A company called OneSevenDesign is giving away a free steampunk RPG to anyone who’s interested. Called Lady Blackbird, the game centers around the title character and her adventures aboard The Owl ship.
Sounds great! You can download the PDF instructions here:
Lady Blackbird is a steampunk adventure module for 2-6 people. It contains a starting situation, setting, pregen characters, and quick-play rules perfect for a no-prep game of 1-6 sessions or more.
Lady Blackbird is on the run from an arranged marriage to Count Carlowe. She hired a smuggler skyship, The Owl, to take her from her palace on the Imperial world of Ilysium to the far reaches of the Remnants, so she could be with her once secret lover: the pirate king Uriah Flint.
HOWEVER, just before reaching the halfway point of Haven, The Owl was pursued and captured by the Imperial cruiser Hand of Sorrow, under charges of flying a false flag.
How will Lady Blackbird and the others escape the Hand of Sorrow?
If you own an iPhone, you can now download Backlash, a steampunk game! From what I can tell, it looks like Steampunk Pinball. Sounds like a great way to pass the time for only a dollar.
Flick a ball through 40 levels of a giant machine in a unique steampunk inspired puzzle experience.
Use your wits in combination with pieces of the machine that speed you up, slow you down or blow you clear across a level as you guide the ball through the depths of the machine.
Backlash features a highly-detailed environment, challenging levels, crisp artwork and realistic artwork wrapped in a challenging single-player experience. Try to outsmart the machine’s internal security system as you figure out the least amount of bounces to the goal in Challenge Mode or learn the levels at your own pace and have fun messing around in the aptly named Free Play.
Original game music graciously provided by Chemtrail
Features:
1. 40 Unique Levels
2. Challenge Mode with cumulative scoring
3. Free Play
4. Realistic ball physics
5. Unique steampunk environment
6. Music by Chemtrail
Here’s a fun Second Life video to celebrate this joyous day, made by Lokiboy.
Steam Santa visits New Babbage, the virtual steampunk world in Second Life. Watch as Santa flies in on his steam rocket sleigh! This video also shows the wonderful sims in New Babbage, which boasts quite an impressive design and looks like a great place to visit. Well done, Lokiboy!
The Steam Century Mystery is a multifaceted game that combines elements of live action role-playing and crime dramas. Players follow a trail of clues by investigating rooms and interacting with costumed characters. This game is a cross between the How to Host a Murder games and a more traditional Live Action Role Playing Game.
Our mystery events are role playing games in the sense that we, the cast, stay in character. Players are invited to play in character with us at their comfort level. Some of our fans have more concrete steampunk characters they developed so they can “live” in our world with us. We also have players who just play the game to solve the mystery and the puzzles and don’t worry about pretending to be any kind of character.
This sounds like a blast, what a fun group of people.
Here are a few teaser photos of the upcoming event. So be sure to grab your steampunk costume and get ready to solve a mystery!
A new browser-based video game should be released any very soon from Muse Games, called Guns of Icarus.
With tagline, “This is not the future I expected,” the player controls a steampunk airship and shoots down other airships and planes while performing missions. Looks pretty fun!
The video trailer says, “Play it Oct. 12″ but it has not yet been released on Muse’s site, which only states “Coming in October.” So I expect this game to be available at any time.
Here’s an exciting look at the concept art for Disney’s upcoming steampunk Wii game, codenamed Epic Mickey. This looks really dark and gritty, I’m so surprised Disney is behind this. But the artwork is absolutely fabulous, and I’m sure this game will be a huge hit.
No word on a street date yet, but I’ll keep my goggles peeled for any upcoming news.
