Steampunk MMORPG, A dearest desire…
Thursday, February 21st, 2008There 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.
