Bit Storm

Ben and Trevor have returned from the quickest hiatus in history to bring more weird ideas from the depths of their collective minds. Games discussed include: the newest comic book "hero" the Handyman, a factory controlled by monkeys, a necromantic/instructional kids game and a Metroidvania where two stoners go in search of the mysterious "Yellow".

Replicating wreckages, fighting premonitions of death and fate, inflicting world peace via mattresses, a cock (rooster) wielding a blowtorch to save chickens, a hospital fighting the resistance to “laughter is the best medicine” and lastly an insomniac wanting nothing but just some alone time in the night without disrupting their loved one’s sleep. As part of the AGPN Shuffle, this week’s hosts are Rowan And Blue from Platforms and Pitfalls, a game design podcast, you can find more about it either at Podchaser (https://www.podchaser.com/PlatformsAndPitfalls) or their website (https://www.idris-effect.net/platformsandpitfalls) For more AGPN Shuffle episodes: https://www.podchaser.com/lists/AGPN-Shuffle-2019-4170

A humiliated news anchor running from angry mobs, Mario & Luigi's Plumber Party, a VR pharmacy and diagnosis sim, a lost plush toy trying to reach its owner, the police unit responsible for airborne infractions - all this and more as Ben and Trevor are joined by Sammy from the Inconsolables this week!

Drew Agnew, from the House of Mario podcast, joins Ben and Trevor this week to discuss numerous fake games with ludicrous themes such as, a 90 second Battle Royale game with a twist, exploring a giant floating turtle, eyedrops that cause eyes to become sentient, and finally an 8 bit RTS Battle Royale with hacking mechanics.

A detective interrogating the maker (of the universe?), an adventure game based loosely on American Vandal, a Lost real time strategy set in an alternate universe and a new breed of heroes come together as a Special Tusk Force. Ben and Trevor laugh their way through these ideas and more.

To celebrate joining the Atebit Collective, Brendan White of The Hungry Gamers joins Ben and Trevor this week, bringing a new army of villainous dentists into the Bit Storm canon, plus a superhero lion, a date gone very wrong, a very hungry lawn, a parrot detective, and more of his dark desires.

Ben and Trevor give a brief rundown of their experience at the Global Game Jam 2019, including the ideas they didn't use, and the development of their prototype game Ghost Home. Play Ghost Home now! https://globalgamejam.org/2019/games/ghost-home-0

Ben and Trevor bring to you another group of crazy ideas. A genetically engineered bear, a day in the life of a medievil stable boy, a mystery shopper observation game with a twist and a hell management game where you plan out the punishments.

A knight cop and her rogue partner keeping the streets safe from wizards, the new platforming hit Bubsy and the Scarf of Wonder, a reporter entering a town and getting sucked into the mystery of a murder hut, an engineer hesitantly using her technology to make you weapons, and more as Ben and Trevor play Click Pitch!

More Click Pitch antics as Ben and Trevor bring you a game where the final hit of a combo is always explosive, a four player competitive game with hide and seek mechanics and a gauntlet inspired multiplayer game with severe consequences for under estimating how many monsters you will kill.

Satan is a wizard who has lost his wand, Charlie has run the Wonka factory into the ground, aliens have come to earth and got it VERY wrong, a postman is using unconventional tools to increase their efficiency, and a pencil is alive and drawing with its butt. Don't miss this thrilling episode of Bit Storm!

Investigate a murder of an AI Actor, play as Lucio escaping from Overwatch and Talon agents after he was framed for the murder of Doomfist, playing paintball in a wax museum, and relax while you arrest citizens for smiling and spreading joy. All these games and more exist in audio form in this episode of Bit Storm.

Raising the dead to solve crimes, building houses out of sponges, deducing clues in the 80s, jumping and kicking with your bionic hip, mapping a procedural coastline - all this and more as Ben and Trevor party like it's 2019.

In our second 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, Dinosaurs eating pizza while wearing Nikes, Spiderman mixing music and skateboarding, and a Bit Storm feature heavily. Trev and Ben finish the episode by pitching their own GOTY games.

Sam from the Hungry Gamers joins Ben and Trevor and together they click their way to a horrific holiday season! Daddy's cocaine mistake, an open world Santa simulator, a sub delivering letters to Santa during WW2, a rogue-like side scrolling beat 'em up, and more!

Ben and Trevor continue to reimagine old DOS games as new, and then proceed to play some more Ramped Up Click Pitch. Games include Magic Pockets, Star Control, a game where you play as a Cauliflower who has joined a pirate crew, a Saved by the Bell game with a difference and a game where Hulk is the smart one and Bruce Banner has a lower IQ.

A narrative heavy episode with a soldier working through her PTSD via scrapbook, a wanna-be jester finding out he is heir to the throne, a bad-ass buff wizard performing field medicine, vampire cats, plus Ben & Trevor re-imagine some games from their childhood: Thexder and Little Big Adventure

Ben and Trevor attempt to reimagine some old DOS games as current day titles, before jumping back into some Ramped Up Click Pitch. Games discussed included programming robots to pick nectarines and not humans, competitive carpeting and a Sliding Doors inspired adventure game. Reimagined games included Commander Keen, Rocket Jockey, Magic Carpet and Quarantine.

A solemn horseback ride across country, trouble at the NSD (National Sandman Division), a merry band of teens standing up for the downtrodden, a free-running scientist-dodging race for the Nobel Prize, banking in the world of the undead, and more as Ben and Trevor play Click Pitch this week!

The first episode of a new era of Bit Storm is upon you... and we're doing the same stuff as before. In ramped up click pitch this week Ben and Trevor discuss the ethics of aerosolising vaccines, the greatest new superhero who happens to need a wheelchair, Grimace gets a new backstory and people are turned in zombies by a pheromone.