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
100: Nothing But Net (Featuring Jono and Jack - Live from the Audio Technica booth @ PAX AUS)
November 11, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour - 53.3 MBTriple Digits! Recorded at PAX Australia in the wonderful Audio Technica booth, Ben and Trevor are joined by Jono Pech and Jack Kruse for episode #100! Maids as ammo, a post apocalyptic hot air balloon adventure, an ensemble cooking game starring the underused Apogee and Square Enix properties, a puzzle game where you need to accomodate smokers, a VR basketball/deli game, and more!
099: The Manchurian Puppet
November 04, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour - 44.4 MBTrev and Ben discuss a number of imaginary games once again in their Ramped Up Click Pitch segment. Games include a magic version of the sex talk, a conspiracy theorist who happens to be right about all his theories and an Orwell / Hacknet style game based in an alternate universe.
098: The Interminable Honk
October 28, 2018 03:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBA hobgoblin who starts a craft brewery, a phosphorent security guard, a pompous home owner, knock-off super heroes, a gritty remake of Gex, plus we return to the world of Starch Wars! All this and more in this week's Bit Storm, as Ben and Trevor ramp up Click Pitch again.
097: Law and Order: SLU
October 21, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBGames discussed in this weeks Ramped Up Click Pitch(tm) A game based on the technology from Inner Space, a mistress attending the funeral of her lover, the dangers of subtitles in the real world and the adventures of the newest superhero in town, "The Butterfly".
096: Thick Water
October 14, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour - 42.3 MBA zany mastermind with a plan to make her company the only source of water, a gem thief who transforms into a beast in the light, a very flexible cobra, a friendly mountain, and more as Ben and Trevor play some ramped up Click Pitch this week.
095: Surprise Shaman
October 07, 2018 03:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBBen and Trevor play ramped up Click Pitch again this week and come up with some of their crazier ideas to date. A psychedelic pirate adventure, a game set in the abandoned amusement park in Chernobyl before the accident and a fantasy hospital where you play an anaesthetist with a mallet as your main anaesthetic tool.
094: Muddle P.I.
September 30, 2018 04:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBBen and Trevor Click Pitch their way to a narrative noir game about a missing pot plant, a frantic multiplayer game set at a classy ball, a video game sequel to the Rush Hour trilogy, a Zelda/Back To The Future mashup, a National Treasure style adventure game, and more!
093: Underpants and Butts (Featuring Andrew Freeth from Juicy Cupcake)
September 23, 2018 04:00 - 59 minutes - 41.2 MBBen and Trevor welcome Andrew Freeth to the podcast and they come up with a number of interesting games including, Giants flinging humans around a battlefield, a typing game where you write a kickstarter press release and an erotic novel at the same time, a dark souls-esque romp through history and we reimagine what Brief Battles would be if Ben and Trevor had anything to do with it.
092: Drop Bears and Hoop Snakes
September 16, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBThis week: choose the upgrade path of your vicious Australian marsupial, become the keeper of the World Clock, team up with other scientists and unravel a conspiracy, help the spirit that has possessed your non-dominant hand, and see what happens when Mrs Clause has her moment and takes her rightful place as head of the North Pole.
091: The Incompetent Threshold
September 09, 2018 04:07 - 1 hour - 44.9 MBBen and Trevor ramp Click Pitch up a notch and come up with a variety of awesome games. A multiplayer shooter with civilian npcs, a western Scooby Doo mystery, unusual laser pointers and a game based on a rejected song from Kurodust. * Includes the only surviving recording of the song "The 1000". *
090: Danger Zone
September 02, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 44.1 MBBack to Click Pitch this week as Ben and Trevor dream up a multiplayer puppeteering game, the challenges of being a flight attendant, a flight combat game set in the aftermath of a modern US civil war, an RPG set in the world of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, a tactics game setting ballroom dancers against tap dancers, and a heartwarming story of a couple running a general store.
089: Three Course Mystery
August 26, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBThis episode we try out an old segment once again, Adventure Game Design Done Quick (AGDDQ), where we try to write the story and puzzles for a small point and click adventure game within the hour. The result is a narrative game that takes place over the three courses that are served to the captain's table.
088: Infinity Band
August 19, 2018 04:00 - 55 minutes - 38.5 MBBen and Trevor go back to the Harry Potter well in a game played within the margins of a Potions spell book, get serious with a game about a man down on his luck and on the streets, do some deep world building in which a technology can tell you how long you have left to live, reveal what really happened to the Hindenburg, and more!
087: Game Paste
August 12, 2018 04:00 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MBA VR puzzle game inspired by the Fools Errand, a momentum based game in which you must stop a lodge from crashing into an orphanage, a calm casual driving experience game with a secret locked in the trunk. These are just some of the crazy games that Ben and Trevor discussed this week.
086: Minecraft (but for spiders)
August 05, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 44.8 MBWhat is the gestational period of a common bridge troll? Can you help your future self save the planet? What happens to a typesetter's legacy when his son leaves for the war? Have we ever tackled so many serious questions in one episode? Listen to find out!
085: Fire All The Guns
July 30, 2018 03:27 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MBA VR game that warps time further than Superhot! A narrative game where you play a lawyer representing the creator of the hoverboard! A game where you must present a home you know nothing about to prospective home buyers. All these games and more on this episode of Bit Storm.
084: Tomb Raver (featuring Meg and Anthony from Screwtape Studios)
July 22, 2018 04:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBBen and Trevor are joined by Megan Summers and Anthony Wood from Screwtape Studios this week, and they come up with a smoke filled metroidvania, limb buying robots, a soul fishing contest between God and the Devil, a grammar obsessed teenager solving mysteries, a thief stealing only the best food, plus we subvert fairy tale tropes as we re-imagine Screwtape's game Damsel. Screwtape's Social Media: Website Damsel Twitter Steam Early Access
083: Metaphorical Cavity Search
July 15, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBJust relax, this week the games include border searches in a fantasy land, cheating in a 4 player co-op, maintaining a boiler in Antarctica and a competitive co-op cow rustling game. Ben and Trevor laugh their way through another action packed episode of Bit Storm.
082: Workplace Tag
July 08, 2018 04:00 - 58 minutes - 40.6 MBDelivering script pages via parkour, playing a high stakes game of Tag in the office, Spy Party-esque multiplayer in an exam room, the long sordid tale of a single chapstick, cartoon physics as gameplay mechanics, and the infinite path of an actor's life - all this and more in Bit Storm this week!
081: Purge the Calendar
July 01, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 44.4 MBA gritty reimagining of Bubble Bobble, Lemmings in VR, the world's reaction to a misprinted calendar and a time travelling scientist. Just a small selection of the games that we covered this week on Bit Storm.
080: Left 4 Bread
June 24, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 47 MBBen 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!
079: The Nun Direction
June 17, 2018 04:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBTwo 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.
078: Judi Dench: Train Eater
June 10, 2018 04:05 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBForget 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 thrilli...
077: Feudal England
June 03, 2018 04:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBA 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.
076: The Fourth Rule of Gremlins
May 27, 2018 04:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBAn 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!
075: The Horny Hornet
May 20, 2018 04:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBA 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.
074: Get Me A Weasley
May 13, 2018 05:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBDown 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 nev...
073: Lactose Intolerant
May 06, 2018 04:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBA 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
072: Winner Winner Human Dinner (featuring Barney Cumming)
April 29, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 47.1 MBTrevor 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: http...
071: Orphanazi
April 22, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 54 MBWhere 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.
070: The Prime Nephew
April 15, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBWhat 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!
069: Noice!
April 08, 2018 04:00 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MBThings 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.
068: Ask Jeeves
April 01, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 46.2 MBIt'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.
067: Fungi Cold Medina
March 25, 2018 03:00 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBBen 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.
066: Clock Fluid
March 20, 2018 03:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBA 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!
065: Weird Al is our Spirit Animal
March 11, 2018 03:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBBen 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.
064: Mirror Universe
March 04, 2018 03:00 - 59 minutes - 41.3 MBThings 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.
063: 300 Rats in a Human Suit
February 25, 2018 03:00 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MBBen 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.
062: Kidnapping is not cool
February 18, 2018 03:00 - 56 minutes - 39.3 MBTrevor 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.
061: The Wrong Joey
February 11, 2018 03:00 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MBThis 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!
060: Lasertron (Featuring Callan Davison of Game Train Podcast)
February 04, 2018 03:00 - 59 minutes - 41.2 MBBen 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
Boom (tm) - Global Game Jam 2018
January 31, 2018 15:00 - 18 minutes - 13.5 MBBen 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
059: High Pressure Hairdressing
January 28, 2018 03:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MBIn 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!
058: What Do We Do Now?
January 21, 2018 03:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBIn 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.
057: Brandon's Been Branded
January 14, 2018 03:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBIn 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/cont...
056: Billy Knives
January 07, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBTrevor 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.
055: Big Candy
December 31, 2017 03:00 - 1 hour - 28.1 MBBen 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!
054: Sorry Mum, I Did Crime (Special GOTY Episode)
December 28, 2017 03:00 - 47 minutes - 21.8 MBIn 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!
053: Liquid Metal Santa
December 24, 2017 09:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBMerry 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.
052: Not all fat guys are called Bob (Featuring Adam "Pez" Perry)
December 17, 2017 03:00 - 58 minutes - 40.6 MBBen 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.