake UN have sent an emissary of peace, a Peace Python if you will, to the Human UN. Recorded at the Podcasts on the Promenade @ the Plus Five bar

This week Ben and Trevor describe a game about returning items to a very specific type of store, throw together a rhythm based customer service experience, play Telephone with a rumour mongering game that would not be out of place in the Jackbox Party Pack, throw some witty repartee in an asynchronous mobile app, and write the game tie-in to Netflix original Santa Clarita Diet. Yummy!

Ben and Trevor had the privilege of recording at the Audio Technica booth, on the convention floor @ PAX. They welcomed Benny from the Hungry Gamers podcast and Nato from the 4 Yanks 1 Aussie podcast to play some very quick Click Pitch. Together they came up with games such as a Graveyard simulation where the dead and buried may not yet be dead, a VR boat simulator that comes with it's own sick bucket, and a Midlife Crisis simulator where you get to build your very own Man Cave.

Take flight as Ben and Trevor explore game ideas like a witch who must use her broom as an umbrella, a doctor struggling to delivery vital organs across a city, Weird Al fighting his way across heaven and hell, a Canadian organized crime simulator, plus strategies for what happens when you find yourself in an Olympic sized swimming pool being chased by a bear.

Get out your checkbooks as Ben and Trevor might be in a little legal trouble. We come up with two Disney themed Click Pitches, one based on Toy Story, the other based on Cars. Other games may include: a depressed garbage truck, a very scary carnival and a world where everyone wears thermal goggles.

For our 1 year anniversary episode, Ben and Trevor do the exact same thing they do every week: come up with game ideas! This week we discover a world where everybody is genetically predisposed to arson, join an android on their year long journey through space, try desperately to find the right adapter for our new game console, learn sign language in stressful situations, produce a sitcom and re-imagine the VR game Lone Echo.