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A jam submission

The Slime Mold's DreamView project page

A short trashcore musical with accompanying fanzine, printable puppets, & "making of" documentary
Submitted by ashleecraft — 14 minutes, 54 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Objet d'art#14.5834.923
Stink#24.4404.769
Theme Use#44.5124.846
???#54.4404.769
Overall#64.3684.692
Stank#84.1534.462

Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

What modifiers did you use?
I used Fluxus as inspiration when making the musical instruments for this album - all music was played on instruments made from either trash or vegetables! I also made every component of this project over the span of the past 3 days while getting a good night's sleep each night, so I feel the "early to bed, late to rise" modifier was also fulfilled. I also gave myself the bonus modifier of "contains a historical reference" because I recently participated in the Historically Accurate Game Jam as well.

How would you consider this game to be Pompous Trash?
For this project, I wrote a short musical about a slime mold living during the French Revolution that wants to build a propeller hat to escape the Paris streets, & the plot is vaguely based on the plot of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. The songs are all covers of famous classical songs, & played solely on the aforementioned instruments made from trash/vegetables.

In addition to the musical album, I also created a printable fanzine about the slime mold characters, printable slime mold character puppets with attachable costumes, & a "making of" documentary where an auteur-esque character explains the process & you get to see the vegetable instruments.

Did you accomplish your goal?
Yes, I feel I did! I had a lot of fun making this.

What was your goal for creating this game?
When I was a kid, I was always making weird multimedia projects & just funny lil things I didn't worry too much about making perfect, so I wanted to bring that energy back for this project (& for future projects, now that I've used it again I realize how much I missed it)

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Comments

Bravo. If anyone but you wins the “Theme Use” category, I’m going to riot.

Submitted

PERFECT SCORE

Submitted

This is just so good, honestly probably my favorite entry

Submitted

This just gets Pompous Trash

Submitted

Ok I just watched the documentary. This submission is AMAZING. Love the dedication to the pompousness! Genuinely inspiring. I want to do something as creative as this for the next jam 🙏

Submitted

Flight of the slime mold SLAPS!!

Submitted

PROPS for making the documentary. OMG soooooooo gooooooood. Acapella, fanzine, documentary... this is beyond impressive.

Submitted

Such a pompous soundtrack. I approve. (Especially the mumbly voices in the background).

Submitted

I laughed, I cried, it was amazing. Haha, excellent work!

Submitted

Aloof, pretentious, condescending... it's trash.
Well done.

Squeaking veggies = comedy gold

Submitted

A most exquisite musical 👌

Combined with the physical materials and bonus cd of the director's commentary I truly felt like I was at the theater once again for a play or something of the sorts 👌

Submitted

the slime mold achieved his dream. He escaped the sewers of the french revolution, but who is this Ben he has found? is it himself?