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| '''Children of the Sun''' is a ] created by the now defunct ], Inc. in 2002. Built using the original setting of Krace, an island of giant, supernaturally tough trees, it was part of a generation of ] settings that appeared beginning in the late nineties (although the creator characterized the game as '''dieselpunk'''). Most notable about the game was its original system, the Token System, which allowed the player to use a token to determine initiative and interrupt other character's turns. | '''Children of the Sun''' is a ] created by the now defunct ], Inc. in 2002. Built using the original setting of Krace, an island of giant, supernaturally tough trees, it was part of a generation of ] settings that appeared beginning in the late nineties (although the creator characterized the game as '''dieselpunk'''). Most notable about the game was its original system, the Token System, which allowed the player to use a token to determine initiative and interrupt other character's turns. | ||
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Children of the Sun is a role-playing game created by the now defunct Misguided Games, Inc. in 2002. Built using the original setting of Krace, an island of giant, supernaturally tough trees, it was part of a generation of steampunk settings that appeared beginning in the late nineties (although the creator characterized the game as dieselpunk). Most notable about the game was its original system, the Token System, which allowed the player to use a token to determine initiative and interrupt other character's turns.
Dieselpunk is a neologism which is shorthand to describe a fantasy society with an industrial level of development, informed by Cyberpunk senibilities. This concept became the foundation of the RPG computer game Children of the Sun. The term, coined by game designers Lewis Pollak and Dan Ross, was used to help market said game. Dieselpunk is an alternate-history environment in which the most important aspect of society is diesel fuel, and the machinery that depends upon it. It has been noted that the distinguishing characeristics of a dieselpunk world as explained by Lewis Pollak: "... a world of grit and oil, dust and mud, also is one in which magic and technology are combined. Dieselpunk is the darker, dirtier side of steampunk."
Dieselpunk, is a trademark of Misguided Games, Inc. d20 System is a trademark of Wizards of the Coast, Inc.
Further developments
Recently the term has been employed by fans of the role-playing game and literary punk genres: steampunk and cyberpunk as well as alterantive science-fiction with other Noir fiction tendencies to define a speculative world that exists in a post-Steampunk environment that has further developed machine-technology related to diesel resources.
Source
Pollak, Lewis; Evolution of Dieselpunk, The; Game Trade Magazine #30 (Aug 2002)
See also
External links
- Children of the Sun - Misguided Games' (Official site) for the Dieselpunk™ Fantasy Role-Playing Game
- GameReport.com Interview with Lewis Pollak about Children of the Sun
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