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Bit Storm
by 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.
Episodes
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Dark Steam Diving Again
Ben and Trev dive back into the Dark Steam, the dark web's answer to Steam, to talk about what they've been playing in the lead-up to Dark PAX. This week: Robotic Pogo Paintball, a 16v16 shooter where the only way to get around is bouncing; Pixelated Insect Baseball, where the flies get…
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Random Brain Generator
Ben and Trev go off-prompt this week, ditching the usual random word generators to dive into some unprompted game designs and deep-dive nostalgia. This week: a narrative-driven "weekend away" visual novel where a group of friends uncovers secrets and vulnerabilities while navigating the fallout…
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Get Scrooged
Ben and Trev are back on Random Movies, hurling DVDs at each other and turning the pairs into game designs. This week: a narrative bowling game set on league night in a too-perfect 1950s town, where you pick which conversations to eavesdrop on between frames; a whistleblower conspiracy about a...
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T9 Zork Phone
Ben and Trevor tackle the "Trust No One" theme for an upcoming game jam, using a random word generator to spark several high-concept designs: a puzzle game involving blocks of ice and a suspicious AI assistant, where the player must determine if the instructions provided to navigate the room are...
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Holy Water off a Ducks Back
Ben and Trev break out Random Movies, where they each pull a couple of random DVDs off the pile and mash the pairs into game designs. This week: a first person body swap where a dad and his son trade places in the middle of a life or death mission, and dying only makes you younger; a plane...
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Centaur Gymnast
Ben and Trev reflect on their success in the GMTK game jam, where their narrative-driven game about counting sheep and falling asleep placed in the top 10% for enjoyment and the top 1% for audio. This week, they dive into some wild new concepts: a heavy, atmospheric journey where a character must...
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Press 'D' to Dog
Ben and Trev dig out Fucked Up Click Pitch for the first time in a good while, where a cursed word generator hands them one baffling word each to build a game around. This week: a goat who is thrilled to be sacrificed with a bread knife at a mountain summit; a periodic table of vegetables,...
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First Person Frisbee
Ben and Trev are back in the lounge for another round of Ramped Up Click Pitch, where they use a random word generator to spark high-concept game designs. This week's creations include: a narrative-driven experience set in the afterlife, where you play as a "failed" cupid who must navigate a...
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Tiny Timato
Ben and Trev dust off Ramped Up Click Pitch, where they throw random adjective-and-noun pairs at each other and forge game designs from the results. This week's games include: a strategy game where you build defensive ramparts and place your cannons while seeing a few seconds into the future, the...
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Corpse Dragging Mechanics
Ben and Trevor put their creative gears into overdrive by using a random movie generator to spark new game design concepts. The duo explores a variety of high-concept premises, including: Swiss Army Man: A survival adventure where your only "tool" is a decaying corpse that provides various…
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Enhance... Enhance
Ben and Trev are back in the lounge for another round of Click Pitch and attempt to forge them into game designs. This week's creations include: an extraction shooter where you must navigate a family through a series of distractions like timeshare presentations; a high-stakes investigation into…
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Edging: The Video Game
Ben and Trevor play some game jam sized Click Pitch, coming up with designs such as: having to go to a lot of trouble to play the game you actually want to play a game of social cues that might have a surprise at the end having to fire a powerful Homelander-esque superhero and more!
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Random Food Tangent
Ben and Trevor take a significant detour from their usual routine this week, embarking on an unusually large and lengthy exploration of culinary possibilities. They spend a considerable amount of time debating the merits of "fusion" foods like meatloaf Swiss rolls with relish, various...
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The Secret of the Storks
Ben and Trev are back in the lounge, where they play Click Pitch to generate some fresh game designs. The games discussed this week include: An underwater exploration game featuring a society of "Snorks" living beneath the surface; A political campaign simulator involving complex social...
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Apple Cops Are Bananas
Once more Ben and Trev discuss games that don't exist in Ben's lounge room. The games discussed this week were: Apple based games with weird warioware/QWOP styled controls A match 3 game with a cozy story about restoring your Grandpa's old tools A puzzle game where you need to work out passwords.
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The Tower Emerges
Ben and Trevor jump immediately into some Click Pitch, and after a few ideas find a really fun nugget to chew on for a while. Games such as: keeping a sausage safe in various environments; an RTS/tower defense game involving growing your units and towers; a mystery game set in the heyday of film...
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Octogenarian Tai Chi Pigeons
Ben and Trev once again set themsevles up in Ben's lounge, drinking some whiskey and discuss games that should exist but don't. The game discussed included: Industrial waste that turn 4 ordinary pigeons into something special An untitled goose game styled game set in a hotel where you are...
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Type D Negative
Ben and Trevor riff on some game designs in Click Pitch this week, such as: a civilization finding out the truth about their diminutive nature; the scientific cure for vampirism; what's really happening when you get money from an ATM; and more!
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Leonarda DaVinca
Ben and Trev are still smashing out these lounge sessions, and discussing plenty of stupid games. The games discussed this week include: Two point hospital but with hotdogs and other circus/themepark related foods An insect adventure game set in a hoarders house A game that exposes the real…
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Rock Up for the Seed Ship
The Lounge Sessions continue as Ben and Trevor play Click Pitch once more, coming up with game designs such as: exploring a new world of alien creatures and mapping their hunting patterns; a beautifully rendered cozy Rube Goldberg machine building game; a world where the stars have been replaced...
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A Complimentary Continental Breakfast at the Continental
Ben and Trev dive deep into very few games this week, but it does see the return of an old segment from the first season. The games discussed include: An educational mathematics game set in a cafe A John Wick game where the majority of the development went into the highly detailed Continental…
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Double Oh Smellum
Ben and Trevor play a game they've never played before: Click Pitch, where they take two random words and make video games from them! This week: a party game about secretly recording your friends; a flatulent spy; the aftermath of a rapture-like event; and more!
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...And Then The Eye Opens
Ben and Trev get spooky with eldritch based horror, as they go through a previous game jam theme. The games discussed include: A character jumping through time Multiple characters experiencing an alien invasion of epic proportions Investigating the death of a friend.
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Cardio Jurassic Surgeon
Ben and Trevor use the limitation of the recent Comfy Jam as inspiration and come up with games involving seamless loops, such as: a security guard doing their rounds; a time loop in Dinosaur Hospital; the struggle of an addict and their constant interventions; and more!
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Literal Spy Party
Ben and Trev return once again to Ben's house, this time back into the lounge sessions as it's no longer summer. They wax lyrical on a few different game designs including: Investigate your spy friends at a weekend away. Investigate the different lobbyists your political boss is entertaining Try...
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The Cul-de-saga
Ben and Trevor move out of the cold for some Click Pitch, riffing on game ideas such as: a game and its sequel set in a court with an overbearing HOA an extraction shooter set in a world where north of the equator is a giant glacier a deductive game where you figure out a witch's curse and more!
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1 Bit Jam
Ben and Trevor take a break from discussing games that will never exist, to games that will. They are taking part in a 1 Bit Jam where they have 2 colours to play with and that's it. The games they discuss were: A 2d strategic shooter where you shoot your own fighters at enemies A 3d horror game...
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Stuff Going Into Stuff (Romantically)
Ben and Trevor continue their deck sessions, playing some classic Click Pitch and coming up with game designs such as: A game where you are an alien explorer cataloguing Earth; A teacher roguelike with in-depth student relationship mechanics; A high tech weapon alters physics in localised areas;...
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We Don't Need Lungs Anymore
Ben and Trevor wax lyrical about so many topics that aren't game design in this episode. However they did manage to talk about some game ideas so here they are: A long awaited sequel to Blind Reflection, the game from the second ever episode of the pod A retrofuturistic world where the learnings...
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President Houseplant
Ben and Trevor try to come up with ideas for the next batch of indie gems, including: a band finding inspiration in a haunted house; playing as the superintendent of a block of magical apartments; accidentally catfishing on dating apps; and more!
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Banana Corp
Ben and Trev continue the deck sessions and riff on some indie games such as: Investigating a mystery at Banana Corp as the CEO... A telepathic banana Work as an health inspector for a group of shops Carve away marble in a massively multiplayer game
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Hu-human-man
The 2026 Deck Sessions continue as Ben and Trevor spend a lot of time discussing an 80s inspired game where you are taping songs off the radio, then go completely off the rails about reverse chicken football and a guy called Johnny Two-Fingers.
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Teleporting Security Agent (Global Game Jam 2026 part 2)
With GGJ having just completed for 2026, Ben and Trev use the theme "Mask" and generate a bunch of games that they could have made over the weekend: A teleporting TSA agent pursues a passenger through the terminal A parent and child must look after the driads of the forest. A prisoner must escape…
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The Wizzjizz of Oz (Global Game Jam 2026 part 1)
Ben and Trevor revisit last year's Global Game Jam theme ahead of this year's jam: Bubble. With this in mind, they come up with games such as: a detective game where you play Glinda in Oz, long after the events of Dorothy; a tense deduction game set in a locked down apartment building; a nuclear...
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Dr. Tooth von Filling
This episode sees the long awaited return of dentists as villains, as Ben and Trev once again grace Ben's deck and record a summer nights podcast. The games discussed included. A first person soccer goal keeping game with wacky goal additions A first person paperboy game set in a world with…
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Offline Venusian Blinds
Ben and Trevor continue their 'On the Deck' series with another session of Ramped Up Click Pitch, riffing on game ideas such as: a 3D heist game where you play a group of scrappy resistance fighters in a cross between Hitman and Commandos; a top-down RPG about a journalist dealing with a…
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Grankini
Ben and Trev bring you the first episode of 2026, live from Ben's wonderful side deck. While they enjoy a beverage they muse on some interesting game ideas such as: Handling Brand Recognition for a drink company Dealing with absent forrest neighbours Apply sunscreen to your Gran
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The World is Your Casserole (Dark Steam GOTY 2025)
As has been tradition for a few years now, Ben and Trevor have trawled the depths of Dark Steam on the Dark Web to find their favourite underground games of the year, including: a VR improv theatre game involving a plunger; a game about building your castle on wheels; a hive-mind bringing in new...
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Least Amount of Goats (Christmas 2025 Episode)
Ben and Trevor brewak from tradition this year and record the Christmas episode remotely, due to illness. The Christmas themed games of course include the regular list of characters, such as Santa, Canta and Mr Claus, but also feature such ideas as: Create a safari park, while trying to find the...
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Bat Flap Penalty
Ben and Trevor go back to What 3 Words for some prompts, riffing on ideas such as: a DNA sequencing house builder; working behind the counter at a cyberpunk body modification facility; winning a bodybuilding contest that has been in decline for years; and more!
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Crack Open a Booze Shark
Ben had the brilliant idea of hopping on the streamer wagon this week, so Ben and Trev came up with ideas that streamers would hopefully love to play. The games discussed included a bunch of friendslop, but also some banger such as: A handyman fixing random things in a haunted mansion A…
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Crystalline False Flag
Ben and Trevor riff on some more movies, coming up with ideas such as: a thriller set in the desert of New Mexico starring Peter Dinklage; a man thinks he's a cartoon; discovering the secret behind the new household robot; and more!
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Basement-ception
Trev has been playing a lot of Amanda the Adventurer, and even roped Ben into playing. Saying that this episode is a deep dive into an Amanda the Adventurer style creepy media game. Set in the 1980's, Ben and Trev discuss the many ways a text adventure could be a completely immersive experience.
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Onomatapiphany
From movies come video games! Ben and Trevor take random movie titles and descriptions and riff on some game ideas such as: A point and click adventure where you are stuck with a fairly dumb ghost; A romantic story about becoming an assassin; A tri-dimensional story told via different mediums…
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Double Substitute
Ben and Trev once again delve into turning regular old movies into terrible mashup movie tie-ins. The games discussed were: Investigate the many murders on the interstellar Ark ship while reconnecting with your estranged son. Experience 3 stories set in a restaurant with different styles of...
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Blobnami
Ben and Trevor continue their spooky theme with some more scary movie prompts! They come up with games such as: a visual novel about controlling the emotions inside the head of an obsessive eSports fanatic; a game with a PS2 aesthetic about a tidal wave of blob fish; and more!
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Ker-Simon
It's the Spooky Season once again and Ben and Trevor take some non horror movies and turn them into some spooky horror games. The games discussed included: An assassin trying to protect his target from a serial killer after a luxury cruise liner was shipwrecked. A daily commute gradually turns...
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Djinn Diesel
Ben and Trevor take some random movies and riff on them until they become video games! This time they come up with games such as: play as the bumbling bartender companion to super spy Jane Bond; wander through the wasteland as a mercenary who says Yes to everything; discover a mystery laid out by…
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Live from PAX 2025
Ben and Trev once again braved the wild crowds at PAX and recorded a podcast, high above the handheld and jackbox areas of PAX. They discuss games that should really belong at PAX had they ever been made. The games discussed this year are: A generational colony ship arrives at a planet that has...
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Rip The Gnome (PAUCKS 2025 Special)
Ben and Trevor were kindly invited to PAUCKS, the Dark Web focused game expo as part of Melbourne International Games Week, and they took a look at a bunch of games! Just to mention a few: Super Sexy Cricket Nitro Tiger Woods Gnome Dancers Royal Hammer of Fury and more!
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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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Ben Slinger and Trevor Scott
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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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