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Host Francesca Amiker sits down with directors Joe and Anthony Russo, producer Angela Russo-Otstot, stars Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, and more to uncover how family was the key to building the emotional core of The Electric State . From the Russos’ own experiences growing up in a large Italian family to the film’s central relationship between Michelle and her robot brother Kid Cosmo, family relationships both on and off of the set were the key to bringing The Electric State to life. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts . State Secrets: Inside the Making of The Electric State is produced by Netflix and Treefort Media.…

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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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Cheruby Renner 31:32

14 days ago31:32

31:32

Ben and Trevor, Click Pitch, jam 'em together and you get some fun improv game designs, such as: a Bulletstorm-esque first person brawler where your fists are made of diamond; a storylet driven sci-fi game set in the lead-up to an intergalactic war; a non-violent Hitman style game where you are investigating your environment to determine the best love matches; and more!…

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Deductive Reasoning 45:22

21 days ago45:22

45:22

Ben and Trev have been playing a ton of deductive games, such as Return of the Obra Dinn, The Roottrees are Dead and a new free game called Type Help. As such they try their hand at designing 3 deductive games with different mechanics. The games discussed include: Collating evidence and piecing together old crimes after the digitisation was corrupted Tracing paths and connections people took through a state/county. Analysing your neighbours through garbage.…

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The Silly Bus 35:43

28 days ago35:43

35:43

Ben and Trevor play some Click Pitch, for better or worse! They come up with games such as: an Apogee style platformer revolving around smashing papaya; figuring out alien body language in a first contact situation; figuring out the strange place your village has been built; and more!

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AGDDQR: Volcanic Breeze 39:55

5 weeks ago39:55

39:55

Ben and Trev have been making a fair few adventure games recently (check out bslinger.itch.io for the games) so they thought it was about time that they return to the Adventure Game Design Done Quick format, but as this show is now a 30ish minute format they had to change it to QuickeR (Hence the extra R). They design a game set on an island and discuss an article that Ron Gilbert wrote many many years ago. Ron Gilbert - Why Adventure Games Suck…

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Kevin Got Buff 39:43

6 weeks ago39:43

39:43

After a brief pitch from Ben, he and Trevor move on to some movie prompts to create games such as: A team of stage magicians pull of heists in a world where actual magic exists Serial killers try to blend in in 1980's Miami A deductathon where you are researching people with super powers to help them avoid the fascist government and more!…

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Polterkitty 32:57

7 weeks ago32:57

32:57

Bored of regular click pitch, Ben and Trev delve back into random movies to find the next hit video game tie in. Movies discussed included: Fool's Gold Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties Hellraiser: Bloodlines Fant4stic

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Endgame Group Text 32:47

8 weeks ago32:47

32:47

Ben and Trevor jump headfirst into Ramped Up Click Pitch, taking random phrases and pitching video games such as: an animal husbandry game about chicken bombs an Obra Dinn/Roottrees style game about an attorney working for a university a game about memories and how perception changes over time an astronaut travels at light speed and misses his life back home for a stupid reason and more!…

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Bubble me a Beer 33:00

9 weeks ago33:00

33:00

In our annual pre Global Game Jam episode Ben and Trev discuss different games that match the theme, "Bubble". The games include Warp bubbles A boy in a sensory deprivation bubble Bubble based technology Bubble jet printers

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2 Idol 2 Bodyswap 35:30

10 weeks ago35:30

35:30

This week on Bit Storm, Ben and Trevor take some random movies and re-imagine them as video games, such as: Fireproof as an action disaster movie where you play a firefighter staving off the end of the world; Rebecca as a post-apocalyptic noir mystery about an elite member of society and his new wife; Freaky as a body-swap movie between a pregnant women and her dead-beat boyfriend; and more!…

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You Are Here 34:21

11 weeks ago34:21

34:21

Ben and Trev tried to do something different, but it didn't work, so they just recorded a standard episode. The games discussed were. A game where you play the middle manager of a space elevator A game set in the south pole at a secret facility A game set in a morning tv show, heavily based off of Get Krackin.…

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Slutty Topiary 35:28

12 weeks ago35:28

35:28

Ben and Trevor make their way into the new year with some ramped up Click Pitch, inventing video games such as: showing up un-costumed to a costume party and having to steal your costume the drug-fueled Batman fantasy of an octogenarian a time-travel fueled weight loss solution and more!

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Judge Worm Presiding 39:15

13 weeks ago39:15

39:15

Hello loyal listeners and those new to this podcast, Ben and Trev would like to welcome you to the latest episode where they talk about some games that don't exist, such as: A cosy game where you must tend to a house made of flesh An adventure game where you play 3 witches that are banished from using magic. A legal game set in the night garden court, where Judge Worm (the fourth of his name) presides.…

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Nabe Gewell's Dark Steam 36:36

14 weeks ago36:36

36:36

Trevor and Ben go through their Dark Steam games of the year, including: the laundry focused Dirty Paintball; the spooky reality bending Dead Dream; chilling out with Drug Induced Lawn Mowing; and more!

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Vampta Claus 37:21

15 weeks ago37:21

37:21

It's Christmas time and normally Trev and Ben get together to discuss games at Ben's house. however they couldn't make it work, so they did it remotely like every other episode. They discuss Christmas themed games, such as: Santa Claus is turned into a vampire by one of the elves, in a Heavy Rain inspired adventure Eeyore is turning against everyone in the 100 acre woods and submitting them to Saw like torture devices Explore friends and relationships in three time periods at christmas.…

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Fizzy Facelifting Cream 34:47

16 weeks ago34:47