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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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076: The Fourth Rule of Gremlins

Bit Storm ·

2018/05/27

An alien spider with an expansive skill tree, a rogue-like Gremlins game set in the Old West, a food fight turned lethal, a bullfighter reincarnated as a bull, plus find out the real story behind Gargamel and the Smurfs - all of this and more in this week's Bit Storm!

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075: The Horny Hornet

Bit Storm ·

2018/05/20

A Dark Souls style game set in a Buffy-esque universe where the "Chosen one" is Scatman John. A suspenseful game set in an abandoned theme park where you play as the Mascot who never left when the park closed down. A vengeful Hornet who is chasing the spider that stole its wings, armed only with a stinger and springs. Ben and Trevor laugh their way through another crazy round of Click Pitch on this episode of Bit Storm.

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58:35

074: Get Me A Weasley

Bit Storm ·

2018/05/13

Down in the dumps? We prescribe this episode of Bit Storm, where Ben and Trevor come up with video game tie-ins for the Bill & Ted franchise as well as creating the MVGU (Marvel Video Game Universe), along with a game about a dolphin on the police force, a kindergarten rife with politics and backstabbing, a VR drainage based puzzle game and a cross between X-Com and Stardew Valley. Warning: side effects may include laughter, groans, and an existential disappointment that these games will never

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58:37

073: Lactose Intolerant

Bit Storm ·

2018/05/06

A guy who survived the extinction of mankind while demoing a fallout shelter! A No One Lives Forever inspired spy romp against a villian hell bent on destroying the UK with Mad Cow Disease! Vegans and people with Lactose intolerance team up against a deadly common threat! These are just some of the games that Ben and Trevor muddled though in Click Pitch this week. dQff4V8jUQ6LFND2aQjJ

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01:08:21

072: Winner Winner Human Dinner (featuring Barney...

Bit Storm ·

2018/04/29

Trevor and Ben are joined by Barney Cumming of Powerhoof this week, and the resulting stampede leaves behind a game where you play a recluse solving a mystery via garbage and crosswords, a HVAC engineer who is sensibly doing their job, we explore the fine art of observatory equipment requisition, and we reinvent Powerhoof's Regular Human Basketball into a Space Jam-esque adventure! Find Barney online: Website: https://www.powerhoof.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/powerhoof Facebook:

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01:18:29

071: Orphanazi

Bit Storm ·

2018/04/22

Where is that piano music coming from? What if Hansel and Gretel wanted to live with the witch? How long could you survive on a distant planet where the day is deadlier than the night? Ben and Trevor attempt to answer all these questions while playing a rousing game of Click Pitch. All on this episode of Bit Storm.

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01:05:53

070: The Prime Nephew

Bit Storm ·

2018/04/15

What would Space Quest 7 be like if Roger Wilco was turned into pure electricity? What if the next ridiculous teenage trend had something to do with a hydraulic press? What's the best way for a gopher to steal balls on a golf course? And what do you do if you find out you have a particularly special nephew? Ben and Trevor answer all these questions on this week's episode of Bit Storm!

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52:53

069: Noice!

Bit Storm ·

2018/04/08

Things are getting steamy in episode 69! Noice! Games this week include alien dictators, alternate universes with word searches instead of crosswords, theatre lighting in VR and a SWAT style game with a twist.

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01:07:03

068: Ask Jeeves

Bit Storm ·

2018/04/01

It's 2002, and you find a mysterious floppy disk in a secret government file. What you find on it will shock you! Ben and Trevor Click Pitch their way to this game and more, including a reverse rogue-like where you are rehabilitating a dungeon, a VR puzzle adventure where you rearrange memories, procedurally generated high school cliques, and a narrative game set in the 1930's where you must ration out your only 6 bullets.

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53:20

067: Fungi Cold Medina

Bit Storm ·

2018/03/25

Ben and Trevor return for an in-depth discussion of 4 made up games. Games include human sized pigs and pig sized humans set in an RPG, a rogue-like adventure beneath the waves and we discover the secret truth of how humanity evolved on Earth.

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58:37

066: Clock Fluid

Bit Storm ·

2018/03/20

A management game where you are tasked with building the best pub crawl route, an extreme couponing game with gameplay from both sides of the register, a world where the very concept of time relies on a mysterious fluid, and the much needed movie tie-ins for Cube, Key & Peele, Speed 3 and the entire oeuvre of Stephen King. All this and more from the minds of Ben and Trevor this week!

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065: Weird Al is our Spirit Animal

Bit Storm ·

2018/03/11

Ben and Trevor cough their way through another episode (don't worry, we cut them all out) and sneeze up a world where there is no gravity due to planet eating worms, get Saturday Night feverish with a hitman who is stuck in the 70s, find love in a tennis player who is making a comeback, somehow manage to make a game out of the TV series Bottom, and are inspired multiple times by Weird Al Yankovic resulting in cameos that span decades.

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59:59

064: Mirror Universe

Bit Storm ·

2018/03/04

Things get a little weird as Ben and Trevor delve into some more Click Pitch. Games include robot cows, neanderthal social networking and an attack that occurs within the mirror universe.

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52:34

063: 300 Rats in a Human Suit

Bit Storm ·

2018/02/25

Ben and Trevor return for another thrilling game of Click Pitch. Games include a group of 300 rats trying to pass themselves as human, managing a local voting centre and finally attempting to defraud hunters into believing bigfoot and other cryptids exist.

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56:59

062: Kidnapping is not cool

Bit Storm ·

2018/02/18

Trevor and Ben return for another fun filled episode of Bit Storm. They design an open world game in which you play a flea on a dogs body, Ben tries to kidnap a kid and teach them the art of thieving and finally they redesign the Nintendo Labo to be a Harry Potter like potions lab.

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59:36

061: The Wrong Joey

Bit Storm ·

2018/02/11

This week, Ben and Trevor will be there for you as they create an adventure game crossing over classic sitcoms, a VR game set in a phone booth during an alien invasion, a game about the friendship between a gestating alien fetus and its human companion (a la The Shape Of Water), a puzzle game about covering up your nudie bits, and more!

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59:49

060: Lasertron (Featuring Callan Davison of Game...

Bit Storm ·

2018/02/04

Ben and Trev welcome Callan Davison of the Game Train Podcast to the Bit Cave to play some Click Pitch. Game ideas include living batteries that thrive on love, a zookeeper gets a taste of his own medicine and a PUBG styled murder mystery game on a Star Trek starship. Disclaimer: Sorry about the dodgy audio

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18:49

Boom (tm) - Global Game Jam 2018

Bit Storm ·

2018/01/31

Ben and Trevor do a post mortem of their Global Game Jam experience! Hear about their experiences jamming in Melbourne, the brainstorming and development process, then play their final game! Play the game here: https://globalgamejam.org/2018/games/boom-tm Video during development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GzC6CpdLZw

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58:43

059: High Pressure Hairdressing

Bit Storm ·

2018/01/28

In their third and final Global Game Jam themed episode, Ben and Trevor take the theme "The Sound of a Beating Heart" and apply it to all their Click Pitch rounds this week! It results in a blood sucking rhythm game, a toe trimming simulator, a superhero ant, a game where you dispose of bodies for the mafia, a teenager finding their way to the underworld, and more!

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56:07

058: What Do We Do Now?

Bit Storm ·

2018/01/21

In the second of their Global Game Jam themed episodes, Ben and Trevor take the theme 'What Do We Do Now' and use it in every Click Pitch this week! The result is a VR experience of vacuuming up Grandma's ashes, a dung beetle pushing a dung ball around a crowded city and the worst game of "Basketball" ever envisioned.

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