This jam is now over. It ran from 2023-07-21 00:00:00 to 2023-08-07 07:59:59. View results

Deadline extended 3-hours!
Still late? Late submissions are allowed!
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Cast aside your insecurities!
Reject the shackles of expectations that tether us to reality!

Embrace your unbound expression of filth!
Make the scummiest most self-indulgent art you can imagine!


Basics

The Pompous Trash Jam is an annual 17-day anything jam!
That means you can submit anything! Video games, board games, a photo collage, music, or whatever!

Kickoff & wrap-up events
They are hosted on our Discord. You can also ask questions, share progress, and build teams! Joining is optional! But we'd love to have you!

What is Pompous Trash?
Idk lol, what is art? That's up to you.


Optional Surprise Modifiers

(pick none, one, or more!)

FluxusDo crime, drink from the inheritors of the art foundation, use everything to make anything. Draw inspiration from the Fluxus art movement.
buttsb u t t s  πŸ†The community submission winner!πŸ†
Perform a Blood SacrificeSacrifice one or more features you wanted in your game in exchange for a good night's rest.
Early to bed, late to rise
Start late or end early! Only spend 10-days on the jam!

Rules

1Be nice
2Anything can be submitted!
3Optionally, use surprise modifiers
4Credit / disclose contributors & asset packs used
5Do not submit games made before the jam
6Play and rank other games


Ranking Criteria

Overall - How much did you like this submission?
Objet d'art - How pompous is this submission?
Stink - Up to you!
Stank - Up to you!
Theme Use - How well did this submission leverage "Pompous Trash"?
??? - The secret sauce! And it's up to you!

Important Dates

7/20 - Jam start! Team building & kickoff-event on our Discord!
8/6 - Jam end! Late submissions allowed, instructions on our Discord.
8/10 - Jam wrap-up event! On Discord we'll play everyone's games!
8/13 - Voting ends! You can leave our Discord after this (or not!).


Pompous Trash Jam is for creativity!
Quality is optional!

"I'm going to make everything around me beautiful trash- that will be my life."
-Elise de Wolfe
β€œ What makes these games special pompous is the way they embrace
the brokenness, distortion, trashiness, 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
If you have good thoughts, cringe. Only bad thoughts!
they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."
-Roald Dahl


Hosted by Society of Play
(based in Dallas TX πŸ€ , but for creators everywhere!)

Header art by Codie Mckneely (ArtStation)

Submissions(38)

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macOS (5)
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SAVE THE WORLD, RECOVER THE COHERENCE CORES
Adventure
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A narrative woven out of sequence - shifting chronology renders transformative context to your actions as you progress.
Overwatch Clone with Characters from the Grombit Universe
Action
RPG Platformer with visual novel components
Action
ITS THE WORST GAME!!
Survival
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Get ready for the slide deck to end all slide decks
He's a little friend, wandering the world, seeing the sights.
trash game
Action
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Basic poker game, but with 2D faces poking you around if they win or are whinny if the lose
Puzzle
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Educational
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An RPG for the discerning dumpster divers of distinction!
A retro reimagining of Talos I and the horrors aboard
Survival
A dragon is hoarding trash in its dungeon which the lovely possum Trashja MsOfdsop and friends want.
Adventure
Soulslike Action RPG About The Continuing Adventures of Sisyphus!
Role Playing
A short trashcore musical with accompanying fanzine, printable puppets, & "making of" documentary
A simple 3D platformer audio game made for a game jam
Platformer
Help your buddy Poppy fix her drinks machine, the TasteMaker 2000.
A primitive 2d puzzle platformer from beyond this world.
Platformer
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Ruin the Coffee like a pro.
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A prelude to a journey into the moonlit gloom.
Trash Panda Collecting Trash for the Trash King
Hex Grid Into The Breach + Armored Core + Pompous Trash (2023)
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Art museum? More like FART MUSEUM
Adventure
STOP the reckoning!!! venture forth, dude
Adventure
Help the Sapphire Fire go home.
Platformer
song for the Pompous Trash 2 Jam
Visual Novel Lawyer Game for the SOP's Pompous Trash 2 Jam
Visual Novel
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3 color digital thing.
πŸ’– Made for my 6-month old son. πŸ’–
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3D platformer for where a pompous man tosses a wild variety of hats to complete puzzles.
Puzzle
Revival Jam - Persona VN Parody
Visual Novel
In order to win
Rhythm
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A text adventure where a self-important asshole tells you his thoughts.
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A dungeon-crawling beat-em-up
Action
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