It features some of the most important technologies of the Victorian era such as steam-powered machines, clockwork, and other industrial and electrical machinery.
Contents What is dieselpunk? Some common recurring themes Some famous dieselpunk works Difference between Steampunk and Dieselpunk. The movie portraits a dark self-destructed human world based on over-industrialization and militarization. To quickly summarize: Steampunk usually portraits a clean world that is about to happen. Dieselpunk shows a world that is destructing itself. Great explanation on the difference between dieselpunk and steampunk!
I was very confused between the two. New Arrivals. Women Coats Corsets Vests. Men Coats Vests. New Arrivals Sales. The vapour driven slots take you on a ride to the alternative 19 th -century Victorian era, and it involves titles with sci-fi, fantasy, steam-powered machinery and artillery.
You can travel back to the future through these amazing and retrofuturistic titles from leading software suppliers. Some of the popular slot titles with this theme are:.
It is only the 10 th title released by this gaming provider and is based on the oil derivative and war theme. Many other titles feature the World Wars as their base theme and hence has an inclination to the oil-powered derivative theme. Some of the top games under this genre include:. One of the major differences is in the era on which these two popular genres are based. While vapour based titles have a liking to the 19 th -century Victorian period, the technology-based titles belong to the World Wars era.
The Steampunk uses steam, and the other one uses oil. The other major difference between these two rivals is their attitude towards technology. They give due importance to brass-based technology and hence have subdued and dull game settings. The game settings of the oil-powered and technologically driven genres are inspired by World War I, II periods.
This is why you come across horrific and optimistic sci-fi games under this category. These video titles are very popular in recent times, as many prefer to go with the modernity than the classic look and touch. The technology used in these genres showcases major change from the Industrial Age to the Machine Age.
It is not just different in the fuel, but also in the attitude. There is no doubt that the online gaming world is flooded with a wide variety of titles in both the Steampunk and Dieselpunk categories. While some prefer the old school Victorian type rustic titles, there are others who like to play modern and technology-driven games. Our collective awareness is steeped in these things. But WWI created such a profound change as to reach Metaphysical dimensions.
And that War, in which all sides behaved monstrously out of the sheer necessity of survival, is the one shaped our modern world view and therefore created a psycho-cultural distance from the Pre-WWI mindset that is almost unbridgeable.
It does however, as I proposed above, give us a very clear dividing line between the two genres. I firmly believe that in any discussion of the relative outlooks of Steampunk and Dieselpunk one must, at the very least, pay attention to which side of the Latin Bridge ones outlook actually originates.
I'm more than happy to do that, discussion is good! I do find the whole concept interesting, as I do most alternate reality concepts. I also like to understand what prompts people's immersion or acceptance of them too though.
I think Nebris is quite correct. The Great War provides a very real dividing line between the two genres. The effects of the Great War were profound and very understated, it shaped, in various ways, the thought processes and vision of a whole generation - depending on where you were. France's and Belgium's experience of the War were different to England's and Germany's, and America's was different to all of them, and this was to effect each's vision of what was to come.
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