The new tech, time traveling, and Plumbot-making couldn't go any better with inventors and steampunk fans! Just know I am re-coloring allthat silver and white to coppers, golds, and corroded metals. I did want to mention to the Store team's growth and evolution I am stunned and amazed bi-monthly, and am more excited about store worlds with the upcoming Midnight Hollow than the EPs! That’s not to say I’m not going ga-ga for Into the Future.
I even did a makeshift golden compass on the bridge of the ship. I liked using the World Adventures barrels,baskets and nectar racks. Houseboat: The Golden Compass, this is my first houseboat and I hadn't done a Steampunk build for a while.
Sure I had a few sets with the free Sim points from registering, but this was serious collector mode now. Then I started investing in The Sims 3 store worlds. By the holidays I bought up almost every EP/SP and have pre-ordered everything since. Supernatural had so many Victorian-styled items that I was hooked. I knew I was going to invest in The Sims 3. It was when I saw the Supernatural poster, that was it. I’ve been playing with The Sims 3 for less than a year, but I have been with The Sims franchise since the beginning. Right in the middle are middle and working class Victorian-esque, eccentric, DaVinici like apprentices (inventors, artists, writers, musicians and sculptors - all skills available in The Sims 3) and a steam powered - Tesla enthusiast core.And you can turn it up or down on how eccentric like it. You have enough luxuries like indoor plumbing and some electricity while still being distant enough from the modern world to add an air of the exotic and adventurous.Steampunk is where the high end of a world could be aristocratic, Art Nouveau and/or Rococo, and the same world could have slums where you have unpolished woods or cozy peasant homes or gypsy hovels with mismatched treasures and colors. In steampunk you can have a hand-stitched fantasy without feeling like you’re trapped in a western-suburban modern-normal world. Top hats, pocket watches, mixed patterns, artistic and eccentric,with a bit of show time magician-eque feel. Sim: Sen Clockwork, This Sim is what I think an Alice and Mad Hatterhybrid would be. It was when I discovered the steampunk subculture that I found the only way you can have a multi-era, multi-cultureand multi-tech world and have it work! This subculture finally made sense to me and I knew what it was! Then it narrowed abit when I discovered fantasy films like Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind,Castle in the Sky and Spirited Away. I also enjoyed cyberpunk tales such as Bladerunner.It was dark and different and definitely not for everyone. They included apocalyptic and dystopian worlds depending where people would hold onto scraps of the pre-apocalypse world. My first hints of truly discovering and understanding steampunk were glimpses from some of my favorite movies. Combine my two great loves and you get steam-based technology with some early electricity along with the clothes and mannerisms of the Victorian era added and I think you understand why steampunk appeals to me. As a big fan and viewer of various adaptations of Sherlock Holmes, especially the UK ones, which were set in actual Victorian areas and showed off the era’s buildings and fashions, that’s also one of my favorite eras. I was from here that I noticed that the natural progression of science fiction seemed to start with steampunk and the time it seems wedded to - the Victorian era.
In our house was a copy of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, a massive book that included time lines,major authors, novels, pulp fiction, TV series and films, etc. I was more or less raised on fantasy and science fiction.
I was always a fan of steampunk - even before I knew what steampunk was.