Bit Storm
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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 464
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
020: Starch Wars (featuring Brendan White from The Hungry Gamers)
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 …
01:11:03 |
Sun 07 May 2017
019: Banned in Australia
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 …
01:16:27 |
Sun 30 Apr 2017
018: All Hail the Octolord (featuring Daniel Mason from The S.O.A.P)
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 col…
01:04:40 |
Sun 23 Apr 2017
017: Room Full of Garfields (featuring John Kane from Gritfish)
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 …
01:05:02 |
Sun 16 Apr 2017
016: Veronica Fizzlesticks: Wizard Lawyer (featuring Laura Voss from Harmonious Games)
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 sp…
01:11:37 |
Sun 09 Apr 2017
015: Crosswalk Battlefield: Advertising Edition (featuring Kamina Vincent from Mountains)
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,…
00:51:28 |
Sun 02 Apr 2017
014: Baby B-Ball (featuring Giselle Rosman from Hipster Whale)
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 pe…
01:02:43 |
Fri 24 Mar 2017
013: Punch Stuff Until The Magic Happens (featuring Andrew Natoli from The Inconsolables)
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 b…
01:13:11 |
Sun 19 Mar 2017
012: Rex Hunt: The Fisher King (featuring Mitch Loh)
Ben and Trevor are joined this week by Mitch Loh from the Pixel Sift podcast! We find ourselves in some familiar Lame Storming territory with games set at funerals and involving people in mascot suit…
01:00:45 |
Sat 11 Mar 2017
011: Competitive Ornithology (featuring Pete Curulli)
Pete Curulli from the fantastic Game On Australia podcast joins Ben and Trevor this week in a cavalcade of potty humour and Star Wars jokes. We discover the new ARG for Blizzard's next Overwatch char…
01:11:21 |
Sat 04 Mar 2017
010: Miami Noir (featuring Gustav Seymore)
With the help of Gustav Seymore from Lost Goblin, Trevor and Ben take this week's prompts and turn them into management games involving valet parking, high school relationships and sentient hams, as …
00:58:19 |
Sat 18 Feb 2017
009: Waves Waves Waves (featuring Inge Berman)
Game artist Inge Berman from S1T2 surfs into our special Global Game Jam episode, using this year's theme of 'waves' to buoy our imaginations! The result is wet and foamy, as we invent a VR game star…
01:11:50 |
Sat 04 Feb 2017
008: Vince McMahon’s Testify (featuring Justine Colla)
Community lead and co-founder of Alta, Justine Colla, joins us this week to invent games about chatting with anthropomorphic ledges, hypnotizing restaurant patrons to get better tips, and giant wrest…
01:13:42 |
Sat 21 Jan 2017
007: Teen Angst Food Fight (featuring Emre Deniz)
Game designer Emre Deniz joins us this week, and the result was slightly disturbing. Themes of darkness dominated, with flickering candles and the setting sun giving way to the horrors that lie in th…
00:58:57 |
Sat 07 Jan 2017
006: Jiggly Bits (featuring Rhys Smith)
Rhys Smith of Pine Fire Studios joins Trevor and Ben this week and they delve into some Click Pitch where things quickly get hot and bothered. Games about flames, burlesque and bondage are the result…
01:05:08 |
Fri 23 Dec 2016
005: Pizza Delivery Pro (featuring Jack Erskine)
Trevor and Ben welcome Jack Erskine, the 3D Artist & Animator for Siege Sloth Games, to the Lame Cave. Together they play a rousing round of Click Pitch, and talk about Siege Sloth Games upcoming rel…
00:56:54 |
Sat 10 Dec 2016
004.5: Click Pitch Classic #4
Trevor and Ben return for the final installment of Click Pitch Classic. This one comes from episode 16 of Two Sweary Dad's. Check it out here.
Click Pitch Classic
Informality Monogamy
Mail Geometry…
00:30:00 |
Sat 03 Dec 2016
004: The Little and The Big
Trevor and Ben pitch some of their favourite games from their youth as new and improved remakes, then try to come up with some tv and movie tie in games.
Game Remakes
Jill of the Jungle
Cosmo's Cos…
00:52:00 |
Sat 26 Nov 2016
003.5: Click Pitch Classic #3
Trevor and Ben return to the well that is Classic Click Pitch. This time they travel back in time to episode 12 of Two Sweary Dads and check out the episode where Click Pitch was finally named.
Clic…
00:32:10 |
Sat 19 Nov 2016
003: Peter Bred and the Stale Situation
Trevor and Ben have some pre-prepared game ideas that they unleash on each other, before playing another couple of rounds of Click Pitch. Although they do get a little VR heavy... must be that Ben go…
01:01:12 |
Sat 12 Nov 2016
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