Exploring steampunk

[Agentt]

So...I feel like media doesn't do justice to the seemingly infinite possibilities steampunk provides.

What is steampunk? It's cyberpunk for past.

In cyber punk, we imagine that in future, everyone will be a cyborg, with computer chips installed in their minds, and cameras installed in their eyes.

In steam punk, we imagine what the future would had looked like for people whose best invention was a steam train.

I have never read or seen anything which does this genre of world building any justice. The most common is to stuff a top hat with gears and bring a wooden cane which spews poison. Or acts like a gun. Even the anime Fire Force had potential for being a great steam punk due to the introduction of concept of their never ending fire. But they just said it powers the thermal plant and nothing more!

Steam punk is much more magical, it's a pure innocent world of a child where one isn't binded by physics and can do whatever he wants.

While all cyber and steam punk are focused on the grim reality of cooperates taking over the government, they shine very less light on the beauty and marvel of, say; installing magnets beneath my house to make it levitate.


Like, no one ever thought that it would be cool to have a watch which also has a calendar in it and location for stars and a compass too?


So, what are some steam punk ideas you could think of? Remember that it should be something people of 1800s thought would be future. It cannot be something like, "There will be no pollution in future," because people of that time didn't care for pollution.

You are not just limited to mechanical of course, feel free to write something about chemistry or biology too.

Some ideas I could think of are
1. Everyone will have their own hot air balloon to travel.
2. Cycles that can float in water and have paddles on wheels will be used to cross lakes.
3. Measles will be cured just by swallowing a small pill.
4. Lanterns will be able to operate underwater.
5. Omnibuses will be able to fold up for easy storage or parking in small spots.

Spoiler: Racist comment

Spoiler: Don't click or else!

6. In future, everyone will be able to afford a

Spoiler: N-word

Spoiler: You know, one fpr black people that people from 1800s used

Spoiler: Why are you opening these? What is this interest in reading a word?

nigger

to clean their house.

 

[RavenRunes]

Ok I laughed at your spoilers, but really...behave!
Steampunk to me is having household inventions that we take for granted now, but if it was back then they'd be steam powered. Wallace and Grommit actually has a couple of things like this in. And Colin Furze on youtube has a couple of things that could be turned steampunk if the power source was steam and not electricity, like his tea maker. Pull a lever and this huge clunky thing does the work mechanically (and takes three times as long as it would doing it the normal way).
Other things might be personal steam-powered bubble cars, airships (of course - steam punk staple), and complicated truth machines, or calculators.

 

[Agentt]

Ok I laughed at your spoilers, but really...behave!
Steampunk to me is having household inventions that we take for granted now, but if it was back then they'd be steam powered. Wallace and Grommit actually has a couple of things like this in. And Colin Furze on youtube has a couple of things that could be turned steampunk if the power source was steam and not electricity, like his tea maker. Pull a lever and this huge clunky thing does the work mechanically (and takes three times as long as it would doing it the normal way).
Other things might be personal steam-powered bubble cars, airships (of course - steam punk staple), and complicated truth machines, or calculators.

Mm! That is a good idea. Like a motorised spoon which dips itself into cereal and then feeds you. A motorised whisk, a motorised rotating knife to cut veggies

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

So...I feel like media doesn't do justice to the seemingly infinite possibilities steampunk provides.

What is steampunk? It's cyberpunk for past.

In cyber punk, we imagine that in future, everyone will be a cyborg, with computer chips installed in their minds, and cameras installed in their eyes.

In steam punk, we imagine what the future would had looked like for people whose best invention was a steam train.

I have never read or seen anything which does this genre of world building any justice. The most common is to stuff a top hat with gears and bring a wooden cane which spews poison. Or acts like a gun. Even the anime Fire Force had potential for being a great steam punk due to the introduction of concept of their never ending fire. But they just said it powers the thermal plant and nothing more!

Steam punk is much more magical, it's a pure innocent world of a child where one isn't binded by physics and can do whatever he wants.

While all cyber and steam punk are focused on the grim reality of cooperates taking over the government, they shine very less light on the beauty and marvel of, say; installing magnets beneath my house to make it levitate.


Like, no one ever thought that it would be cool to have a watch which also has a calendar in it and location for stars and a compass too?


So, what are some steam punk ideas you could think of? Remember that it should be something people of 1800s thought would be future. It cannot be something like, "There will be no pollution in future," because people of that time didn't care for pollution.

You are not just limited to mechanical of course, feel free to write something about chemistry or biology too.

Some ideas I could think of are
1. Everyone will have their own hot air balloon to travel.
2. Cycles that can float in water and have paddles on wheels will be used to cross lakes.
3. Measles will be cured just by swallowing a small pill.
4. Lanterns will be able to operate underwater.
5. Omnibuses will be able to fold up for easy storage or parking in small spots.

Spoiler: Racist comment

Spoiler: Don't click or else!

6. In future, everyone will be able to afford a

Spoiler: N-word

Spoiler: You know, one fpr black people that people from 1800s used

Spoiler: Why are you opening these? What is this interest in reading a word?

nigger

to clean their house.

I would prefer the alternatives mentioned in this video.

 

[BenJepheneT]

Spoiler: Racist comment

That's just fucken bait.

Spoiler: Why are you opening these? What is this interest in reading a word?

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It was nice knowing you, @Agentt. Hope you got a good alt ready for deployment.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Dieselpunk is better.

 

[BearlyAlive]

potato punk is where the sh*t's at

 

[Agentt]

That's just fucken bait.

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It was nice knowing you, @Agentt. Hope you got a good alt ready for deployment.

God, that's a nostalgic meme. And my heart feels so light and free after saying that. Will do it again, 9/11 stars.

 

[Zirrboy]

People of that time didn't care for pollution

But we're not talking about "that time" no?

 

[Agentt]

But we're not talking about "that time" no?

Well yes, but a. Steam engine is the only power source available, and b. This is what people of that time thought future would be like. Though you can of course say we will find clean fuel, though a better wording would be "we can purify coal to not release smoke."

 

[TroubleFait]

You should check out Steamboy, by Katsuhiro Ōtomo, it should greatly please you!

Also, Andrew Seiple wrote the Dire Saga, a series of books about a megalomaniac genius supervillain in a world where Tesla broke the world and superpowers appear left and right. Its not exactly steampunk, and there's a lot of it that is regular, modern science fiction, but it is much based on old science fiction when electricity was still new and wondrous. I highly recommend it, it should be right in your preferences.

For example, instead of landlines electricity is broadcasted by tesla generators, and so long as you are in the broadcast zone and have a receiver your machine is powered. It also supports the equivalent to the Internet.

 

[Nahrenne]

So...I feel like media doesn't do justice to the seemingly infinite possibilities steampunk provides.

What is steampunk? It's cyberpunk for past.

In cyber punk, we imagine that in future, everyone will be a cyborg, with computer chips installed in their minds, and cameras installed in their eyes.

In steam punk, we imagine what the future would had looked like for people whose best invention was a steam train.

I have never read or seen anything which does this genre of world building any justice. The most common is to stuff a top hat with gears and bring a wooden cane which spews poison. Or acts like a gun. Even the anime Fire Force had potential for being a great steam punk due to the introduction of concept of their never ending fire. But they just said it powers the thermal plant and nothing more!

Steam punk is much more magical, it's a pure innocent world of a child where one isn't binded by physics and can do whatever he wants.

While all cyber and steam punk are focused on the grim reality of cooperates taking over the government, they shine very less light on the beauty and marvel of, say; installing magnets beneath my house to make it levitate.


Like, no one ever thought that it would be cool to have a watch which also has a calendar in it and location for stars and a compass too?


So, what are some steam punk ideas you could think of? Remember that it should be something people of 1800s thought would be future. It cannot be something like, "There will be no pollution in future," because people of that time didn't care for pollution.

You are not just limited to mechanical of course, feel free to write something about chemistry or biology too.

Some ideas I could think of are
1. Everyone will have their own hot air balloon to travel.
2. Cycles that can float in water and have paddles on wheels will be used to cross lakes.
3. Measles will be cured just by swallowing a small pill.
4. Lanterns will be able to operate underwater.
5. Omnibuses will be able to fold up for easy storage or parking in small spots.

Spoiler: Racist comment

Spoiler: Don't click or else!

6. In future, everyone will be able to afford a

Spoiler: N-word

Spoiler: You know, one fpr black people that people from 1800s used

Spoiler: Why are you opening these? What is this interest in reading a word?

nigger

to clean their house.

I feel like the Mortal Engines book series was steampunk.
I think the Dishonored game series could be seen as steampunk, in a way, too.
As for other steampunk ones, I think I've heard that Lord of Mysteries is set in a steampunk world.

I'm mentioning these cos they could be used as inspiration or just something to get the juices in the brain flowing for ideas.
Though, I suppose that's the same thing.
>w<

Good luck with your project(?).

X

 

[BenJepheneT]

Dieselpunk is better.

Fucken based

 

[Nahrenne]

I feel like the Mortal Engines book series was steampunk.
I think the Dishonored game series could be seen as steampunk, in a way, too.
As for other steampunk ones, I think I've heard that Lord of Mysteries is set in a steampunk world.

I'm mentioning these cos they could be used as inspiration or just something to get the juices in the brain flowing for ideas.
Though, I suppose that's the same thing.
>w<

Good luck with your project(?).

X

@Agentt
Oh! I thought of another example of steampunk....I think.
The Bioshock series?

X

 

[DarkeReises]

@Agentt
Oh! I thought of another example of steampunk....I think.
The Bioshock series?

X

Bioshock isn't steampunk. They used electricity. Though I did like the aesthetic, whatever it's considered.

Also although Lord of the Mysteries has steampunk elements, I don't know if I'd consider it just steampunk. Then again, there are steam ships, steam cars(they exist but they're very rare and i only saw it mentioned in the book a handful of times), and steam trains. But it's not the main focus of the setting, just kinda how it is due to plot reasons.
I'm pretty sure it was mentioned that oil doesn't exist on the world.

 

[Echimera]

Bioshock isn't steampunk. They used electricity. Though I did like the aesthetic, whatever it's considered.

Bioshock 1 and 2 used a lot of typical Art Deco elements, so it'd be best placed there as well. And apparently there is such a thing as Decopunk.
Bioshock 3 used neoclassical architecture and of course everything colonial America as a (visual) inspiration.

Technology wise, they're all over the place, given that stuff like the coal or diesel powered security bot can be hacked just as well as the health-stations and vending machines.

 

[T.K._Paradox]

If I were to do steampunk it be set in the American Midwest, because London or anywhere in the U.K. is boring and overused, and where some type of fuel source was proven to be more efficient in steam engines and combustion engines would be either seen as out dated or by poor people.

I would have a stand in for Ford or another big automotive company that would have a big grasp over the rust belt and would place corrupt state officials in office nationalizing their industry, basically turning the rust belt into a near autonomous zone from the rest of the USA
Mechanical computers would be used more often and be seen as superior to electronic ones. Given how machines are more easier to repair without the need for coding.

Private sectors for the rich elite and higher ranked union workers would have their own private police of sorts, who answer to the corporate police.

Mechanical augmentations would be fairly common for industrial workers.

Weaponry would be divided between experimental weaponry, and weaponry of the era.

Electricity, in the traditional sense, would be see almost never, as steam generators would be more efficient.

Deforestation would be a huge problem, as well as monopoly laws.

Some historical nods could be thrown in their. Like John Rockefeller being broke, because oil sales crashed and he wasn't ever able to start standard oil.

President Theodore Roosevelt would be demonized by the industrial rulers of the rust belt. Referring to him as an eco terrorist and a dirty social capitalist for wanting to break trusts and dismantle corporation's monopolies and mega unions.

The unions would be formed by the corporation in order to make sure that they have some 'blue-collar' middle men, and seeing the fall of the unregulated capitalism falling to unions and socialists (or a form of them) in the U.K.

Corporate secret police that pays those that rat out people that are trying to form counter unions compared to the ones the corporation makes its workers go into, aka less corptocracy more syndicalism, because 'capitalism bad' is a boring narrative and third position economics are more interesting to explore.

The heads of the rust belt would be union leaders, corrupt officials, industrial tycoons, railroad barons, heads of private and corporate police.

Have an few extremist groups.

Etc. Etc.

 

[Agentt]

You should check out Steamboy, by Katsuhiro Ōtomo, it should greatly please you!

Also, Andrew Seiple wrote the Dire Saga, a series of books about a megalomaniac genius supervillain in a world where Tesla broke the world and superpowers appear left and right. Its not exactly steampunk, and there's a lot of it that is regular, modern science fiction, but it is much based on old science fiction when electricity was still new and wondrous. I highly recommend it, it should be right in your preferences.

For example, instead of landlines electricity is broadcasted by tesla generators, and so long as you are in the broadcast zone and have a receiver your machine is powered. It also supports the equivalent to the Internet.

I feel like the Mortal Engines book series was steampunk.
I think the Dishonored game series could be seen as steampunk, in a way, too.
As for other steampunk ones, I think I've heard that Lord of Mysteries is set in a steampunk world.

I'm mentioning these cos they could be used as inspiration or just something to get the juices in the brain flowing for ideas.
Though, I suppose that's the same thing.
>w<

Good luck with your project(?).

X

>.>
Calling it project sounds so...professional for me.

Bit thank you for reccomendations!

 

[Nahrenne]

>.>
Calling it project sounds so...professional for me.

Well, I didn't really know how to call it.
'-'
Should I call it a passing thought of interest, instead?

Bit thank you for reccomendations!

No worries!
*huggles*

X

 

[Agentt]

Well, I didn't really know how to call it.
'-'
Should I call it a passing thought of interest, instead?

Mmm!

No worries!
*huggles*

X

*squeezes*