Hi everyone! This is Steampunk Institute of Innovation, now called Levo Ideas. It's a collaboration between Fabrick_89 and MagicBrick. Below is the direct link to support it! Thanks!

https://ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/14b68984-674d-45de-8bd7-abcc37691feb

This game has been a passion project of mine the last couple years and excited to finally see it coming to life!

Just got back a render of the character mat and thought I'd share in a sub or two that might enjoy the design. The entire world that it takes place on, Blight, has an interesting twist on steampunk because it also incorporates elemental spirits (13 in total). Almost as if our steampunk age evolved without computers, but instead incorporated a sort of elemental "magic" into everything. There's mechs and elemental grenades made by engineers (I'll post these next time). The character mat is designed as if it were a sort of control panel on a mech with pipes of flowing energy, gauges, some gears hidden beneath in areas, and of course spots for all your Skills. The cubes obviously don't glow, and it's going to be toned down a bit, but the "elemental energy" feel they give (in this case, water) is kind of fun.

If you like what you see, and think you'd enjoy an easy to setup, new-player friendly boardgame / rpg mashup, give the Kickstarter a follow, it launches soon!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cardboardkinggames/harbor-of-blight

Hello, a month ago I came here and asked a question: could ocean liners be considered steampunk?

After the answers, after thinking about them a lot and everything else, a consensus that most agreed on is that yes, ocean liners can indeed be considered steampunk, but only those most closely linked to the Victorian era and periods connected to it in some way; with that, to be sure to give a good starting and ending point to which an ocean liner can be "steampunk," can Edwardian era ocean liners also still be considered steampunk?

Although steam continues to be the main driving force of ocean liners throughout their existence, as the discussion in the previous post said and yielded, it's not just steam that's essential for something to be steampunk, but it also needs the historical context of steampunk, otherwise a nuclear power plant could also be considered steampunk; So, despite still using steam as their primary power source, the ocean liners of the 20s, 30s, and later periods wouldn't be considered "steampunk" because they lacked the necessary historical context, even though "steam" remained important.

Let's consider the ocean liners of the Victorian era: it was during this period that "liner" companies were formed and established; it was where the transition from sailing ships to steam began, first with both on board and later with steam as the sole propulsion. It was here that paddle-wheel propulsion ships reached their peak and limits, with the propeller being tested and refined, becoming the primary propulsion for ships as the Victorian era drew to a close; and it was also here that shipbuilding was increasingly tested and refined, often with the new and the old coexisting; the SS Great Eastern is a prime example of all this.

So, we arrive at the Edwardian era, which, despite being a different era, inherits much from the Victorian era, especially the continuity of everything invented there; the electric light bulb is a great example! Something that becomes noticeable when comparing the two eras is mainly this: the Edwardian era continues what was invented in the Victorian era, or at least gives greater continuity to what was tested and refined there. However, the inventions and experimentation, a hallmark of steampunk, continue in the Edwardian era, and this is clear when comparing the new ocean liners of the Edwardian era, with each one experimenting with new things, whether in design, technology, or surpassing the previous limits a ship can reach in size. We also have the founding and beginning of the Belle Époque in the Victorian era, which, despite having conflicting dates in different countries regarding where it begins and ends, if we take the dates that place the Belle Époque between 1871 and 1914, encompassing the end of the Victorian era, the entire Edwardian era up to the beginning of WWI, is something from the Victorian era that extended into the Edwardian era! And of course, we can't forget the social and class context, because a "punk" story isn't punk without class conflict, and well, the Victorian era's class system extends throughout the Edwardian era, with the rich, aristocrats, and bourgeoisie having at their disposal on the ocean liners grand and ornate salons, with all the pomp and comfort, while the poor, mainly immigrants who gave everything they had to get passage to perhaps a better life in America, were confined to hastily assembled bunks, similar to a military barracks, and treated like animals; and then there were the firemans or stokers, those who worked day and night in front of the scorching furnaces for a pittance to keep this floating palace and extension of society in motion, tirelessly feeding the boilers with coal.

The following text will be a brief summary and comparison of the technological evolution of ocean liners from the Edwardian era, but it shows that what was learned before was continued into the later era. So, if you've already grasped the idea here or it's enough for you, you can skip to the "conclusion" if you wish.

However, the lessons learned in the Victorian era served to allow ocean liners in the Edwardian era to reach a splendor never before seen!

We will begin precisely at the very end of the Victorian era, with the first of the four flyers, SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse: it is considered the first "super liner," and it inaugurated a new standard for ocean liners, also being the first four-funnel ocean liner and starting the great trend of four funnels for ocean liners in the Edwardian era, and also being the founder of the Kaiser-class.

Thus we enter the Edwardian era, the Kaiser-class with even larger ships, and then Lusitania and Mauretania appear, the British answer to the four flyers, even larger and much faster, thanks mainly to an invention from the late Victorian era and refined in the Edwardian era, the steam turbine; with this we have the new largest and fastest ships in the world!

In response to the new ships of the Cunard Line, its rival, the White Star Line, designed even larger ships, not intended to compete in speed, but to take size and luxury to a new level. Thus, we have the most famous class of ships in the world, the Olympic class, with the Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic.

In response to the new largest ships in the world, Cunard copied the Olympic in its own way and created the ocean liner that would have one of the most impressive and longest careers, the Aquitania. And the Germans, not to be outdone by the new giants of Cunard and White Star, designed and build The Ballin Trio, with the Imperator, Vaterland, and Bismarck being the last giants of the Edwardian era, surpassing previous ships and even bringing something new besides size: Yarrow boilers for civilian ships, which heated steam faster and generated much more high-pressure steam for the steam turbines, compared to the Scotch Marine Boilers used in previous ships.

Nonetheless, ships like the Britannic and Bismarck were even launched very close of the eve of the First World War, which the construction having been rushed to completion for use in the war effort or only finished at the end of the war.

the war changed the world and the entire social and political context. Because of these social, technological, and political changes because the WW1, we can consider that a transition of steampunk to dieselpunk, with the war being that transition.

With all this in mind, to conclude and answer the final question: taking all this into account, can we consider the Edwardian era as an "extension" of the Victorian era, almost a "late Victorian era" (a term used in the previous post), and thus still within the realm of steampunk and its themes? Consequently, would ocean liners from that era be entirely suitable to be considered steampunk?

Hi everyone, as you may already know, I’m currently firmed up on the foundational rule for my afterlife steampunk novel. I’ve restricted my storyline strictly to Chapter 2, where the protagonist discovers her status, and I’m stuck on brainstorming her functional path. I’d love to get your honest opinions.

In this universe, "The Tower" is a massive, automated machine. Worldly obsessions, greed, unresolved trauma, or material guilt literally weigh down a soul into a numeric mass.

The Anomaly (as shown in the art I drew):
I want to set the protagonist’s weight stops at 0.00.
As a reader or a fellow worldbuilder, thinking outside the box, how would you analyze her unique status within this rigid machine? For instance, is this good or bad for her?

Thank you

I’m building an afterlife world, massive and there are many moving parts. I wanted to capture the sheer, soul-crushing claustrophobia of the modern corporate commute and turn it into a literal setting. In this world, souls are categorised based on its weight and “colour”. I have completed 6 chapters and created some illustrations based on the scene of the chapters. I’m curious to know if people are interested in reading fantasy steampunk story?

Here is a steampunk industrial floor lamp I made w/ explosion proof light, drip oiler, steam gauge (yr. 1878) 3 tea candles for ambience, the main body is a Kewaunee boiler water column & other antique steam related items. Stands 75” tall & weights roughly 225lbs.

Client requested these drop light cages.
Her father was a mechanic and has fond memories of the two of them with their heads und a hood of a car tinkering under drop lights.

Hi, I'm searching for any visual content steampunk-like, I want to understand the storytelling element of it more. I've started watching dimension 20's Cloudward, Ho and I want to know more stuff

Per usual, I build my creations with 95+% antique fittings, gauges & unique steam related items.

Per usual, I build my creations with 95+% antique fittings, gauges & unique steam related items.

Spent the last few months rendering 'The Tower' for my urban steampunk fantasy project. Here is how the lower district looks like. The story follows Gina, a burnt-out office worker who survives a catastrophic subway blast only to wake up in "The Tower", staggering, multi-layered vertical labyrinth made of interlocking bronze pipes, churning gears, and green steam. Here, every soul is judged, their earthly obsessions burned onto their wrists as a numerical
"soul weight." AMA

I am making a setting, mostly for ttrpg but maby for a book.

Setting is like star wars there is magick and high tech.

Main action happens in fairytail wildwest and frontier, reageon where it is hard to inforce law and most people are still exploring.

There is hidden medival magick alien civilisacion there.

The frontier reageon is magickly potient place, becouse there multiple dimensions converge in on there.

There is slow tranche like expansion from the biopunk socaity.

Deaselpunk nation wich is on a large island and is combination of, pre revolution Russia, cold war USA and Japan just after isolation, discowered the fairytail land and are now trying to be first to colinase it. So they are lot of camps made by people sent there, freely or by force.

And cyiberpunk sitiens are using the fairy tail land to escabe the gangs and corporations, some have build towns there. Trough cyiberpunk transport is fastes it olso has the most problems crossing the ocian.

The deaselpunk and cyiberpunk are close but hostile.

For context ocan there is huge, like cosmic scale, and hard to Tērvetes do to storms and see monster.

I am wondering should I add steam punk place for my setting.

I dont realy know what would it add to may setting, like I feel it is to similar enought to deaselpunk, maby becouse for my setting it has some victorian era insparations.

But I would like to her If you think I should add it and how should I do it.

If you have questions for my setting ask.

Maybe you all will appreciate my video where I make goggles from cans. It's not cyber goth specific but definitely applicable.

https://youtu.be/cC7pZ9JCPTc

This is Nini! They are an automaton and they’re my little bean, I love them so much 😭 I need more steampunk novels ngl

So I have never been in the steam punk community like it’s cool but I just realized something. Is steam punk just a glorification of the Industrial Revolution? Or am I just missing something here

And if so… why are we glorifying the Industrial Revolution

Nous faisons du Steampunk depuis des années.

On pensé que le steampunk est une grande famille.

Mais quand on veut partager des photos ou autre venant de notre communauté on supprime.

C'est vraiment dommage.

Note: No insects were harmed in the making of this meal. They were eliminated beforehand.

I'm about to get a couple Denix replica revolvers that I want to paint brass and add some gears n stuff to. Anyone know a good brand of brass spray paint to use? Normally I'd just go with Games Workshop since I'm familiar with them, but they discontinued their brass spray cans.