Traveler | 19. April 2012
This part of the travel log is particularly hard to begin. I have actually deleted and rewritten the first paragraph several times by now. So what I am doing now is just writing along to get into the flow. When I made my way to Prague, I knew I would have a short night. The [...]
Category: Event, Games, Steampunk, Tales of the travelling steampunk |
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Tags: Arkham Horror, Prague, SteamUp Festival
Traveler | 17. April 2012
Bethesda has created a little jewel here, I think: People who looked at this item also looked at… Possibly rated R The European Steampunk Convention Fundraiser! Help! 20 Days left! Super Mario goes Steampunk Steampunk on Tumblr and The Dark Side Review: Carnal Machines – Steampunk Erotica Related items SteamUp Festival Vol. III Travel [...]
Category: Games, Steampunk |
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Tags: Bethesda, Dishonored
Traveler | 11. April 2012
Now this is something genuinely beautiful and inspired. A Super Mario themed Steampunk Cosplay: There is more cosplay and related photography in Ashley Anderson’s gallery on DeviantArt. I think Steampunk and Super Mario combines rather well. For one thing, Mario is a plumber, a craftsman with a rather dirty and gritty job and he has [...]
Category: Games, History, Steampunk, Technomantic Stuff |
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Tags: Cosplay, Deviant Art, Princess Peach, Super Mario
Traveler | 31. März 2012
Today’s post is brought to you by a good friend of mine back from the glory days when I was still living in Nottingham. I am quite a history buff but due to the vastness of the field, I concentrate on European and African history with a little bit of far east sprinkled in. The [...]
Category: Games, Steampunk |
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Tags: Alternative History, American Civil War
Traveler | 19. März 2012
Back in the mid 1990′s my brother and me ran a Call of Cthulhu game . As far as I am aware of, he is still doing it occasionally, the last time I ran a game must be three or four years ago, now. A Call of Cthulhu game, that is. One of the more [...]
Category: Cthulhu Mythos, Games |
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Tags: Call of Cthulhu, Dead Space, fun
Traveler | 19. Februar 2012
This is one of the proudest moments in the history of this blog. Andy Frankham-Allen, Editor/Author @ Untreed Reads Publishing, Cardiff Office and responsible for the Space: 1889 & Beyond series of novels arranged an interview with Frank Chadwick, creator of the original Space:1889 role playing game and founder of Games Designers Workshop, for me. So, [...]
Category: Games, Interview, Literature, Steampunk |
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Tags: Frank Chadwick, Games Designers Workshop, GDW, Space 1889, Space 1889 & Beyond
Traveler | 31. Januar 2012
Oh well, I should have known, since I am taking a vacation at one of the centers of cult activity around the globe… Anyway, yesterday evening a few local folks and me were sitting around a table in the lobby of the Gilman House and one of them brought the following to my attention: [...]
Category: Cthulhu Mythos, Cthulhuiana, Games |
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Tags: Cthulhu Mythos, iPad, iPhone, iPod
Traveler | 31. Oktober 2011
Halloween is upon us and for this reason I am blatantly going to steal my friend Hilde’s design she posted over at the Gatehouse blog, but before, here comes the cultist: Halloween is, according to the holy and wholesome writ of the Great Prophet Howard, one of the most important festivals of the Cult of [...]
Category: Cthulhu Mythos, Cthulhuiana, Games |
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Tags: Cthulhu, fun, Games, Halloween, Video
Traveler | 22. Oktober 2011
Yesterday, an old friend who happened to be in the area payed my little family a visit. Time was once again far too short… Ah well, there will be another CaveCon and we will surely meet again. The reason I am telling you this: He brought my attention to Guild Wars 2, and MMO I [...]
Category: Art, Games, Steampunk, Technomantic Stuff |
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Tags: game, Guild Wars 2, MMO, MMORPG
Traveler | 26. August 2011
Who would have thought it… I am posting an update concerning Steampunk and Furries… The ætherweb really has information on everything… Well, I asked for information about Steampunk and Furries, in case someone could prove me wrong on my previous assertion that there is not too much overlap and guess what happened? The esteemed Mr. [...]
Category: Games, Steampunk, Tales of the travelling steampunk, Technomantic Stuff |
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Tags: Furry, Games, PlayStation, Vintage Future, Ætherweb