Bit Storm

Cthulhu-esque goings on at the Bed, Bath and Beyond, the secret of the man in the moon, agents of H.I.V.E. and a classist system of Gravediggers are actively protecting London from a zombie outbreak. Trev and Ben laugh their way through yet another wild edition of What Three Words.

Traverse five generations of your family tree to discover the source of an ongoing feud, a point and click adventure that spreads your consciousness across three days, go bar hopping during a literal hens night, hunt for the last of the fossil fuels for one final joyride, and more!

Collect animal DNA in a non-lethal way, investigate a rural farmhouse that is being fumigated, play as a spider escaping the farmhouse, figure out which movie patrons are really freeloading ghosts and can Dracula resist the urge to feed while running a daycare.

This week Ben and Trevor blast out some improvised game designs, including a game where you are pulled into a whacky dream world, a space based boot camp simulator, an old guy who just wants to read the paper, a dialogue based game set entirely in a jacuzzi, and they stick it to WB by violating the patent on their Nemesis system for a game about a junior reporter on the crime beat.

Rocket powered Penny Farthings, cats exploring a theatre, civilisations viewing comets as god and the secret truth behind the Wiggles. Ben and Trevor spin some of their most absurd ideas to date in this episode of Bit Storm.

With a new random word generating system in hand, Ben and Trevor create brand new game designs, such as:A set of robot grifters from the ghetto trying to pass in high societyA Descent inspired game about destroying volcanoes created by an alien menaceA surprising twist to a walking simulatorA wedding planning simulatorThe Neverending Story from the perspective of the Rock BiterAnd more!

Each year Ben and Trevor participate in the Global Game Jam, in preparation for this years jam, they use old GGJ and Ludram Dare prompts to discuss the following game ideas. Commuting in a tiny world, managing a hotel with horror elements, helping a cat to escape and saving a space ship from losing all the oxygen.

Want some game designs? This week, we have: a debt collector in a high-powered capitalistic future, a private detective in a noir comic book style super villainous mystery, a spy targeting diplomats with long range microwaves, a man finds himself trapped in a dollhouse helping a child, and we explore the day in the life of an independent music store.

A renovation game show with a twist, a world with no concept of mathematics, investigate the destruction in the wake of a platform game and discover the secret behind the pet axe. Ben and Trevor discuss these games and more...

Bit Storm holds its first annual Game Of Last Year Awards, taking the names of real GOTY nominees and winners and improvising new and different game ideas from them. Listen in to find out about Animal Crossing: New Horizons (a multi-planet version of Frogger), Hades (an automation game with souls as your power source), Among Us (a Hangover style story about an alien trapped on Earth), and plenty more!

Tracking down nomadic tribes escaping library fines, selling magnetic trinkets to neighbours, investigate the mystery of the timekeeper and a VR boxing rhythm game. These are just some of the ideas that Ben and Trevor discuss in this weeks episode.

Fill your bus with capable people to survive the zombie hordes, choose the PowerPoint slides to save the company (or destroy the world), explore a world where you can hack the parameters of people's brains, discover the mystery of the cursed family bassinet, and more!

A Fantastic Four co-op VR multiplayer game, a Darksiders-esque game with characters from cereal boxes, a narrative-based survival adventure in Antarctica and an investigative adventure discovering the truth behind the recent monoliths - Ben and Trev discuss these games and more on this week's episode of Bit Storm.

The boys are joined by Gianni from Pixel Sift this week, and together they jump into some Click Pitch resulting in some incredible ideas! A space opera revolving around a Dyson Sphere cocoon, a JRPG based on The Matrix, an ARG phone game where you might just meet a celebrity, dueling electrosynth artists falling in love, and more!

A Truman Show-esque world under a house, a virtual reality experience based on Color Out Of Space, follow the trail of destruction with help of an alien artifact and the long dreaded return to the Starch Wars saga. All this and more on this weeks episode.

We revisit the idea of asymmetrical gameplay between the living and the dead, there is an alien conspiracy in the works, discover a multi-generation super hero origin story, and come up with movie tie-ins for Jurassic Galaxy and The Lost Boys.

Time taxis, killer pizza making robots, Billy's encounter with a witch and psychological vandalism in a cyberpunk world. Ben and Trev delve into these game ideas and more on this episode of Bit Storm.

Ben and Trevor are joined by their good friend Michael Jones as they explore the game worlds of a bee-keeping simulator with a ranting boss, a fringe scientist whose experiments are turning against them, a multi-layered meta-MMORPG, and a deep dive into a multiplayer horror game set on a train.

An Among Us styled hide and seek game in a mansion, 15 minutes of fame in a game, a "The Witness"-esque game set on a farm, the dead will rise in a co-op shooter and more...

Endlessly run through the creation of the universe, grow your circus to be the one true big top, have fun with a Snow White/Star Trek mashup, discover the spooky secrets behind an unreleased game, and more this week on Bit Storm!