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20,000 Leagues Above The Clouds

Recently announced by a Swedish indie gaming company, That Brain, is 20,000 Leagues Above The Clouds.  They describe it as;

Floating islands, airships, steampunk technology and alien sky pirates in victorian outfits populate the wondrous world of 20,000 Above. Design and outfit your ship with the gear you want, be it the biggest cannons and a shrink-ray, or fast engines and hidden cargo holds for smuggling. Obtain blueprints or reverse engineer your loot, then manufacture the equipment you need with resources collected from floating rocks and gas clouds. Hire crew members in shady ports that bring their own abilities and attitudes aboard. Make your luck trading, mining, running missions or scavenging the success of others as a flying buccaneer across the seven skies.

There isn't a whole lot of detail yet, but there is a short video about it.


It certainly sounds interesting if they can pull off what they are planning. Certainly one I'm going to be keeping an eye on.

Steampunk Art

Airships

When it comes to steampunk, it seems the only way to travel is airship.  Along with goggles, airships seem the most common feature of steampunk.  You can't swing a parasol around without hitting one half the time.  Why are they so common?  Perhaps it is because they represent freedom.  Perhaps it is simply because now they are seen as steampunk and therefore they have to be included by everyone new who comes along.

Steampunk being steampunk, airships come in a wide variety of types and forms, everything from typical, hard science zeppelins to blimps to fanciful flying ships powered by mad science.

They are piloted by pirates and adventurers, mad scientists, merchants and navies and everything else in between.

 

The Airship Captain

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