Bit Storm

Ben and Trevor click the night away and invent a gel based multiplayer squad shooter with Minecraft building mechanics, an alien raising simulator as metaphor for raising a human child, a Moonlighting sequel which reveals an old nemesis, plus they fight off boars to gain access to the fountain of youth and much more!

Click Pitch

Noisiness Synonym

South Semi-Final

Emptying Counter-Attack

Fondness Triple

Axe Sensationalism

Boar Fountain

Moonlighting Baffled

Ben and Trevor are joined by Jacob Janerka this week, creator of the wonderfully funny Paradigm! In recognition of the success of his point and click adventure, as well as the fortuitous timing of Adventure Jam 2017, we decided to do our Adventure Game Design Done Quick segment, which we haven't done since episode 2! We each pitched a few ideas for small adventure games, and then spent the hour working through the story and puzzles. Keep your limbs inside the podcast at all times, it's quite a trip!

Jacob's Links:

Paradigm on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/600370/Paradigm/

Paradigm on the web: http://www.paradigmadventure.com/

Paradigm on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Paradigmgame/

Jacob on Twitter: https://twitter.com/paradigmgame

Vegetables abound this week as Ben and Trevor are joined by Brendan White from fellow AGPN podcast The Hungry Gamers. We imagine a world where root vegetables are made sentient and fight their leafy above ground foes, a chalky stegosaurus tracking down fare evaders and solving a mystery, a Transformers heist game, a grisly 19th century murder mystery starring Willem Dafoe and using the Death Stranding technology, and we re-imagine The Last Of Us as a new entry into the Universal Monsters canon.

Click Pitch

Vegetation Hangover Wringer

Root Celery Snarl

Forgetful Cutting Emissary

Robbery Battery Airplane

Outcast Dinosaur Fare

Disintegration Designer Nutmeg

Rolling Raven Adornment

Reimagined: The Last Of Us 2

Alone again, Trevor and Ben get a little bit silly and invent a game with analogue breathing controls, a bachelor party planning simulator, a school-based stealth game set in the 80s, and took ideas for movie tie-ins from AGPN resulting in a new Scarface game with goblins, a horror game based (very loosely) on Night Shift, and finally a good Stargate SG-1 game.

Click Pitch

Constitution Blowing

Stagger Spending

Attach Lover

Paging Approval

Movie Tie-ins

Debbie Does Dallas

Scarface

Birdman

Stargate SG-1

Night Shift

La La Land

With the help of Daniel Mason from The S.O.A.P podcast, this week Ben and Trevor turned random words into an action adventure played in a world run by a giant totalitarian octopus, a saliva based collectible figurine game, a Lord of the Rings themed game played over the course of months with Pokemon Snap inspirations, turned The Wizard of Oz into a giant world-spanning RPG, and reimagined Cyberpunk: 2077 as a personal story experienced through the interface of an old school BBS.

Ben and Trevor are joined by John Kane from Gritfish for a very adventure game heavy episode - we brainstorm a Thimbleweed Park inspired murder mystery set at a comic book convention in an alternate universe where Garfield is the ultimate in pop culture, a beehive simulator controlled entirely through dance, a game where you control a chicken and her egg simultaneously, an 80s themed RPG set in a world divided into musical genres narrated by Weird Al Yankovic, and we reimagine Gritfish's Mallow Drops as a punishing platformer where you play a suicidal s'more to be.

Click Pitch:

Men Highlighting Chain

Crossing Hatching Fond

Worse Imperialist Owner

Beehive Signing Explanation

Silversmith Scheduling Agony

Sailor Detective Exhibition

Synthesis Seal Harp

Reimagined: Mallow Drops by Gritfish Games

John's Links

John on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gritfish

Gritfish on the web: http://www.gritfish.net/

Mallow Drops on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/381340

Mallow Drops on the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id969845330

Killing Time at Lightspeed on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/380660

This week Laura Voss, Creative Director at Harmonious Games joined Ben and Trevor in the Click Pitch hot seat. We ruminate on waffle decorum and pancake physics, spy on drunks hiding in futuristic speakeasies, handle divorce cases between giants and dwarves, build a technologically advanced mole colony to efficiently steal carrots, and consider a Fresh Prince of Bel Air platforming game. Plus we throw a few ideas around in an attempt to reimagine Harmonious Games' latest release Putty Pals, resulting in a VR action extravaganza.

This week on Bit Storm (new name!): Kamina Vincent, producer at Mountains, helped us get political to make an Animal Farm inspired farm management game, a PolyBridge-esque restaurant automation game, we won the heart and minds of the populace through well placed advertising and propaganda in Crosswalk Battlefield, and we did a remarkably accurate reimagining of What Remains of Edith Finch by Giant Sparrow. Plus a seasonally appropriate Easter adventure that ends in a bunny bloodbath. Who says games aren't art?

Giselle Rosman of Hipster Whale, the Melbourne IGDA and the Global Game Jam is our guest this week, helping Ben and Trevor turn random prompts into games where babies play basketball, dogs have to pee their own landmarks, a wandering chaperone moves from school to school making sure there's no funny business happening, and a ghost has to alter its environment to make sure everybody finds their soulmate. Finally, while reimagining Thimbleweed Park by Terrible Toybox we bring the time-honoured adventure game staple of pixel hunting into the VR space - I can hear Ron Gilbert's facepalm from here.

Co-host of The Inconsolables Andrew Natoli joins Trevor and Ben for a spicy good time! Game pitches this week include the new Hogwarts adventures of Fiddler and Louse, the tribulations of raising a baby mech alongside your human children, the son of God as a limo driver, and we reimagine Atlus's Persona 5 as a clone filled action brawler mixed with a bit of Banjo-Kazooie. Oh, plus sentient spice jars riding T-bone steaks, because that's how we roll.