Bit Storm

Ben and Trevor play some game jam sized Click Pitch, coming up with designs such as:

• having to go to a lot of trouble to play the game you actually want to play
• a game of social cues that might have a surprise at the end
• having to fire a powerful Homelander-esque superhero
• and more!

Ben and Trevor take a significant detour from their usual routine this week, embarking on an unusually large and lengthy exploration of culinary possibilities. They spend a considerable amount of time debating the merits of "fusion" foods like meatloaf Swiss rolls with relish, various international-style burritos (including spaghetti, pizza and HSP varieties), and the precise technical requirements for the perfect piece of toast involving Vegemite and cheese.

Despite the heavy detour into food science, they still manage to play a few rounds of Click Pitch to develop some game designs:

• A tactile investigation into document forgery and provenance
• A competitive county fair game involving the production and judging of prize-winning sausages
• A high-stakes logistics simulation for packing grocery bags under specific environmental conditions
• An investigative game where you must find out why solar systems are being wiped out in a section of the milky way, and we are headed to that spot.

Ben and Trev are back in the lounge, where they play Click Pitch to generate some fresh game designs. The games discussed this week include:

• An underwater exploration game featuring a society of "Snorks" living beneath the surface;
• A political campaign simulator involving complex social interactions and automated systems;
• A narrative-driven legal drama where you play as a juror trying to navigate a conspiracy.

Once more Ben and Trev discuss games that don't exist in Ben's lounge room. The games discussed this week were:

• Apple based games with weird warioware/QWOP styled controls
• A match 3 game with a cozy story about restoring your Grandpa's old tools
• A puzzle game where you need to work out passwords.

Ben and Trevor jump immediately into some Click Pitch, and after a few ideas find a really fun nugget to chew on for a while. Games such as:

keeping a sausage safe in various environments;

an RTS/tower defense game involving growing your units and towers;

a mystery game set in the heyday of film cameras;

a puzzle/automation game where you have to solve inefficiencies in a physically simulated world;

and more!

Ben and Trev once again set themsevles up in Ben's lounge, drinking some whiskey and discuss games that should exist but don't. The game discussed included:

• Industrial waste that turn 4 ordinary pigeons into something special
• An untitled goose game styled game set in a hotel where you are performing various tasks
• Set in a waiting room, the player just does some word searches.

Ben and Trevor riff on some game designs in Click Pitch this week, such as:

a civilization finding out the truth about their diminutive nature;

the scientific cure for vampirism;

what's really happening when you get money from an ATM;

and more!

Ben and Trev are still smashing out these lounge sessions, and discussing plenty of stupid games. The games discussed this week include:

• Two point hospital but with hotdogs and other circus/themepark related foods
• An insect adventure game set in a hoarders house
• A game that exposes the real secret behind who the Mona Lisa is based on

The Lounge Sessions continue as Ben and Trevor play Click Pitch once more, coming up with game designs such as:

exploring a new world of alien creatures and mapping their hunting patterns;

a beautifully rendered cozy Rube Goldberg machine building game;

a world where the stars have been replaced with drones;

the incentives for young men to travel to the stars;

and more!

Ben and Trev dive deep into very few games this week, but it does see the return of an old segment from the first season. The games discussed include:

• An educational mathematics game set in a cafe
• A John Wick game where the majority of the development went into the highly detailed Continental Hotel room simulator.