Sine Mora is a shoot 'em up video game developed by Digital Reality and Grasshopper Manufacture for the Xbox 360, Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita and iOS. It was released on March 21, 2012, for the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade, on November 20, 2012, for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita via the PlayStation Network, on July 16, 2013, for iOS via iTunes Store, as well as Windows, and on August 13, 2013, for the Ouya. The game is a 2.5D shooter; gameplay is restricted to two axes while the environment is rendered in 3D. The setting has been described as diesel punk inspired and features anthropomorphic characters.
Sine Mora is a 2.5D shoot'em up. While the environment and objects are rendered in 3D, gameplay runs along a 2D plane.
The transition from concept art (top) to actual gameplay (bottom) was praised by critics.
Dieselpunk is a retrofuturistic subgenre of science fiction similar to steampunk or cyberpunk that combines the aesthetics of the diesel-based technology of the interwar period through to the 1950s with retro-futuristic technology and postmodern sensibilities. Coined in 2001 by game designer Lewis Pollak to describe his tabletop role-playing game Children of the Sun, the term has since been applied to a variety of visual art, music, motion pictures, fiction, and engineering.
An example of dieselpunk art
