Absurd game pitches, built at full speed.
Bit Storm is a comedy game-design show where Ben Slinger and Trevor Scott turn odd prompts into playable-sounding nonsense. The fun comes from watching a ridiculous premise acquire rules, mechanics, settings, and just enough logic to seem dangerous.
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Bit Storm is a comedy game-design podcast built around the pleasure of watching an idea get out of hand. Ben Slinger and Trevor Scott take prompts from random word generators, game jam constraints, imagined game titles, and other loose starting points, then try to turn them into games with mechanics, loops, settings, and endings. The pace is quick. The shape is improvised. A joke may begin as a dinosaur hospital, then become a time-loop surgery game involving pterodactyl medivacs and a strangely serious question about why the player would sacrifice anything. Another riff turns a neighborhood dispute into a cul-de-sac construction strategy game, complete with house upgrades, sabotage, and save data that might carry into a sequel. The show’s rhythm is the point. A silly phrase appears, both speakers grab it, and the conversation keeps adding systems until the nonsense has rules. That gives Bit Storm a specific flavor among comedy shows. It is not only banter, and it is not only game criticism. It is collaborative design play, where the practical questions are often as funny as the premise. How should light work in a one-bit horror game? What does dithering do to a flashlight scene? Could a comedy club become a competitive story game? What happens if a fake dark-web fighting game includes concession stands, tournament timing, and absurd special moves? The answers are rarely tidy, but they are usually energetic. The show also has a casual running texture: deck sessions, lounge sessions, game jam talk, updates on projects, and recurring mentions of music and small games connected to the speakers’ own creative work. That lived-in quality helps the chaos feel friendly rather than random. Bit Storm is best for people who like hearing creative decisions happen out loud. It rewards tolerance for tangents, abrupt pivots, crude jokes, and ideas that mutate faster than anyone can summarize them. Beneath the irreverence, there is real interest in how games communicate, constrain, surprise, and fail. The joke keeps moving, but the design brain stays switched on.
Made for: For comedy fans, indie game makers, game jam regulars, and anyone who enjoys hearing strange ideas become surprisingly detailed systems. It especially fits listeners who like loose banter with actual design thinking underneath.
What sets it apart: Bit Storm stands out by treating ridiculous premises as if they deserve working mechanics. The comedy comes from escalation, but the show keeps grounding each bit in controls, loops, constraints, visuals, and player behavior.
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.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ben Slinger and Trevor Scott turn improvised premises into game mechanics, finding comedy in the serious work of making absurd ideas playable.
Bit Storm turns random words into design problems and lets Ben Slinger and Trevor Scott worry each idea into something playable. Their recurring Click Pitch setup gives the conversation a sturdy engine: a prompt produces a premise, then the pair test its controls, failure states…
A cul-de-sac becomes a game of house upgrades and neighbor sabotage before your brain can object.
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A seamless-loop game jam idea turns a surgeon's heart, a portal, and a paradox into the punchline.
The episode uses Comfy Jam's spring theme and seamless-loop limit to shape a dinosaur-hospital game where pterodactyls work as medivac pilots and baby deliverers.
Random prompts become a comedy-club pitch, a few game-design detours, and a glimpse at a VR project.
Bitstorm's lounge session turns random words into a low-stakes game-design exercise, with Ben Slinger and Trevor Scott clicking for prompts and talking their way toward a premise.
A random-word prompt turns into a lively cul-de-sac strategy pitch about houses, upgrades, save files, and consensus.
BitStorm’s too-cold-to-sit-outside recording gives the conversation an easy, slightly restless looseness, but the pull is the way Unanimous Guarantee becomes a workable game idea in real time.
A one-bit jam turns dithering, flashlight limits, and off-screen noise into a lively horror-game design chat.
Bitstorm frames a one-bit game jam as a casual design-room comedy, with the two hosts splitting off to make separate ideas before pitching them back to each other.
A mirror sequel becomes a snack-fueled game-design riff with a secret song that may or may not make the game.
Bit Storm turns a Deck Sessions chat into a loose game-design jam about a mirror, another universe, and the worrying absence of familiar icy treats.
A loose game-design jam finds a petty way to weaponize multiplayer crowds.
BitStorm turns a handful of loose prompts into a multiplayer platformer built around anonymous players making each other miserable through ordinary choices.
A dark-web game review turns into a funny, slippery tour of golf carts, raw Mickey hands, beach volleyball, and Dirtman's toll.
Bitstorm's Dark Steam Awards segment follows Trevor Scott and Ben Slinger through a dark-web games tour that keeps slipping into a loose double act about what they were supposed to be reviewing.
Tiny debates, treated with heroic seriousness.
Two game design podcasters improvise a game design concept based on the word 'fortune' while recording in a car.
Ben Slinger and Trevor Scott brainstorm game ideas using random words from What Three Words for a potential Brackeys Jam project.
Trevor Scott and Ben Slinger review bizarre games from the 'dark steam awards' on the dark web.
Comedians Trevor Scott and Ben Slinger record a casual, improvised episode on Ben's deck, playing a game where they pitch two-word ideas like 'alcohol monopoly' and 'butt chugging'.
Ben pitches a game idea about a giant creature that takes a month to defeat in a shared online campaign.
Two guys who know nothing about gaming randomly select old movies to brainstorm video game ideas.
Two hosts discuss their recent game design projects and positive feedback from game jams.
Bit Storm uses the Comfy Jam’s spring theme and seamless-loop rule to pitch three game concepts, starting with “Mystery” and “Circulation.” Ben Slinger and Travis Scott turn that first prompt into a dinosaur hospital with a T-Rex cardiothoracic surgeon, Peggy Steggy the stegosaurus nurse, and a heart in a cooler with no paperwork.
Bit Storm’s "Literal Spy Party" opens with a space-lighthouse pitch built around nebula fog, tethered movement, and a possible Eldritch Horror.
Bit Storm's The Cul-de-saga turns a click-pitch round into HOA power games, a glacier-damaged planet, and a century-old witch bargain.
Bit Storm's one-bit jam discussion is built around a hard screen limit: only two colours can appear at once.
Two comedians improvise game design ideas using random words, starting with 'mosquito' and 'diagram'.
Trevor Scott and Ben Slinger use Clip Pitch on Bit Storm to build two game concepts from random words, starting with "distortion" and "excavation." They also revisit Blind Reflection, a point-and-click sequel idea set around a mirror into another universe where scientists first make contact and the other side does not yet know about them.