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:

1. Investigating a mystery at Banana Corp as the CEO... A telepathic banana
2. Work as an health inspector for a group of shops
3. Carve 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:

1. A teleporting TSA agent pursues a passenger through the terminal
2. A parent and child must look after the driads of the forest.
3. 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:

1. a detective game where you play Glinda in Oz, long after the events of Dorothy;
2. a tense deduction game set in a locked down apartment building;
3. a nuclear power plant simulator with made up controls;
4. 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.

1. A first person soccer goal keeping game with wacky goal additions
2. A first person paperboy game set in a world with portals to a parallel world, not to be confused with Stranger Things a legally distinct property
3. A 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:

1. Handling Brand Recognition for a drink company
2. Dealing with absent forrest neighbours
3. Apply sunscreen to your Gran