Bit Storm
405 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsA 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.
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Episodes
197: Paulie Gray
September 20, 2020 14:01 - 1 hour - 31 MBBen and Trev discuss a multitude of games that will never exist such as: A Long Kiss Goodnight esque action adventure A time traveller saving unwitting simulation prisoners A space ship building game set around smuglers A Harry Potter / Stardew valley mashup
196: Fairy Pig Mother
September 13, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 32.5 MBDating while avoiding mind altering horrors, becoming a monster census taker, a multiplayer, multi-week automation game with traitors, a STEM take on Cinderella, an anti-progress commune stuck in 1978, and much much more as Ben and Trevor close in on their 200th episode!
195: Totes A Rachel (featuring Alex Krause)
September 06, 2020 14:01 - 1 hour - 30.5 MBAlex Krause of the awesome improvised podcast "Know What You're in For w/ Disgraced Prison Warden Anthony B. Watts" joins Ben and Trevor this week to discuss a whole heap of games that don't yet exist including: Discovering new materials and technology with your friend Cthulu The smallest ever open world game set in a school A mash up of Noahs Ark and Island of Dr Moreau A poker playing adventure
194: Bycocket Cumberhat
August 30, 2020 14:01 - 1 hour - 33.1 MBAn affair between a smart house and one of their occupants, what happens when you get drunk with an anthropomorphic hat, the savage mutilation of a fertility idol, your first day at Serf College, an infestation of spine hugging aliens, and more as Ben and Trevor play some Ramped Up Click Pitch!
193: The Great Kangaroo / Emu War
August 23, 2020 14:01 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBThe Billy Madisonesque learning journey of a Fire Mage, a pedestrian puzzle game, a medieval dentist fights between dimesions, a continuous shrinking adventure and a highly emotional battle royale between Kangaroos and Emus. Ben and Trevor go in depth on all these game ideas plus more.
192: Up The Dumpty
August 16, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 29.8 MBFall into a life of crime to avoid losing your fingers, deliver important samples whilst juggling your side gig in adult movies, decide whether or not to air creepy serial killer puppet shows on your TV station, dive into the naughty world of Mother Goose, and more!
191: Else Troop
August 09, 2020 14:01 - 1 hour - 27.8 MBA new game idea generator is tried out, producing a rather unusual game about a giant. Other games include a rogue like set in small towns across the world, a magical watch can control time of the world around it, the secret origins of Plucka Duck and the true outcome of threatening or 'Else'
190: Pasta Witch: Origins
August 02, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 31.9 MBClick Picture is retired with a final game about the origins of the Pasta Witch and a chair-bound soccer goalie, but Click Pitch continues to generate game designs, including a chill game about rebuilding a model town, super-intelligent babies escaping their laboratory prison (Pikmin style), a more realistic world of vampires where vampires are sufferers of a dusty disease, and more!
189: Oxygen is Life
July 26, 2020 14:01 - 59 minutes - 27.3 MBBen and Trevor are on their own once again, playing with game ideas including: Living on your own in a world stripped of an atmosphere; A mobile game where you must develop new dye colours for your customers; A full service Uber/Lyft style driver simulator; James Bond RPG in the exciting world of HR; and more!
188: Altered Yeast (with Adal Rifai)
July 19, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 30.1 MBBen and Trevor are joined this week by Adal Rifai of Hey Riddle Riddle and Hello From The Magic Tavern and game designs spring forth, including: God's detective investigating crimes through history; a game of baking your own monsters and fighting them (Gotta Cook 'Em All!); the Knights of Woodwind battle against the evil Stringed Menace; a matchmaker using dubious sources; and more!
187: Sexy Sexy Leapfrog
July 12, 2020 14:01 - 1 hour - 31.7 MBThis week Ben and Trev discuss the following ideas throughout Ramped Up Click Pitch and Click Picture: the loneliness of solar mining, brawling psychic cats, the magical secret of floor 13, the generations old curse of a family is revealed, and of course a sexy deck builder.
186: Styx, Please
July 05, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 31.9 MBSpirits, doff your humans! Ben and Trevor take a trip to SpiritCon 2020; figure out who shot first, the chicken or the egg; uncover a long lost nicotine mascot; catch up with Cupid 30 years into her life; fall from a building in slow motion; and more!
185: Polly Want A Revolution
June 28, 2020 14:01 - 1 hour - 30 MBOver the top basketball with classic movie monsters, a rogue like based on the seven deadly sins, a game based around the super rock powers of Kurodust, the reaper takes a man on a trip to show why he's going to hell and if we are ever invaded by pineapple headed aliens, we must rise against their capitalist ideas. Ben and Trevor laugh their way through another set of Click Pictures and Click Pitches.
184: No Carrier
June 21, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 29.4 MBFrom a modempunk adventure running from an AI written in QBasic, to Daniel Radcliffe as a wizard assassin, by way of an engineer who knows parkour and must stop a speeding mag-lev monorail - this week's episode of Bit Storm will take you places!
183: Demigod Royale
June 14, 2020 14:01 - 1 hour - 27.7 MBDemigods running riot in the a Battle Royale set at a prestigious University, make yourself sick in VR by moving the camera around by throwing and carrying you head, play as a fish taking a vacation in Europe, and we discuss a Wing Commander-esque game set under the ocean after the nuclear winter that wiped out all life on the surface. Ben and Trevor stumble their way through these ideas on this episode of Bit Storm.
182: The Prince and the Paw Patrol
June 07, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 28.1 MBContent Warning: Body Horror We keep it simple this week and do a few long form Click Pitches, where we discover the next phase of the Flesh House saga, follow the story of a glow in the dark sticker, and fake our way through a movie premiere!
BLACK LIVES MATTER
June 02, 2020 14:00 - 3 minutes - 5.23 MBBit Storm stands in support with the Black Lives Matter movement which is thankfully getting more political support across the planet this week - if only it didn't take such tragic circumstances to make it happen. Donate to Black Lives Matter and the surrounding causes: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Listen to podcasts by people of colour, broaden your horizons, support them and expand your circle. Here are some lists of podcasts you could check out: https://www.podchaser.com/list...
181: Crazy Train
May 31, 2020 14:01 - 1 hour - 28.3 MBBen and Trevor are going off the rails on a crazy train talking about the following game ideas. A post utopic world where AI has abandoned us, the theoretical back story for Oscar the Grouch, a karaoke management game set in the world of Wind in the Willows and the aforementioned Crazy Train.
180: Atomic Comics
May 24, 2020 14:01 - 1 hour - 29.1 MBSome prime world building this week as Ben and Trevor Click Pitch and Click Picture their way to a game where Lucifer plays a PR agent in an earth-bound Heaven City, the troubled parent of a pyrokinetic child, a rogue-like built around hybrid animals, a chilled out day spent in a comic book store, and more!
179: Hipster Pirates
May 17, 2020 14:01 - 58 minutes - 26.9 MBYarr, have we got a crazy episode for you! An adventure game set in a soap opera, an alternate world version of Bruce Wayne, a cat version of the titanic and of course hipster pirates. Ben and Trev laugh their way through these ideas and more on this episode of Bit Storm.
178: Paul Blart Mall Rat
May 10, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 29.4 MBBetween horny cars and key parties it's a bit of a raunchy one this week, with games also including a nuclear powered pet generator, World War 2 soldiers finding themselves in pandemic-stricken 2020, a family trying to stay alive in the midst of a series of arson attacks, and more!
177: Reverse Vampires
May 03, 2020 14:01 - 1 hour - 32.8 MBClick Picture continues yet again with surprising results. An astronaut out of time, camera coverage in an underground museum, a survivor based adventure game, and a dangerous adversary that only appears in photos and reflections.
176: 13 Day Waiting Period
April 26, 2020 14:15 - 1 hour - 32.3 MBComputers that feel pain, cheating in a multiplayer marathon, a law-enforcing gelatinous cube, a carnival of horrors, a time travelling bicycle, and more as Ben and Trevor riff their way through some more Click Pitch!
175: Scatterbrain
April 19, 2020 14:01 - 1 hour - 30.6 MBArtificial Reality taking over the world, alien parasites causing long life and brain explosions, the unofficial sequel to Samurai Punks "The American Dream" and a world where the social networks have become full religions. These are just some of the crazy ideas discussed on today's episode.
174: The Great Gravy Gradventure
April 12, 2020 14:15 - 1 hour - 29.5 MBNew IPs galore this week, as Ben and Trevor Click Pitch (and Click Picture) their way to ideas such as: a world divided between humans and baked goods a Farmer's Olympics involving mostly gourds an intelligent toupee trying to take down the presidency a slug and a snail become the best of friends a sequel to I Am Bread (with zombies) and more!
173: What Kittens Want
April 05, 2020 14:01 - 55 minutes - 25.4 MBBen and Trevor are back with an all new episode of Bit Storm. Their weird takes on the following ideas feature throughout: Pretending that the weird goings on behind you are actually a Zoom background, a farm to table Tamagotchi adventure, the real reason tinsel was invented, getting high on a new drug and a world where the government supplies 1 (and only 1) cat per person.
172: Loose Margarine
March 28, 2020 14:15 - 1 hour - 29.1 MBBuild guns from parts before the horde arrives, backtrack through the last 48 hours of a Cyberpunk world, hug somebody while they throw clay on a wheel, switch back and forth between real life and a noir world, and more as Ben and Trevor bookend some Click Pitch with some Click Picture!
171: The Leprechaun
March 22, 2020 14:01 - 1 hour - 31.3 MBWith Ben being away Trevor invited his friends from the Inconsolables, Sammy Deedge and Mrs Llante. Together they caused absolute chaos and talked about numerous game ideas including, touching up faces, hallucinogenic mould, protecting the barrier reef as a politicians aid, the secret of climbing Mt Everest and a mysterious leprechaun is causing havoc in a small village. Twitter Links: Sammy Deedge Mrs Llante
170: Watermelons with Human Legs
March 15, 2020 14:15 - 1 hour - 29.3 MBTrialing the new game Click Picture this week, the boys invent a frantic VR childcare disaster, a journey through the upgrades of a girl living in a cyberpunk future, a different take on Fruit Ninja, a passport collecting pick pocket, a graffiti archaeologist, and more!
169: Pentagramsylvania
March 08, 2020 14:01 - 55 minutes - 25.6 MBIn one of the craziest episodes yet, Ben and Trevor discuss the neighborhood watch, the stasis effect in the Bermuda Triangle, who lives at 666 Devil Lane Pentagramsylvania and discover a brand new method for coming up with game ideas while coming up with a game based around sexy Tutankhamun Check out Eldritch Rites first full album release, Hell and Doom and Days Long Gone on Shadow Beast Records.
168: Oceans 100
February 29, 2020 14:01 - 1 hour - 30 MBCompete in the Outlaw Games, plan a heist against 99 other thieves, deliver letters between lovers separated by the war against the machines, find your true inner wolf as Little Red Riding Hood, and more this week as Ben and Trevor play Click Pitch!
167: Dream Police
February 23, 2020 14:01 - 1 hour - 30.8 MBThis week we investigate the team who keeps you safe in your dreams, how toilets get made, patient zero in an alien world, rewriteable media in a world where punchcards were the height of technology and what happened to the first manned mission to Mars.
166: House M.D. 2049
February 16, 2020 14:15 - 1 hour - 30.9 MBA 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!
165: Off The Rails
February 09, 2020 14:01 - 55 minutes - 25.6 MBBen 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.
Core Repair: GGJ 2020 Post Mortem
February 06, 2020 14:00 - 37 minutes - 17.2 MBBen 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!
164: RTFM
February 01, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 29.3 MBThe 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.
163: Zodiac's Fancy New Suit
January 26, 2020 14:01 - 1 hour - 30.2 MBLearn 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.
162: Crusty True Love
January 19, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 28.8 MBBen 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!
161: The Horse from Snowy River
January 12, 2020 14:01 - 1 hour - 27.6 MBPlay 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.
160: Construct Additional Janets
January 04, 2020 14:00 - 56 minutes - 26.5 MBIt'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!
159: Fish Tornadoes
December 29, 2019 14:01 - 1 hour - 36.4 MBIn 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.
158: Church of Saintnickology
December 22, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 31.5 MBWhat 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!
157: Follow the Rainbow
December 15, 2019 14:01 - 1 hour - 31.7 MBBen 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.
156: The Lemonade Mafia
December 08, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 29.2 MBSolving 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!
155: Smelly Eh!
December 01, 2019 14:01 - 1 hour - 29.1 MBAnother 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.
154: Stealth Bonsai
November 24, 2019 14:01 - 1 hour - 32.7 MBThe 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.
153: Cream Fusion
November 17, 2019 14:01 - 1 hour - 29.4 MBGames 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.
152: Horizon: Zero Dessert
November 10, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 29.8 MBHairy 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!
151: Bard and the Wiz'rd
November 03, 2019 14:01 - 1 hour - 30.6 MBMore 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.
150: Hollow Rise... (featuring Tim Nugent and Ryan Betson)
October 27, 2019 13:59 - 53 minutes - 24.3 MBThe 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!