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PODCAST

Bit Storm

Ben Slinger and Trevor Scott

A comedy game design podcast by two guys who know nothing about comedy nor game design. Join Trevor Scott and Ben Slinger as they take prompts from random word generators, movies, game titles and more and turn them into occasionally hilarious but always interesting game designs.

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All Episodes

01:01:26

096: Thick Water

Bit Storm ·

2018/10/14

A zany mastermind with a plan to make her company the only source of water, a gem thief who transforms into a beast in the light, a very flexible cobra, a friendly mountain, and more as Ben and Trevor play some ramped up Click Pitch this week.

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57:26

095: Surprise Shaman

Bit Storm ·

2018/10/07

Ben and Trevor play ramped up Click Pitch again this week and come up with some of their crazier ideas to date. A psychedelic pirate adventure, a game set in the abandoned amusement park in Chernobyl before the accident and a fantasy hospital where you play an anaesthetist with a mallet as your main anaesthetic tool.

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56:01

094: Muddle P.I.

Bit Storm ·

2018/09/30

Ben and Trevor Click Pitch their way to a narrative noir game about a missing pot plant, a frantic multiplayer game set at a classy ball, a video game sequel to the Rush Hour trilogy, a Zelda/Back To The Future mashup, a National Treasure style adventure game, and more!

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59:51

093: Underpants and Butts (Featuring Andrew Freeth...

Bit Storm ·

2018/09/23

Ben and Trevor welcome Andrew Freeth to the podcast and they come up with a number of interesting games including, Giants flinging humans around a battlefield, a typing game where you write a kickstarter press release and an erotic novel at the same time, a dark souls-esque romp through history and we reimagine what Brief Battles would be if Ben and Trevor had anything to do with it.

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01:01:18

092: Drop Bears and Hoop Snakes

Bit Storm ·

2018/09/16

This week: choose the upgrade path of your vicious Australian marsupial, become the keeper of the World Clock, team up with other scientists and unravel a conspiracy, help the spirit that has possessed your non-dominant hand, and see what happens when Mrs Clause has her moment and takes her rightful place as head of the North Pole.

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01:05:12

091: The Incompetent Threshold

Bit Storm ·

2018/09/09

Ben and Trevor ramp Click Pitch up a notch and come up with a variety of awesome games. A multiplayer shooter with civilian npcs, a western Scooby Doo mystery, unusual laser pointers and a game based on a rejected song from Kurodust. * Includes the only surviving recording of the song "The 1000". *

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01:04:06

090: Danger Zone

Bit Storm ·

2018/09/02

Back to Click Pitch this week as Ben and Trevor dream up a multiplayer puppeteering game, the challenges of being a flight attendant, a flight combat game set in the aftermath of a modern US civil war, an RPG set in the world of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, a tactics game setting ballroom dancers against tap dancers, and a heartwarming story of a couple running a general store.

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01:03:14

089: Three Course Mystery

Bit Storm ·

2018/08/26

This episode we try out an old segment once again, Adventure Game Design Done Quick (AGDDQ), where we try to write the story and puzzles for a small point and click adventure game within the hour. The result is a narrative game that takes place over the three courses that are served to the captain's table.

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55:54

088: Infinity Band

Bit Storm ·

2018/08/19

Ben and Trevor go back to the Harry Potter well in a game played within the margins of a Potions spell book, get serious with a game about a man down on his luck and on the streets, do some deep world building in which a technology can tell you how long you have left to live, reveal what really happened to the Hindenburg, and more!

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57:35

087: Game Paste

Bit Storm ·

2018/08/12

A VR puzzle game inspired by the Fools Errand, a momentum based game in which you must stop a lodge from crashing into an orphanage, a calm casual driving experience game with a secret locked in the trunk. These are just some of the crazy games that Ben and Trevor discussed this week.

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01:05:04

086: Minecraft (but for spiders)

Bit Storm ·

2018/08/05

What is the gestational period of a common bridge troll? Can you help your future self save the planet? What happens to a typesetter's legacy when his son leaves for the war? Have we ever tackled so many serious questions in one episode? Listen to find out!

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51:06

085: Fire All The Guns

Bit Storm ·

2018/07/30

A VR game that warps time further than Superhot! A narrative game where you play a lawyer representing the creator of the hoverboard! A game where you must present a home you know nothing about to prospective home buyers. All these games and more on this episode of Bit Storm.

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59:00

084: Tomb Raver (featuring Meg and Anthony from...

Bit Storm ·

2018/07/22

Ben and Trevor are joined by Megan Summers and Anthony Wood from Screwtape Studios this week, and they come up with a smoke filled metroidvania, limb buying robots, a soul fishing contest between God and the Devil, a grammar obsessed teenager solving mysteries, a thief stealing only the best food, plus we subvert fairy tale tropes as we re-imagine Screwtape's game Damsel. Screwtape's Social Media: Website Damsel Twitter Steam Early Access

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01:02:31

083: Metaphorical Cavity Search

Bit Storm ·

2018/07/15

Just relax, this week the games include border searches in a fantasy land, cheating in a 4 player co-op, maintaining a boiler in Antarctica and a competitive co-op cow rustling game. Ben and Trevor laugh their way through another action packed episode of Bit Storm.

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58:57

082: Workplace Tag

Bit Storm ·

2018/07/08

Delivering script pages via parkour, playing a high stakes game of Tag in the office, Spy Party-esque multiplayer in an exam room, the long sordid tale of a single chapstick, cartoon physics as gameplay mechanics, and the infinite path of an actor's life - all this and more in Bit Storm this week!

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01:04:29

081: Purge the Calendar

Bit Storm ·

2018/07/01

A gritty reimagining of Bubble Bobble, Lemmings in VR, the world's reaction to a misprinted calendar and a time travelling scientist. Just a small selection of the games that we covered this week on Bit Storm.

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01:08:11

080: Left 4 Bread

Bit Storm ·

2018/06/24

Ben and Trevor deep dive into a couple of heavy world building games this episode, including a Black Mirror-esque world where Augmented Reality is the norm and a mystery told through flashbacks during a home invasion. They also explore a co-op survival game using Left 4 Dead's director technology, a wacky VR game of bow analysis, an FTL/X-Com hybrid, a tycoon game dealing with family relationships, and more!

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57:30

079: The Nun Direction

Bit Storm ·

2018/06/17

Two bakers in 18th century France competively baking cakes. The take home version of Bit Storm's Click Pitch(TM). A galaxy contained within a bubble. The many habits of Doctor Livingstone. An educational game about LGBTQIA+. All these games and more on this weeks episode of Bit Storm.

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59:22

078: Judi Dench: Train Eater

Bit Storm ·

2018/06/10

Forget all the other gaming websites, we have your E3 2018 exclusives right here! Coming this summer to a game store near you, the latest FPS blockbuster starring the most badass octogenarian: JUDI DENCH: TRAIN EATER. Also look out for the preview trailers for third person brawler "Gnomes: Guardians of the Garden", hacking and investigation game "When Self Driving Cars Attack", VR extravaganza "Buffet Breakfast Breakdown", the multiplayer streaming VR hit "The Killing Circle" and the thrilling

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59:02

077: Feudal England

Bit Storm ·

2018/06/03

A narrative game based on a boxer that bets on his own fights, a used car salesman simulator, the secret origin of language on earth, a telepathic alien baby breaks out of area 52 and a family fighting to survive in Feudal England. All these ideas were somehow turned into games in this episode of Bit Storm.

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