Bit Storm

Ben and Trev discuss a multitude of games that will never exist such as:A Long Kiss Goodnight esque action adventureA time traveller saving unwitting simulation prisonersA space ship building game set around smuglersA Harry Potter / Stardew valley mashup

Dating 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!

Alex 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 CthuluThe smallest ever open world game set in a schoolA mash up of Noahs Ark and Island of Dr MoreauA poker playing adventure

An 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!

The 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.

Fall 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!

A 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'

Click 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!

Ben 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!

Ben 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!

This 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.

Spirits, 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!

Over 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.

From 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!

Demigods 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.

Content Warning: Body HorrorWe 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!

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Ben 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.

Some 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!

Yarr, 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.