Steampunk MMORPG, A dearest desire…
There is a magical place where the most romantic visions of Victorian style and modern function come alive, a place where the gentleman meets captain tight-pants* and a geek like me feels a build-up of SQUEE in the pleasure zones of the brain. It is a place called Steampunk.
There is something beautiful and wondrous about the convergence of antiquity with the magic of the modern age, something so pleasing to the imagination, emboldening and free, timeless and golden. Steampunk takes you out of the fantasy realm, it removes you from the sci-fi and when your back is turned it re-arranges the furniture of both, dragging in the real and twisting strands of alternate history into a fabric of sheer magnificence!
Is there a MMORPG yet? Not that I can see… madness surely! The closest I think was Sword of the New World and that was a fairly shoddy ‘half-finished’ Korean offering and only barely touching on steampunk elements… not enough.
In my search so far I have uncovered hope courtesy of a blog, Brass Goggles.
The problem I find with ‘Neo Steam’ (Asides from it being in Korean) is that it is a very… well, a very different kind of steam punk. Those bouncy anime styled breasts on the front page of their portal tell me its going to be a very cutesy approach.
Edit: I highly recommend you subscribe to the feed of the above site if you enjoy steampunk, it sucked me in for hours and hours of archive back-tracking… I am sure there are alternatives out there that I haven’t discovered but I’ll put my faith in this one, it is rather nicely done.
Edit 2: I am resolved to add a new set of pages dealing with a Steampunk MMORPG concept, I will be seeking permission however since it will adapt a large portion of a friends background material which is already highly suited towards this end.
-Tom
Sure I’d leave your character for dead…
*Firefly we miss you.
March 24th, 2008 at 5:37 am
though it is way under the table right now i have actually assembled a small development staff to create a steampunk MMORPG. the target for starting work on the actual demo to be used in finding necessary funding is the summer of 2010. it is our hope we can get the huge sum of money and/or ancillary support by the end of that year. if we can we will launch in 2013. it seems like a long way off but it really is not.
part of the reason it will take so ling is i am personally investing around 80k in a masters degree in new media as evidence of commitment for investors as well as the provision of insight in the feild of content generation.
as far as i have been able to discover, aside from NS, we are the only serious endeavor working on a steampunk MMORPG. a key in our work is we are working on a western steampunk world.
the title is Providence.
my web page is a blog i am keeping for my studies and for my development staff. you are more than welcome to take a look at it. however, there is no information reguarding the actual IP we are developing. thats going to remain secret for a while.
March 25th, 2008 at 6:11 pm