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Ben and Trevor riff on some more movies, coming up with ideas such as:

a thriller set in the desert of New Mexico starring Peter Dinklage;

a man thinks he's a cartoon;

discovering the secret behind the new household robot;

and more!

Trev has been playing a lot of Amanda the Adventurer, and even roped Ben into playing. Saying that this episode is a deep dive into an Amanda the Adventurer style creepy media game. Set in the 1980's, Ben and Trev discuss the many ways a text adventure could be a completely immersive experience.

From movies come video games! Ben and Trevor take random movie titles and descriptions and riff on some game ideas such as:

A point and click adventure where you are stuck with a fairly dumb ghost;

A romantic story about becoming an assassin;

A tri-dimensional story told via different mediums;

and more!

Ben and Trev once again delve into turning regular old movies into terrible mashup movie tie-ins. The games discussed were:

• Investigate the many murders on the interstellar Ark ship while reconnecting with your estranged son.
• Experience 3 stories set in a restaurant with different styles of gameplay
• Investigate the murder of your brother as a substitute teacher.

Ben and Trevor continue their spooky theme with some more scary movie prompts! They come up with games such as:

a visual novel about controlling the emotions inside the head of an obsessive eSports fanatic;

a game with a PS2 aesthetic about a tidal wave of blob fish;

and more!

It's the Spooky Season once again and Ben and Trevor take some non horror movies and turn them into some spooky horror games. The games discussed included:

• An assassin trying to protect his target from a serial killer after a luxury cruise liner was shipwrecked.
• A daily commute gradually turns spooky over multiple days.

Ben and Trevor take some random movies and riff on them until they become video games! This time they come up with games such as:

play as the bumbling bartender companion to super spy Jane Bond;

wander through the wasteland as a mercenary who says Yes to everything;

discover a mystery laid out by a psychic;

and more!

Ben and Trev once again braved the wild crowds at PAX and recorded a podcast, high above the handheld and jackbox areas of PAX. They discuss games that should really belong at PAX had they ever been made. The games discussed this year are:

• A generational colony ship arrives at a planet that has already been colonised many years before thanks to evolved technology
• A lazy river trek turns dangerous on the trip back
• A sentient battery must ensure it can stay charged through an adventure.

Ben and Trevor were kindly invited to PAUCKS, the Dark Web focused game expo as part of Melbourne International Games Week, and they took a look at a bunch of games!

Just to mention a few:

Super Sexy Cricket Nitro

Tiger Woods Gnome Dancers

Royal Hammer of Fury

and more!

Ben and Trev once again utilise random movies to come up with movie tie in games, that either don't tie in, or tie in around as loose as many of the 90's SNES era games do at least. The games discussed were:

• Protect cattle from from Dracula's
• Navigate the exciting world of stand up comedy as two teenage girls in a Life is Strange esque adventure
• Investigate the recent spate of wealthy billionaires donating all their money to charity... oh and the murder that also occurred.