Airships: Conquer the Skies: worldbuilding
- Calendars, Moons, Festivals, Heresies
An Airships Lore Dump
- Better Explosions
In between major releases of Airships, I like to work on things that don't require deep changes to the game's code but make the whole experience better. For version 7.2, I want to make the combat feel more visceral, which of course mainly means one thing: better explosions.
- Concepts and Videos
- On Suspendium
Suspendium crystals are what keep the airships aloft. How do they work? I mean, obviously they're fictional, but it's nice to have consistent rules in your fiction. As you'll see, thinking about the rules of Suspendium leads to a whole bunch of worldbuilding as a consequence.
- Lighter-than-airThe airships in my game are held aloft by Suspendium, a made-up crystal that when electrically charged pulls against gravity (or something). That's partially because the game's influences are Howl's Moving Castle and early ironclads. But I also have a pet peeve: helium and hydrogen produce really very little lift.
- Heraldry
I always thought it'd be cool to be able to create your own coat of arms in a game. With Airships, this makes a fair amount of sense, as you play as one potential empire in a late-19th-century-esque setting.
- Crowdsourced ship namesYou came up with a whole bunch of excellent new ship names, which I have added to the list. Having lots of names is important, because ideally, ships of the same class should have names that start with the same letter.