The Traveler's Steampunk Blog

Traveler | 11. Juni 2013

This looks pretty good in deed! Head-tip to Clockworker.de for posting it before and thus bringing the trailer to my attention.  

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Tags: PS4, The Order 1886

Traveler | 2. Juni 2013

2013 is my 25th year as a role player. I started with D&D and various solo role-playing games. The very first solo adventure book I bought was Flight from the Dark by Joe Dever, the first book of the long-running Lone Wolf series. I became and still am a massive Lone Wolf fan, I actually [...]

Category: Games, History, Tales of the travelling steampunk | No Comments »
Tags: Fanboy, Joe Dever, Lone Wolf, Role Playing Games

Traveler | 19. Mai 2013

1993 was a significant year for me. For one, I finished school and started an ill-fated and luckily short-lived sojourn into banking. More importantly, I discovered this game, which quickly became my favourite. The Chaos Engine. A game that enthralled me from the first time I saw it. I played it for hours on end at a [...]

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Traveler | 7. März 2013

Please enjoy this little animation:

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Tags: Doctor Who, fun

Traveler | 5. März 2013

A new incarnation of the Horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos is coming your way: Please support the project and do it here! It will be worth it, just look at the quality of the artwork:

Category: Cthulhu Mythos, Cthulhuiana, Games, Steampunk | No Comments »
Tags: Kickstarter, Steampunk Cthulhu

Traveler | 19. Februar 2013

Three cheers for an awesome game and the permeation of steampunk into popular culture and consciousness! The Kingdom of Loathing, simply the best low-tech, crappy graphics satirical game in the history of forever has come up with a Steampunked monster class: The Steampunk Giant, a new encounter and inhabitant of The Castle in the Clouds [...]

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Tags: The Kingdom of Loathing

Traveler | 7. Februar 2013

A group of independent game developers, Wrought Iron Games, is currently working on a wonderful old school 8-Bit adventure game. The protagonist is none other than Edgar Allen Poe himself. He is on a mission in an alternate version of London to save his wife from Jack the Ripper. If the last two sentences do [...]

Category: Games, Literature, Steampunk | 2 Comments »
Tags: Edgar Allan Poe, Wrought Iron Games

Traveler | 12. Januar 2013

Looking good: Only bad thing: I guess I need a new computer to run this one. Find out more about this upcoming game here: Cyberpunk.net I have played the role playing game Cyberpunk 2077 is based on. To say I am looking forward to the release of Cyberpunk 2077 would be a massive understatement.

Category: Cyberpunk, Games | No Comments »
Tags: CD Projekt RED S. A., Cyberpunk 2077

Traveler | 2. Januar 2013

My friends over at the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences have some exciting news to tell: Their story, universe and all will be turned into a role playing game, so you, too, yes you, can become an agent for the Ministry. The game is still in development but you can find out more about it here. [...]

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Tags: The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences

Traveler | 29. Dezember 2012

The 2013 New Year Honour List of Queen Elisabeth II is a great one for nerds and geeks everywhere! Among the laureates are: Professor Higgs, who predicted the boson which bears his name  is now a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour and (and this is even more splendid): Ian Livingstone, yes, Ian “Fighting [...]

Category: Games, Science | 1 Comment »
Tags: Fighting Fantasy, Higgs Boson, Ian Livingstone, New Year's Honours, Peter Higgs