Bit Storm

Ben and Trevor play a game they've never played before: Click Pitch, where they take two random words and make video games from them! This week:

a party game about secretly recording your friends;

a flatulent spy;

the aftermath of a rapture-like event;

and more!

Ben and Trev get spooky with eldritch based horror, as they go through a previous game jam theme. The games discussed include:

• A character jumping through time
• Multiple characters experiencing an alien invasion of epic proportions
• Investigating the death of a friend.

Ben and Trevor use the limitation of the recent Comfy Jam as inspiration and come up with games involving seamless loops, such as:

a security guard doing their rounds;

a time loop in Dinosaur Hospital;

the struggle of an addict and their constant interventions;

and more!

Ben and Trev return once again to Ben's house, this time back into the lounge sessions as it's no longer summer. They wax lyrical on a few different game designs including:

• Investigate your spy friends at a weekend away.
• Investigate the different lobbyists your political boss is entertaining
• Try not to go insane while tending to a space lighthouse in a nebula.

Ben and Trevor move out of the cold for some Click Pitch, riffing on game ideas such as:

• a game and its sequel set in a court with an overbearing HOA
• an extraction shooter set in a world where north of the equator is a giant glacier
• a deductive game where you figure out a witch's curse
• and more!

Ben and Trevor take a break from discussing games that will never exist, to games that will. They are taking part in a 1 Bit Jam where they have 2 colours to play with and that's it. The games they discuss were:

1. A 2d strategic shooter where you shoot your own fighters at enemies
2. A 3d horror game set in a creepy mansion.

Ben and Trevor continue their deck sessions, playing some classic Click Pitch and coming up with game designs such as:

A game where you are an alien explorer cataloguing Earth;

A teacher roguelike with in-depth student relationship mechanics;

A high tech weapon alters physics in localised areas;

and more!

Ben and Trevor wax lyrical about so many topics that aren't game design in this episode. However they did manage to talk about some game ideas so here they are:

1. A long awaited sequel to Blind Reflection, the game from the second ever episode of the pod
2. A retrofuturistic world where the learnings from the past are forgotten.
3. A game where you and your neighbours are digging tunnels to explore under the neighbourhood.

Ben and Trevor try to come up with ideas for the next batch of indie gems, including:

a band finding inspiration in a haunted house;

playing as the superintendent of a block of magical apartments;

accidentally catfishing on dating apps;

and more!

Ben and Trev continue the deck sessions and riff on some indie games such as:

1. Investigating a mystery at Banana Corp as the CEO... A telepathic banana
2. Work as an health inspector for a group of shops
3. Carve away marble in a massively multiplayer game