steampunk – cybernescence

Steampunk Mouse

As the 1928 version of Mickey Mouse is now out of copyright, thought it was time there was a Steampunk Mouse with all the pith and vigour of Douglas Fairbanks: Interesting links on the subject: Public Domain Day 2024 | Duke University School of Law Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle…

6 January 2024

Cyan Eyed – Superb Steampunk Film

“Cyan Eyed” movie is a triumph of plot, engaging characters, special effects and music within a steampunk world. I’ve only just come across this spectacular film and it so resonates with the vibe of what I imagine and am trying to build for the ‘Cogwheel Chronicles’ game, it is almost spooky 🙂 It has sentient…

14 April 2022

Cogwheel Chronicles – Airship Combat

Watch Cathodia Callan fight off a marauding pirate airship equipped with a state of the art Tesla Cannon.

12 April 2022

Western Steampunk

The Wild West (or ‘Weird West’) has always been a part of the steampunk ethos. The two major historical steampunk conceits are ‘retro futurism’ within bothVictorian England and Wild West America. And as such Cogwheel Chronicles embraces both of these concepts within its game world. Early concept work for the weird wild west:

7 November 2020

Victorian England Steampunk

A call to an age of retro simplicity with the promise of so much more …

3 October 2020

Steampunk Airship Aerobatics

What is the best game play dynamics for the control of an airship for both combat and exploration purposes? That’s the exam question presently being wrestled with:

13 September 2020

New Hero Steampunk Airship

Some elements of 3d kitbashing have gone on to create this new hero airship for Cogwheel Chronicles. As much as I might want to create everything from scratch, I just don’t have the time at the moment. Still, I think it looks OK rendering in Unreal and looks pretty cool in action with flapping wings…

29 June 2020

Category: steampunk