Aether and Iron's Worldbuilt Intricacies

Review: Decopunk RPG Aether & Iron Takes New York Into The Sky – Entertainium

In the 1950s, the science fiction writer James Blish had Earth’s metropolises take off into the stars, using anti-gravity devices called “spindizzies”. Developers Seismic Squirrel may have been thinking of Blish’s Cities in Flight series when they came up with Aether & Iron, which is set in an alternate 1930s, “decopunk” New York which floats in the sky and is full of flying cars. This distinctive setting is the main draw for this mixture of tur…

Aether and Iron's Worldbuilt Intricacies

It always begins like this: a slick city office, rain steadily beating on glass windowpanes, a shadowed figure seated at a desk peering out beneath a heavy-brimmed fedora. We all know that noir and noirish films beget a certain aesthetic language, starring what's typically a jaded man torn asunder by the underbelly of his once-beloved city, functioning now as a washed-up PI chasing leads and sweet-talking the ladies. Aether and Iron, developed b…