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Message: <blockquote data-quote="malladin" data-source="post: 1409099" data-attributes="member: 8230">Actually, we're not calling Etherscope 'Steampunk'.  Not that it has much difference in meaning, we're actually calling it 'Victoriana Cyberpunk'.   It probably counts as a subgenre, but there is a key difference here: most 'Steampunk' operates in a world where the world doesn't deviate too far from a vitorian period of history and the tech tends not to be higher than analogues to present day technology.  With Etherscope we've wanted to go for a game that has a feel of modern cyberpunk novels in a victoriana setting.  We wanted analogues of net running and cyberware that you don't often see in true steampunk.  Not that means we're not sticking true to the victoriana themes to - I think we've managed to really successfully intertwine these two concepts into something that is very different to anything else out there (particularly when we add in a whole cthulu element too <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ).  Ask Carnifex; he's seen our working documents (btw Chris, I've sent you an email). Cheerio, Ben, Malladin's Gate</blockquote>