Bit Storm

A Get Smart themed puzzle game, an adventure / role playing game based on Lord of the Flies, a 90's style platformer based on the IT miniseries, and be the newest bartender at Purgatory, the premiere afterlife bar. Ben and Trevor delve into these games and more on this episode of Bit Storm.

Ben and Trevor play a bit of Mary Sue and insert themselves into a video game this week, along with games where you play as a man sized spider revealing corporate horrors, control a surgeon giving a tutorial, try to survive a futuristic city covered in toxic mist, teach Dora the Explorer ethics, and more!

Travel through time to discover the secret truth of the Titanic, run away from a giant slug, enjoy a relaxing family vacation where you need to tend to everyone else's needs, and finally become a digital vigilante and either help or hinder the police. Ben and Trevor created these game designs and more this week.

After stumbling on a new way to play Click Pitch, Ben and Trevor write a game about the mystery satanic keys that give The BeeGees their power, a Source Code style repeating mystery, a far future X-Com game, and more! o4VOrd0zKqGoLWXa7pK0

A casual multiplayer game where you and your friends control a farm together, a photographic puzzle game, a rogue like escape game set in a tower and talk to cars to solve mysteries as the Car Whisperer.

Atebit's own Jono Pech of Comedy Rewind and Puttin' In Work joins Ben and Trevor this week, resulting in a Fallout style RPG where you plan an ant exploring a new world, a rogue-like bobsledding management game, a medieval doctor working in a VR apothecary, and more!

The sinister truth behind the popularity of the Ask Jeeves search engine, stretchy heroes join forces in a VR adventure, John Pope and his religious following, and more!

A VR glass blowing simulation, Soylent Pigs, adventures with warp juice, the evil secret behind Big Cashew, we coin the term "Secruel", and more!

Ben and Trevor have returned to Click Pitch as the random word generator is working again. Games discussed included such gems as: a VR Coffee simulator, VR match three in the real world, a narative story set in multiple time periods of a circus and a Goblins-esque game about luck.

Breaking free from the random word generator, Ben and Trevor take on movies and TV shows this week, resulting in an adventure game prequel to Beetlejuice, an in-depth competitive version of Australian Ninja Warrior, and a VR version of Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity.

Things ramp up a bit more this week as Ben and Trevor discuss more crazy game ideas like, a VR Jurassic Park game that retells the original story with the previously unknown 3rd grandchild, a world where corporate logos come to life, a fantasy text adventure about a substitute teacher and a world in a 2d shape suddenly gets the ability to see in 3 dimensions.

Some more ramped up Click Pitch produces a buddy story about a man and the ghost in his throat, an asymmetrical multiplayer challenge inspired by Spy Party, a co-operative shooter where you all play Bishop from Aliens, a conspiracy story about the shape of washcloths, and more!

Returning to regular Click Pitch this week, Ben and Trevor discuss the following game ideas: an RTS set on someone's face, the post apocalyptic Mushroom Kingdom, the story of Keith the Space God and an archery themed golf game.

Under the pressure of self-imposed limitations, Ben and Trevor invent a series of rhythm and/or first person shooter games. Games include a world where aliens have turned all roads into roundabouts, John Wick style rhythmic murder, a Wikileak of all the gates to hell, and more!

Trev and Ben limit themselves to Platforming and Puzzles in this weeks Click Pitch. Games include Canabalt 2 but this time you control the buildings, picnic tower defence, the story of Eeyore fighting Nazi's and finally the long awaited sequel to Portal set in Australia.

To celebrate Adventure Jam 2019 (#advjam2019) Ben and Trevor made nothing but adventure games this week, and came up with a Good Omens inspired story of a modern day messiah, a VR game about sitting at the kid's table at a super hero's dinner party, the battle between two rival gyms, a game where Tintin is shipwrecked AGAIN, and more!

The epic story of the humble tip office clerk's redemption, digital druids saving deer in a Big Game Hunter style game, building a house while performing ballerina moves in a Tony Hawk Pro Skater way and saving the world in the newest big budget co-op game set in the Avengers universe. Ben and Trevor are back for some more Click Pitch!

A VR wedding photographer game, carpenters vs bricklayers, senior citizens fighting zombies, and more in this episode of Bit Storm! Disclaimer: Ben & Trevor struggled with technical difficulties so this episode is a little shorter than usual and a bit choppy, sorry about that!

Ben and Trevor dive into the real story behind the Purple People Eater song by Sheb Wooley, as well as many other crazy game ideas, such as: the teenage genius who figured out cold fusion, Mother Nature's favorite forest, the tragic tale of a lifeguard and a trip to 1980's outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne.

Ben and Trevor are back with a VR game set entirely through the literal frame of a front door, an alien world where sunlight gives you bullet time, papercraft surgery, celebrity fruit, a monstrous version of The Bachelor, and more!