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 spooky over multiple days.
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 a psychic;and more!
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 already been colonised many years before thanks to evolved technologyA lazy river trek turns dangerous on the trip backA sentient battery must ensure it can stay charged through an adventure.
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 NitroTiger Woods Gnome DancersRoyal Hammer of Furyand more!
Ben and Trev once again utilise random movies to come up with movie tie in games, that either don't tie in, or tie in around as loose as many of the 90's SNES era games do at least. The games discussed were:Protect cattle from from Dracula'sNavigate the exciting world of stand up comedy as two teenage girls in a Life is Strange esque adventureInvestigate the recent spate of wealthy billionaires donating all their money to charity... oh and the murder that also occurred.
Ben and Trev spend the entire episode on a late night fever dream of Ben's. The game discussed is very Roottrees are dead and Return of the Obra Dinn inspired, but involving super heroes and super villains, and uncovering their secret identities.
With Ben and Trev driving to a relaxing weekend away with friends, they realised they hadn't yet recorded this weeks podcast. They discuss wonderful game ideas while Ben drives the car and Trev sits idly by. The game ideas discussed were:An anxiety enducing fire control game3d space pinball with shipsA Dishonoured / Renfield inspired game where you look after a vampire
Ben and Trevor use the release of Silksong as a prompt to create some classic platformers and metroidvanias, using random movies as a prompt. Discover games such as:Garfield - the MegaDrive/Genesis 90s platformer,The Cable Guy - a metroidvania with inspiration from Metroid Dredd,Ghost World - a game about discovering your ghostly abilities to unlock further levels,and more!
With 2nd Brackey's Game Jam just having finished for 2025, Ben and Trev take the theme of the jam and discuss some game ideas incorporating the theme. The theme for this year was "Risk it for the Biscuit." The games discussed include:A Grant Grover adventure game investigating counterfeit augments.A game set in the Tower of Babylon.A precision platformer with a retry mechanic.
Ben and Trevor are exploring the idea of sharing information in games via websockets, and so this week are taking What 3 Words and combining them with that idea. The result is games such as:playing a platformer where one of you is an impostersolving a mystery in a deduction game where you can only communicate via scrapbookingan asymmetrical multiplayer game where one person control the weatherand more!
Ben once again invited Trev over to discuss games that don't exist in his office. They utilised a random movie generator to prompt the game ideas. The various ideas discussed were:A game where 7 hackers must work together, meanwhile there is a traitor within their midst.Multiple cartoons are birthed by a village in a horror adventure.A third person game where you play multiple characters, one of which turns out to be a serial killer.
Trevor and Ben utilise What Three Words to get random prompts for this week's video games - they come up with ideas such as:Using time travel for minor inconveniences;A wine expert dealing with prohibition;A custom peripheral for patching circuits together;and more!
With GMTK Game Jam just having finished, Ben and Trev try their hand at what games could go with the theme, LOOP. The games discussed were:A desperate housewives inspired time loop game, where you have one day to solve a murder in a suburban cul-de-sac... oh and you are a fish.Handle the network traffic of the SandmanAnswer questions and make your way up through the pantheon of the gods, in a bureaucratic simulator.
Ben and Trevor use movie titles and descriptions as prompts to come up with video game ideas, such as:a golf game slash romance visual novel;a spy thriller starring Popeye;hunting home invaders with fire;and more!
Ben and Trev are back at it again with their new weird random word generator. The results are of course super random and are unlike any game that does or could exist. The games discussed were:A worm typing an article for a newspaperA tuff (sic) golem guarding a volcano godAn adventure set through time on a planet with an unusual calendar system.
Ben and Trevor get together in person to take some Clicky Pitchy words and turn them into video games, such as:a detective who has trouble hearing certain wordsa village stuck in a time loopa kangaroo based rage gameand more!
Trev and Ben get serious this week, as the new random word generator brings more serious prompts. So serious in fact that they can't be added together anymore. The serious games they discussed were:An adventure game with global consequences if the young campers don't make it through the weekAn adventure game set over a single night where boy band members must make it through the night without being cancelledA scientist utilizes the strange electrical properties of the ornithological creatures on his island in a puzzle game.
Ben and Trevor continue with their new, slightly janky random word generator and play some Click Pitchy, using prompts to come up with game designs such as:the journey of a tongue through a world of tastes;an adventure game where you try to live up to the amazing acts of your ancestors;a world where only DC power exists;and more!
A new era of the podcast has arrived! Trev has been furiously working on a new random word generator for the podcast and it's ready... and a bit "pitchy". Ben and Trev try it out and get some weird words for their first attempt. The games discussed were:An Inside Out inspired conscience gameA devil and angel inspired conscience gameA music business tycoon game with storylets added for funA game where you must stop your character from hearing the number 69
Ben and Trevor riff off a dream, then grab some prompts from What 3 Words and invent some games, such as:A holy implement disguised as an every day utensil;piracy on the gaseous methane sea of another planet;the alien base that lives under the Great Artesian Basin;and more!