Episodes

  • 399: Pianist Hero
    Sep 8 2024

    Ben and Trevor get down with some Click Pitch, improvising video game ideas such as:

    • a game played on your phone where you are trying to find your missing friend Jared;
    • a tea-bag factory simulator;
    • playing as an eccentric architect trying to build the best tower for his community;
    • and more!

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    36 mins
  • 398: Larry the Hugger
    Sep 1 2024

    Ben and Trev try their hand at video in this audio medium. So there's plenty of references to a non existant video version as Trevor was too lazy to actually put the video up. They talked about some cool games though, like:

    • A management game set in a resort
    • A point and click adventure game about a facehugger trying to find a face to hug.
    • A clothes manufacturing game where the only fabric available is velvet.

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    37 mins
  • 397: VB Presents: Desert Crawl
    Aug 25 2024

    This week Ben and Trevor use the theme from GMTK Jam 2024 "Built To Scale" in all of their Click Pitches and come up with improvised video games such as:

    • a Katamari style kids shape spinner
    • a super-spy finding themself in a tiny city
    • a co-op game where the players balance food as they deliver it to a giant
    • and more!

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    34 mins
  • 396: Eurek-Car
    Aug 18 2024

    ***Trigger Warning: Suicide***

    Ben and Trev delve deep into Pixar's Cars universe and realise the real truth behind the Cars that Disney doesn't want you to know. Also they talk about games that don't exist:

    • Interior designing in the Cars universe
    • Takedowns such as those in Burnout, but in the Cars universe
    • An RPG with medicinal magic powers.

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    36 mins
  • 395: No Mans Golf
    Aug 11 2024

    Ben and Trevor hit the course for a round of improvised video game development, this week seeing how golf mechanics might affect different genres.

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    36 mins
  • 394: HMS Screwshed
    Aug 4 2024

    Ben invites Trev back over to again record in person. They play classic Click Pitch and discuss some interesting games, such as:

    • Serving sausages in space in VR
    • Explore conversations through non linear time
    • The origin of the laughing clown

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    37 mins
  • 393: Sailing the High ITs
    Jul 28 2024

    Ben and Trevor record in-person this week, Click Pitching their way to game ideas such as:

    • a Quantic Dream style game where somebody finds out something terrible about their spouse thanks to their affair
    • a horror game set at an abandoned water park in the bright light of day
    • another horror game, but closer to home as you deal with bathroom renovations;
    • and more!

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    36 mins
  • 392: The Case Worker is coming...
    Jul 21 2024

    Ben and Trev return to a prompt game they haven't done in a while, What 3 Words. The games they come up with are interesting to say the least:

    • A tower defence game against a singular case worker
    • Manage a farmers market set in Kevin Costner's Waterworld
    • Use a programming language to defend the world against the incoming world of Mondas.

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    34 mins