Mr Xenocryst wrote to point out a lovely little Flash game called StormWinds from Hero Interactive.  It reminds me a little of the Steampunk setting in the Hungry City Chronicles as you are charged with defending your home in the valley beyond the mountain pass from the hoards of attacking airbourne enemies.  Each level sees you using your bought and maintained weapons to destroy helicopters, airships, blimps, bi-planes, hot air balloons and more.

There’s 25 levels in the basic version, (and may I recommend picking up the machine gun, and then a sniper gun – the cannon is a pain to aim) and some rather tricky levels near the end and a huge boss to defeat once you get there.  It’s not perfect, and I’d love to have been able to work out the ‘levels’ of my various weapons, but it’s definitely dangerous if you’ve got a couple of hours to spare.  Thank you, Mr Xenocryst!

Noticed on BoingBoing today, the most marvellous Chronotheric Fluxing Capacitron, by Flickr user, and Brass Goggles forum member, Absinthetic, is a beautiful creation that just does wonders for Steampunk! Created as as prop to Absinthetic’s 2007 halloween costume as a 19th Century time traveller, this beautiful clock has mysterious energies writhing across its face. Very well done, Mr Absinthetic!  (And thank you, Sinjun for alerting me to the wonders under my very nose!)

AlexCF of Many Dead Things continues to improve, inspire and amaze with his hard-won relics of a time that never was.  Seeing the above case, known as the Lost World Exploration Case, a collection of samples and discoveries from the mysterious lost plateau in the depths of the Amazonian forest, you might be forgiven for forgetting that it’s all fictional; that Professor Challenger actually had found a lost world, where dinosaurs roamed both beautiful and terrible; that what you were seeing wasn’t a brilliantly created prop, as those who would discredit Professor Challenger would have you believe!

For surely the world would be greatly changed by a discovery such as this – such a place of momentous importance would be impossible to keep a secret, despite the paradigm-shifting potential, and as such – it’s best just to think of it as a deviously clever piece of prop work, and not the scientifically detailed, sample packed and documentation filled proof of a place out of time that it appears.

Contains taxidermied Deinonychus with protofeathers, preserved wing of a young Pteranodon, multiple bone samples, maps, diaries, journals and photographs – all from the initial expedition of 1912, again for sale.

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Mr Willbourn of Stentor Industries, raygun and prop-weapon maker of no small repute, has constructed the above Steampunk device for protecting Her Majesty’s new airship division from the burgeoning (and scurrilous) pirate contingent of the lighter than air international traffic.  The Horatio Boarder Repeller is designed for hand use, and fires both a sonic blast for stunning your terribly impolite foes, but a near-impossibly thin harpoon function for really showing your enemies that you refuse to be boarded!  Lovely work, Mr Willbourn!

Well!  It is my great pleasure to pass on to those who might be interested, that the new-Vaudeville group, White Mischief, will be hosting a night of extravagance, delight and debauchery in London on the 10th of November (Saturday).  The night, entitled “From the Earth, to the Moon” takes its inspiration from Steampunk, Verne, HG Wells, gaslight romances and all the other wonderful things that we also enjoy so much.

A night for fun-seeking adults; circus-style performances, live-action silent movies, music of multiple flavours, cabaret and burlesque and (in the most perfect example of a job description to kill for) Edwardian Space Pirates.  Dressing up, and dressing fabulously, strongly encouraged, and there’ll be prizes for those who turn heads the best.  All in all – it sounds delicious and very tempting indeed – though those of a sensitive nature should be warned that the glimpse of an ankle would be the least of your worries!  (Thank you, Mr Tobias and good luck!)

Ms Lyssie Algorithim confesses to being a Doctor Who fan, and I can empathise – while it’s only the most recent Doctors that has really caught my attention (having grown up with the 8th Doctor on my television) I know there’s a lot more to it, and that fans have not so much been transfixed by the show, but inspired in spades.

Above, is the work of DeviantArtist Promus-Kaa, and is one of a series of Steampunk reimaginings of the iconic Doctor Who characters. As well as the above dalek, there’s a cyberman, the highly advanced robotic-dog K-9, and a TARDIS (time machine in the shape of a British police box). Interestingly, he also had a go at an Art-Deco dalek too. Oh, and if you’re curious, apparently the backgrounds for many of these pictures are care of GeneralVyse, who does some impressive WW1 era uniforms and illustrations. Thank you Ms Algorithim and Mr Swinehart!

Mr Handbook, from the forum, has recently revealed his scientific apperatus for the study of aetheric energies on lifeforms – in this case, fish.  Known as the “Aquatic Observation of Channeled Aetheric Energies” or A.O.C.A.E. for short, this mostly spherical construction channels aetheric energies through the venusuan crystal in the chamber at the top and manifests itself to the human eye as a violet-tinted glow.

Of course, the medical applications for such a device will be soon to follow (just as they were for electricity and uranium) but at the moment the aetheric energies refuse to apply their lifegiving properties outwith a watery medium.  No doubt Mr Handbook will triumph, however.

The scientific apperatus is equipped with a magnifying glass, all the better to see the piscine participants within, and with sturdy mechanical graspers for holding extra notes and equipment.  A wonderful device, and I look forward to the bright future that aetheric medicinal applications so obviously have.  (Good goggles, too, Sir.)

The wondrous publication, The Steampunk Magazine, has recently birthed its third issue! Subtitled “The Sky Is Falling”, this issues theme is the apocalypse, and how it might arrive and be dealt with in a Steampunk manner. From what the best parts of a dead car are to scavenge, to what likelihood that cyberpunk staple gray goo has of deconstructing us all, to an impassioned plea to recycle and reuse to avert (or reduce) environmental catastrophe.

In addition, there are very useful looking patterns for making your own spats and aviators helmet (should you make some, do let me know), an article on airships, and interviews with both Alan Moore (he of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic (UK,US) and more) and Doctor Steel – mostly benevolent world-emperor to be (and musician). To top it all off, there is the usual high quality of written fiction to accompany the other more practical texts.

Also, should you be in New York City on the 20th of October, the Dances of Vice cabaret club’s Blue Moon Masquerade Ball will be hosting the official Steampunk Magazine Issue 3 party, with prizes and such for best masquerade costumes. Sounds like a most interesting evening indeed!

The enchantingly named, Dusty Hawthorne, wrote to point out a simply stunning museum in Paris called the Musée des Arts et Métiers – or The Museum of Arts and Trades.  Their ‘virtual museum visit’ in particular is wonderful (if a little flash-based) and has such fantastic categories as Scientific Instruments, Telecommunications, Power and Energy and Transport – with descriptions and images of items categorized into pre-1750′s, 1750′s to 1850′s, 1850′s to 1950′s and post-1950.  So much there from the Victorian era, and will no doubt please the Steampunk fan of brass and cogs. There is a beautiful surfeit of things of brass and wood, and apparently the museum itself is reached through a medieval church with beautiful flying machines (such as the Eole bat-plane above) hanging from intricately carved ceilings.  A visual feast; where beauty and science are dramatically entwined, where history smells of varnish, tarnish and soot, and where three-wheeled steam carriages rest proudly next to hand-cranked cinomatographs.

Thankyou Dusty!  It does look a wonderful place to see.  (If you wish to find the virtual museum, in French, click ‘Collections’ and ‘Discover the Museum’).