Steampunk/Dieselpunk Thread

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>>34969009

Steampunk is a pleb's fantasy genre
At least cyberpunk has some credibility, it shows a probable view of the near future, where corporations have more power than governments, a high-tech, low-humanity dystopia
Steampunk is just sticking gears on Victorian era stuff

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>>34969009

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>>34969100
It's all kind of gay but diesel punk is better

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>>34969121
Just what's on my phone.

If anyone is interested, this is from Leviathan by Scott Westerfield.

>>34969100
It's a assault chicken.

>>34969140
>>34969127
Zeppelin deployed anti walker troops

>>34969095
That's shitty steampunk.

I think the issue with steampunk vs cyberpunk is that in cyberpunk, a less technically inclined artist can produce slick looking objects and designs that "just werk" due to future tech (you can argue super-small micro tech, etc, its basically magic as far as the reader is concerned). With steampunk, convincing design becomes harder because its very easy to produce stuff that looks totally wrong. Shit covered in gears that do nothing, with no clear place for steam to run or a boiler.

Proper steampunk can be very exciting with its designs but requires better technical skills than average.

And don't get me started on "steampunk" that really puts some magical crystals or uses leylines or some shit to power everything.

>>34969095

it's an alternative history, add few inventions, remove few wars and never invent the transistor/internal combustion engine and presto - steam punk

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>>34969149
Fuck

>>34969160
it don't make sense
you have all these unnecesarry gizmos, flying massive blimps and zeppelins, advanced weaponry, but not something as simple (in comparison) as an internal combustion engine

>never invent the transistor
that's dieselpunk

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Sam Hyde was right again

>>34969182
See, I like the First World War era alternate styles but technically that's not steampunk and it's not diesel punk. Scot Westerfield made it difficult saying that whilst Leviathan is set too late for steampunk as such and is too early for dieselpunk he still considers it steampunk.

I'd rather just call it alternate Great War era. Mudpunk? Chauchatpunk?

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>>34969167
These are just fucking cool without being full of goggles and gears bullshit

>>34969203
Perhaps Victoriapunk. All the technology of the late Victorian combined into vehicles and weapons of the sort that you might see at some great World's Fair exhibition of the day, except they actually work and are adopted by the military instead of being curios relics.

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>>34969203
It may not technically fall under steampunk or dieselpunk but IMO I consider it close enough to post in this thread (and I also want an excuse to post Jakub Rozalski art)

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>>34969229

>>34969100
Für das emperor?

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>>34969237

I never knew diesel punk was a thing, I find this much more interesting than steam punk. Thanks OP!

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>>34969276
with pleasure bud

>>34969121
That fucking zipper is bothering me.

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>>34969311
thank god i'm not the only one

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>>34969311
Yeah I know.

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god damn why can't there be dieselpunk vidya, so much potential

>>34969366
An open world RPG similar in playing style to fallout New Vegas with a player like this >>34969323 >>34969121
Would be groovy as fuck. The art would need to be consistent and very good though. There's fable 2/3 I guess. That has a slightly steampunk mixed with English 1700-1850s style. Though they kind of suck. Fable 1 was good though.

I would love a world in dieselpunk/ww1 era to explore. If done right then it would be fantastic.

>>34969376
I think this is the closest we're getting to a dieselpunk game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwPtWxcs0ho

>>34969400
Looks cool and all but these styles of game always end up as a RTS. I want something more immersive and with a full exploitable world. I have enough strategy games.

>>34969418
Sounds like it would be hard to turn into an RPG with a WW1 setting. I don't think it'd mesh well. How could you turn that into an open world?

>>34969121
That mask is A E S T H E T I C

>>34969564>>34969454
It doesn't have to be on a battlefield. Think like the skyrim civil war, dragon age. Doesn't have to be part of a war. Just in that aesthetic and such. >>34969564
Sexy isn't it

>>34969203
It fits under both imo, though it all uses combustion engines rather than boilers so one could argue that it leans towards dieselpunk, however is aesthetically slightly closer to steampunk, so just say both at the same time.

>>34969454
why?
Stalker is an RPG, that game works

>>34969203
Trenchpunk

>>34969100
do want

>>34969009
>I do say, please leave here stalker

>>34969818
I remember using this term when I was starting up a design project

>>34969972
I think it's semi-established, but I cba to do research right now

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>>34969009

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>>34969310
Fucking Tachanka

>>34969229
i like the seagull