This jam is now over. It ran from 2021-07-09 00:00:00 to 2021-07-22 06:15:00. View results

Check out the SEQUEL! Le 2023 Pompous Trash Jam!


A jam where the theme is...


Make a game over 10-days that is about pompous trash or is literally pompous trash. That's it! Become the garbage!

“ What makes these games special is the way they embrace the brokenness, distortion, journey from place to place that is lost to us during play… the way they work with how dysfunctional, pointless, or ridiculous games can be…” 
-Nathalie Lawhead

Join us on Discord! (Team Building, mentor pairing, kickoff event, and wrap-up event)


Optional Surprise Modifiers: 
(pick one... or more!)

Lost and Found  Use “found” assets (otherwise discarded code, imagery, or sound) in your game.
Snap crackle pop  Make a game where garbled sound plays a significant role in the game.
Scrubs only  Use a trash/weird control scheme (EG: microphone, press 20 times to jump once, or inverted camera ;D).


Rules:

1- Be nice

2- Use the theme, literally or figuratively

3- Optionally, use surprise modifiers (announced @ jam's start)

4- Credit / disclose asset packs used

5- Play and rank other games

Ranking Criteria:

1- "Objet d’art"

2- "Ohohoho "

3- "Stink"

4- "Stank"

Due to a technical oopsie Trash, Pompous, and Enjoyment are now criteria.

5- "???"

Hosted by Society of Play (based in Dallas TX 🤠)

Header art by Rose Frye (Twitter) (Itch.io)

Submissions(51)

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Windows (30)
macOS (9)
Linux (4)
Android (1)

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Work your last nightshift where nothing strange happens
Control BOTH Raccoon and Possum to collect pages, and through the power of teamwork you can read a book.
Platformer
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a detailed religion survival guide.
Interactive Fiction
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A Trash Collecting Tactical RPG
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lol frog no drip, help phrog
Platformer
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A real class act!
Action
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Help Raccoon become fancy in this clicker game.
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A surreal trashgame FPS where you only have two bullets to fight for your life.
Action
Your a pompous guy and you have to complete 10 levels by using others.
Platformer
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Hats and rats and bats too. Become the fanciest rat in the dumpster!
Puzzle
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A simple game about crabs, motherhood, global warming, and capitalism.
Adventure
The rat king's got a job for you, take out the targets.
Action
Take on everything from pencil drawn to Pompous and stick figure it to the man
Shooter
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As a UCH certified promotion reviewer, send your applicants to where they belong!
Puzzle
A quality (garbage) game by lilTimmy46.
Role Playing
A journey of emotion, where bright hope illuminates the darkness of past.
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Procedural generated hell.
Adventure
Ricochet hookshot climbing game
Adventure
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protect the right to forget and be forgotten through turn based combat
Role Playing
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A pretentious game of logic
Puzzle
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A weird pixel art game about a pompous guy, with some unsettling music and strange parties
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A little Street Goblin must get their friends balloons back.
A short visual novel adventure about the consciousness of what we discard.
Visual Novel
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SpongeMan SquareTrousers Battle For Bikini Ass Dehydrated
Platformer
a one-player storygame about last chances, judgment, and implacability in the face of despair
Certified Cool™ Cat Game
Interactive Fiction
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Step into the platform boots of Raz Berri as she sleuths around the city to uncover the whereabouts of her missing lover
Visual Novel
High-Society Garbage Animal: The Choose Your Own Adventure Story
Interactive Fiction
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a trash-themed sh___ post jam entry with scrubs-only controls
Action
Explore Your Romantic Possum-bilities
Interactive Fiction
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A game about turning back into a human.
Adventure
only the finest trash drinks for Jackintosh
Puzzle
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