Comments on: Jesse van Dijk’s Vertical Seaside City

By: 5 Cool Sites for Inspiration - Gnome Stew, the Game Mastering Blog

5 Cool Sites for Inspiration - Gnome Stew, the Game Mastering Blog — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:02:59 +0000

[...] where you want to slip it in. Just on the first page (as of the time this was written), they have a vertical city, a mechanical steed and some character portraits (some links in that post may lead to NSFW artwork, [...]

By: Nightfall

Nightfall — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:01:41 +0000

I love this. What’s weird is that I had this same exact city in a dream of mine about a month ago, only it was flooded and the water was inhabited by sea monsters. Anyway, the art is fantastic (which, of course, should be expected of a fantasy realm).

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:01:56 +0000

I love it. Absolutely. You see, I've dreamed of this place for a very long time. A city in the sea, sunken into a crater, but dry inside- only a tall shell holding back the sea, in the most remote corner of the ocean, far from anything else. I want to live there. I would kill for an RPG of this land just to indulge finally in what I dream about daily.

Having said this, the closest thing was "Autopia Ampere", a REAL artificial city being built RIGHT NOW, in the middle of the Mediterranean sea. It looks like a giant nautilus, so nothing like this, but it's real. It showed up on the Kircher Society's page a while ago, check it out.

By: BungaDunga

BungaDunga — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:03:38 +0000

In “The Merlin Conspiracy” (an excellent piece of non-steampunk fantasy) there’s a world which is like this, but opposite. That is, the sun is very much more powerful and everyone lives in cities carved in the sides of canyons to keep out of the sun. The poor all live on top and get to soak up all the lovely radiation and thus have a terrible life expectancy.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:36:14 +0000

Haven’t seen an update in a while.. hope everything is ok.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:12:09 +0000

I find the lack of construction in the crater wll and on the ring shores up top to take away from this project a lot – it seems very unrealistic/too fantastical for them to have given up all that dry building space just to exclusively build on the cooler looking pillar – If they had started anywhere, it would have been in the wall (much easier engineering). The idea and presentation is amazing otherwise, though.

By: Cookie

Cookie — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:54:29 +0000

...I want to live there.

so cool

By: Jay.Mac

Jay.Mac — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:49:46 +0000

OT – Thought this would be of interest to your site.

“Otlet’s proto-Web relied on a patchwork of analog technologies like index cards and telegraph machines, it nonetheless anticipated the hyperlinked structure of today’s Web. “This was a Steampunk version of hypertext,” said Kevin Kelly, former editor of Wired, who is writing a book about the future of technology.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/science/17mund.html?_r=2&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

By: Animus Aqualis

Animus Aqualis — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:30:00 +0000

Can’t do else but to say: Hup Holland Hup! Laat de leeuw niet in zijn hempie staan!

By: IncredibleGeek

IncredibleGeek — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:22:41 +0000

That last piece on the page makes me think of Dinotopia.

But that's unrelated to how awesome this is.