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Ben and Trevor use the limitation of the recent Comfy Jam as inspiration and come up with games involving seamless loops, such as: a security guard doing their rounds; a time loop in Dinosaur Hospital; the struggle of an addict and their constant interventions; and more!

Ben and Trev return once again to Ben's house, this time back into the lounge sessions as it's no longer summer. They wax lyrical on a few different game designs including: Investigate your spy friends at a weekend away.Investigate the different lobbyists your political boss is entertainingTry not to go insane while tending to a space lighthouse in a nebula.

Ben and Trevor move out of the cold for some Click Pitch, riffing on game ideas such as: a game and its sequel set in a court with an overbearing HOAan extraction shooter set in a world where north of the equator is a giant glaciera deductive game where you figure out a witch's curseand more!

Ben and Trevor take a break from discussing games that will never exist, to games that will. They are taking part in a 1 Bit Jam where they have 2 colours to play with and that's it. The games they discuss were: A 2d strategic shooter where you shoot your own fighters at enemiesA 3d horror game set in a creepy mansion.

Ben and Trevor continue their deck sessions, playing some classic Click Pitch and coming up with game designs such as: A game where you are an alien explorer cataloguing Earth; A teacher roguelike with in-depth student relationship mechanics; A high tech weapon alters physics in localised areas; and more!

Ben and Trevor wax lyrical about so many topics that aren't game design in this episode. However they did manage to talk about some game ideas so here they are: A long awaited sequel to Blind Reflection, the game from the second ever episode of the podA retrofuturistic world where the learnings from the past are forgotten.A game where you and your neighbours are digging tunnels to explore under the neighbourhood.

Ben and Trevor try to come up with ideas for the next batch of indie gems, including: a band finding inspiration in a haunted house; playing as the superintendent of a block of magical apartments; accidentally catfishing on dating apps; and more!

Ben and Trev continue the deck sessions and riff on some indie games such as: Investigating a mystery at Banana Corp as the CEO... A telepathic bananaWork as an health inspector for a group of shopsCarve away marble in a massively multiplayer game

The 2026 Deck Sessions continue as Ben and Trevor spend a lot of time discussing an 80s inspired game where you are taping songs off the radio, then go completely off the rails about reverse chicken football and a guy called Johnny Two-Fingers.

With GGJ having just completed for 2026, Ben and Trev use the theme "Mask" and generate a bunch of games that they could have made over the weekend: A teleporting TSA agent pursues a passenger through the terminalA parent and child must look after the driads of the forest.A prisoner must escape a french prison, while the warden makes a lot of mouse jokes.

Ben and Trevor revisit last year's Global Game Jam theme ahead of this year's jam: Bubble. With this in mind, they come up with games such as: a detective game where you play Glinda in Oz, long after the events of Dorothy;a tense deduction game set in a locked down apartment building;a nuclear power plant simulator with made up controls;and more!

This episode sees the long awaited return of dentists as villains, as Ben and Trev once again grace Ben's deck and record a summer nights podcast. The games discussed included. A first person soccer goal keeping game with wacky goal additionsA first person paperboy game set in a world with portals to a parallel world, not to be confused with Stranger Things a legally distinct propertyA narrative game where your partner is a minion working in the volcano lair of Dr. Tooth von Filling.

Ben and Trevor continue their 'On the Deck' series with another session of Ramped Up Click Pitch, riffing on game ideas such as: a 3D heist game where you play a group of scrappy resistance fighters in a cross between Hitman and Commandos; a top-down RPG about a journalist dealing with a government experiment in a small town; a multi-character exploration of first contact with aliens who offload their emotional processing to members of a hive-mind; and more!

Ben and Trev bring you the first episode of 2026, live from Ben's wonderful side deck. While they enjoy a beverage they muse on some interesting game ideas such as: Handling Brand Recognition for a drink companyDealing with absent forrest neighboursApply sunscreen to your Gran

As has been tradition for a few years now, Ben and Trevor have trawled the depths of Dark Steam on the Dark Web to find their favourite underground games of the year, including: a VR improv theatre game involving a plunger; a game about building your castle on wheels; a hive-mind bringing in new members; and more!