Bit Storm

A new season begins, and Trevor and Ben take random movie prompts and turn them into improvised video game ideas, including:

• a spy thriller take on My Dinner With Andre
• a tense sci-fi survival game set next to volcanic vents in the deepest ocean
• a mystery revolving around a friend lost in a haunted theme park ride
• and more!

Well, it's come time to finally end Bit Storm... Season 1. Ben and Trev have decided that 400 episodes is the perfect length for a season of a podcast, so this is the final episode of season 1. They discuss games that still don't exist at length like:

• A timeloop adventure set between the hours of 9am and 3pm at an office
• A dystopian adventure where the main character realises they are not like everyone else
• A cosy game where you unpack a hoard.

Ben and Trevor get down with some Click Pitch, improvising video game ideas such as:

• a game played on your phone where you are trying to find your missing friend Jared;
• a tea-bag factory simulator;
• playing as an eccentric architect trying to build the best tower for his community;
• and more!

Ben and Trev try their hand at video in this audio medium. So there's plenty of references to a non existant video version as Trevor was too lazy to actually put the video up. They talked about some cool games though, like:

• A management game set in a resort
• A point and click adventure game about a facehugger trying to find a face to hug.
• A clothes manufacturing game where the only fabric available is velvet.

This week Ben and Trevor use the theme from GMTK Jam 2024 "Built To Scale" in all of their Click Pitches and come up with improvised video games such as:

• a Katamari style kids shape spinner
• a super-spy finding themself in a tiny city
• a co-op game where the players balance food as they deliver it to a giant
• and more!

***Trigger Warning: Suicide***

Ben and Trev delve deep into Pixar's Cars universe and realise the real truth behind the Cars that Disney doesn't want you to know. Also they talk about games that don't exist:

• Interior designing in the Cars universe
• Takedowns such as those in Burnout, but in the Cars universe
• An RPG with medicinal magic powers.

Ben and Trevor hit the course for a round of improvised video game development, this week seeing how golf mechanics might affect different genres.

Ben invites Trev back over to again record in person. They play classic Click Pitch and discuss some interesting games, such as:

• Serving sausages in space in VR
• Explore conversations through non linear time
• The origin of the laughing clown

Ben and Trevor record in-person this week, Click Pitching their way to game ideas such as:

• a Quantic Dream style game where somebody finds out something terrible about their spouse thanks to their affair
• a horror game set at an abandoned water park in the bright light of day
• another horror game, but closer to home as you deal with bathroom renovations;
• and more!

Ben and Trev return to a prompt game they haven't done in a while, What 3 Words. The games they come up with are interesting to say the least:

• A tower defence game against a singular case worker
• Manage a farmers market set in Kevin Costner's Waterworld
• Use a programming language to defend the world against the incoming world of Mondas.