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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!)

Table MannersForce those consuming your art to do so politely
Garbage FireApproach your project with reckless abandon! Polish? Juice? Quality? What's that?!
Curation 🖼️Steal Curate other's works & incorporate them into your game.
Avante GÂRΒÂGÉ 🎭✨Like Avante Garde... But trash.
Too many modifiers4 modifiers? That's way too many. Ignore all of these.

Rules

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

3/27 - Jam start! Team building & kickoff-event on our Discord

4/13 - Jam end! Late submissions allowed, instructions on our Discord. 

4/17 - Jam wrap-up event! On Discord we'll play everyone's games! 

4/20 - 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
“ 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 🤠, but for creators everywhere!)
Header art by Andy Vo.


Submissions(44)

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Windows (14)
macOS (4)
Linux (3)
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A quick stop at the gas station gets strange really quickly.
Disco-like in an American grocery store
Interactive Fiction
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Survive from your illusions personified as bizarre Monsters!
Puzzle
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Will you live your predestined life or chase for something more?
Interactive Fiction
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TTRPG about becoming the supreme trash lord
A point-and-click maze set in a bizarre mall, vaporwave style! My first game ever!
Visual Novel
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Complete your mission!
Action
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Drive fast, deliver rat customers to rat destinations!
Racing
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A furry dating sim rhythm game
Rhythm
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Beat Them All Up in this 3D "Mystery Action Game"
Action
You are lost inside a Japanese convenience store (made in Google Slides)
Visual Novel
A brief, random zine celebrating the hyperactive dumbass I've always been.
A zine we made for the Pompous Trash Jam ✨
Help woodland critters reclaim their home
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clean up a MESSY house with your SUPER VACUUM
For the Pompous Trash Jam 2025
A Template Project for Palettized Games
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I think I got it done.
Adventure
garbage render
A cozy match3 game about changing matter and the matters of self-change.
Puzzle
Pompous trash
A Love Story or Something Interesting Like That. Just Imagine This Is Really Attention Grabbing
Action
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Gomi makes Moni; Moni buys trash.
Puzzle
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An intro game to the Noon Comics Universe - Issue 0 for the Reviver Storylines
Platformer
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Play quick minigames to steal... no... CURATE your art gallery
Action
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Yum stinky garbage uhhhh
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Ball attack in football yard
Sports
You're just an ordinary employee
Simulation
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While away the hours accumulating garbage credz to fill the hole in your soul.
Simulation
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Talk . With the beast . Shower them .
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Flushed from fortune to filth, fight your way back with wig and wit!
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an article from Players' Press
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Rotate colors and connect shapes! Use the power of math to get as big of a number as possible!
Puzzle
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A short puzzle platformer
Platformer
The Bay Area, 2050. So it's like, at least 50,000 times stupider and funnier than today.
Trash-digging odyssey
Simulation
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i rushed this for a game jam
Shooter
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