Bit Storm

Ben and Trevor take some deep dives this week, exploring games where you might:

Explore the world looking for mystical SCP like artifacts for use by your evil company

Decipher the timeline of a summer at camp after you find a mysterious phone in the woods

Play a demon hunter ridding a small English town of monsters in a Hades inspired roguelike

And more!

Ben and Trevor carelessly muck around with the lockdown rules they have previously used, producing games like:

• Spearhead the vampire plot to take over the world.
• Make your way through a chocolate factory after the tour leader tragically passes away
• Reset your way through a roguelike.
• Investigate a serial killer and produce a podcast.

Trevor and Ben chain themselves down again in another lockdown episode, where this week's constraints give them:

a game where Snow White's dwarves ride woodland creatures into battle;

a building clearing roguelike set in a sector of a dystopic futuristic city;

a bumbling hippie and his sea lion friend solving mysteries on an oil rig;

a space convict finds himself on a mysteriously terraformed Mars;

a hidden heir finds herself in the big city for the first time;

and more!

Ben and Trevor return to lockdown and discuss some video game ideas, such as:

• Discover gods by following the evidence and yeet them into space
• Tend the bar in a virtual reality strip club, but don't trust Basil
• Play as a vampire who just so happens to work in Accounting
• Rogue like involving local governments.

Ben and Trevor apply the lessons learned from their podcast punch-up with Alex Krause, and the three of them blast forth some video game ideas, such as:

• A detective/factory game where you are building guns and solving murders
• serving up coffee to otherworldly creatures
• an Overcooked style micro-management game set in a school
• discover an undercurrent of conspiracy on social platform Jacebook
• fishing invades every popular sporting (or otherwise) competition
• and more!

Check out Alex's podcast over at http://bigtallboys.com or https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/big-tall-boys-1211360!

With lockdown 6.0 taking over Melbourne, Ben and Trevor limit the main character in their game designs to a 2x2 metre square area.

• Ensure the Feng Shui in your elevator apartment matches the energies on all the floors
• Brace for space and battle it out in a trash compactor
• Take your clients as far away as possible from their intended destination.
• Long haul trucking in space.

Puppets and centaurs and demons, oh my!

Join Ben and Trevor as they randomly generate some fun adventure games this week, including a man selling his soul for a beer, a human chosen to be the ceremonial prophet of an alien race, a modern day coliseum where you can sell action figures of your top fighters, and an imagined sequel to the classic film Labyrinth where Bowie's Jareth is missing and there is a new Goblin Queen!

In our second lockdown special where we constrain our games to take place in a restricted physical space, we once again manage to go deep on an interesting concept, this time working in a radio station in the 80s. Before we get there though, we also find an engineer attempting to gain control over a rampaging robot from his apartment, and a bachelorette party going awry in a bar.

In a locked down Bit Storm special episode, Ben and Trevor discuss games with the theme of being in a single location.

• An adventure game about a guy out of sync with a BBQ
• An AI driven conversational game that is controlled by a microphone
• An autopsy simulation, that dips into sci-fi.

• Absorbent paper towel boot camp
• Jean Claude Van Damme tracks down his stolen kidney in a movie tie in
• Run around town performing tasks as a PA (a Parkour Assistant) to a celebrity
• Move up the corporate ladder based on Mount Olympus

All these games and more are discussed by Ben and Trev this week.