Stay ConnectedA 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.
Reviews galore this week as Ben and Trevor reflect on some new games they've played this week, including:
Revenge of the Spatula;
Grimy Mountain Climber Wars;
Scooby Doo and the Burger From Hell;
College Karate Chronicles;
and more!
Ben and Trev continue in their series of game reviews with more undiscovered gems such as:
Review, reviews, reviews! Trevor and Ben drawl the dark web and dive into Steam's dumpster to find some obscure games to review for you, including:
Orbital Mummy Patrol,
Everybody Loves the Blood Munchers,
Cloud Impact,
Rescue of Heroes,
and more!
Ben and Trev continue to dive deep into reviews of little known games, such as
and many more
It's a review episode! Ben and Trevor take a break from game design to discuss some of the real world games they've been playing lately, such as:
the cooking/survival hybrid game Underwater Kitchen Battle;
the 'modern retro' spiritual successor to Superman 64, Depressing Underwear 64;
the mobile fad of the month, Mech With Friends;
the massively popular entry in a series everyone is talking about, Masters of Spelling: Dystopia;
and more!
Ben and Trev return to the classic formula of Ramped Up Click Pitch, discussing game ideas such as:
Hunting kaiju across the seven seas;
Racing against fellow mad scientists in crazy contraptions;
Cultivate new crops on the back of a giant creature, while exploring strange new lands;
and many more.
Ben and Trevor riff on some randomly generated prompts to come up with game designs - this week the ideas tended towards relationships and small narrative segments, with games like:
Continuing our classic prompts from last week, Ben and Trevor make random game designs from https://what3words.com/ and random movies. Games such as:
A platforming game with Gameshark/Gamegenie mechanics;
Cats playing tennis with beatem up mechanics;
Escape from your AI controlled house;
Alien bounty hunting in a Narnia/Last Starfighter inspired mashup.
and more!
Jumping back into some old games this week, Ben and Trevor make random game designs from https://what3words.com/ and random movies. Games such as:
rival chocolate worshipping churches;
a sequel set after Dorothy has left the Land of Oz, and the political machinations she left behind;
exploring a mysterious maze with a bunch of survivors;
discovering the real world outside the Metaverse;
and more!
On the heels of the 2022 Global Game Jam, Ben and Trevor look at 20 games made by other teams, including a few highlights such as:
Small Time Tennis Tale,
Cantankerous Spelling Blaster,
Queen of the Prison in Space,
Armored Virus,
Sleepy Gopher: The Resistence,
and tons more!
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