Bit Storm

For our 1 year anniversary episode, Ben and Trevor do the exact same thing they do every week: come up with game ideas! This week we discover a world where everybody is genetically predisposed to arson, join an android on their year long journey through space, try desperately to find the right adapter for our new game console, learn sign language in stressful situations, produce a sitcom and re-imagine the VR game Lone Echo.

Stock up on candy because Halloween has come early! Ben and Trevor play some Click Pitch, and spew out some games where you need to escape captivity in a world where your spit can instantly rust metal, pull off a Halloween heist in a world where candy is money and beat your friends in a competitive bellhop game.

Alex Wynnter from Dice Hard (amongst other things) joins Ben and Trevor on Bit Storm this week! We invent a loincloth based superhero, a vampire who just wants to paint landscapes, a thief with an orchid calling card, a secret society of mutants within a university, a Commandos-esque tactical game involving pigs, and a violent robot version of lacrosse. Plus we reimagine the 7 Wonders series of board games as an emotion bending action adventure game that.

Trevor drags himself out of bed to help Ben play some Click Pitch. Things get a little weird with games featuring a jungle court with a baboon for a judge, a murder mystery at a Woodstock like concert and an owl hunting for snacks.

Anthony Murphy from the Semi-Cast joins Ben this week as Trevor chucks a sickie, missing out on a planetary scale visual novel, a policewoman skydiving to make arrests, XCOM 2: War Of The Chosen reimagined as a totally not-blasphemous real time strategy, another VR game about yelling, and transit building game set in the world of wizardry. By the way, what type of flowers do you buy for a zoo wedding?

Things are getting stormy as Ben and Trevor play some more Click Pitch and come up with ideas like playing the "Bond girl" role in a spy thriller and a Papers Please style of game where the protagonist is a parole officer.

They also talk about their new Facebook group http://facebook.com/groups/bitstorm but seem to only talk about their own suggestions for the weekly listener Click Pitch.

Michael and Tegan from RESET join Ben and Trevor in designing a new toys to life franchise revolving around body pillows, a raunchy game of Tetris, a solar system spanning Tupperware conspiracy, a zombie knitting game, a side scrolling nerds vs jocks beat-em-up, a very asymmetrical game of basketball and the existential crisis of Robert Cattington.

Click Pitch:

Forger Remodeling Submarine Centering

Civilisation Honeycomb Badger

Warehouse Interrupt Unorthodox

Constipation Ceremony Vaulting

Gasoline Dynamite Buff

Headway Exhale Gritty

Gnawed Credit Knitted

Snuggle Pearl Beyond

Crouch Assured Upshot

Lacerating Ski Bobcat

Exile Wallet Collusion Airtight

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Get your popcorn ready and switch off your mobile phones, cos Ben and Trevor are going to the movies. They warm up with some Click Pitch and then dive into some movie tie in games. The games include the children of Robin Hood and Little John on opposite sides of the law, a VR game based within the Anchorman universe and a creaky game about living as a house.

Ben is back in the Bit Storm basement, and he and Trevor jump straight back into some Click Pitch resulting in games about giants cooking humans in the sun, grammar teachers who love it when you are incorrect, a VR computer building challenge with frustrating limitations, selectively breeding sportspeople to up their game, and a presidential VR thumb fiddling simulation. Plus perhaps we'll finally catch that sticker bandit!

Ben and Trevor are back in the saddle, kinda anyway. In the last episode of Bit Drizzle before Ben returns from Canada, they talk about games that don’t exist yet, like a Life Saving simulator, a VR hunting game where you control the animals and a bizarre reality where messages are passed through the body like a Postal service.