Bit Storm

Originally planned for release as episode 351, Ben and Trevor finally get this episode released as it was stuck on Trev's new PC that went in for repairs. In this pre PAX episode, they discuss game ideas centered around the Vampire Survivors / Horde Shooter genre.

• A horde shooter where all your weapons are powered from extension cords.
• A VR horde shooter based around hand poses and ring slots for weapons.
• A paintball horde shooter based on the TV series Community.

This week on Bit Storm, Ben and Trevor play some good old Click Pitch, taking random words and turning them into games such as:

a PS1 inspired escape room game with a raunchy intro;

a game where you voyage to cross the edges of a flat Earth;

a deck builder where you are taking your carnival from town to town;

and more!

Ben and Trev are joined by the always wonderful Ryan Betson. They all sat above the theatre entrances at PAX 2023 and had a chat about some video games that don't exist. The games they discussed include:

• Two rival editions of a media empire game, one starring a Goose and one starring a Swan.
• A boss has to visit all the parties in a high rise building while dodging a touchy workmate.
• A rogue like burglary game.

Trevor and Ben riff on some Ramped Up Click Pitch, taking random phrases and turning them into games such as:

An on-sea adventure set around the hairy island nations of B'athtuub;

A world where you need to get high to get high;

Join the crew that lives in and maintains city-sized golems made from rusted metal;

and more!

With Trevor feeling under the weather again, Ben and Trevor play another one of those mysterious tapes from Big Flip Studios. This time they are hiring a new game designer and they've made some minor changes to their office, in the form of an escape room.

Ben and Trevor play some Ramped Up Click Pitch, rocking out some game ideas such as:

a poignant meditative game about restoring an old car after returning to your homeland;

a frustrating two player co-op game all about balance;

a loot clicker set in a school secretly run by a necromancer;

and more!

Ben and Trevor once again play Classic Click Pitch and Ben brings a game pitch to discuss. The game discussed include

• An Around the World in 80 days inspired puzzle game
• An Infamous inspired cyberpunk hero game
• A vampire farming simulator.

Recording again after a long break, Ben and Trevor are back with some good old classic Click Pitch, in which they improvise game worlds such as:

two tea-drinking caveman toys searching the city for their old owner;

the microcosmic world of a pub pool table;

a platformer where you play as Hermes Conrad from Futurama, limboing your way to freedom;

and more!

Ben and Trev must have accidently made a deal with the devil, as they have finally found the tracks for episode 300, just in time for PAX 2023. Live from the Audio Technica booth on the show floor at PAX, they welcome the Inconsolables for a few rounds of classic click pitch. Games include.

• A haunted brothel management game
• The Wiggles star in their own alternate reality game, with a dark twist
• Play as the animals escaping another biblical scale flood.

In the final buffered episode before Ben is back from Canada, Ben and Trevor do some deep video game world building with ideas such as:

a parallel universe where gummy is a fundamental particle;

somebody finds God's omnipresent suitcase;

measuring ingredients using household items;

a Return of the Obra Dinn inspired game where you find out who gave you conjunctivitis;

and more!