Почему ранний доступ?

«Cozy Burg already plays as a complete, relaxing builder. But it's a real simulation underneath, and a simulation only gets good when lots of players build towns I'd never think of. Early Access lets me harden the sim against the layouts you come up with, tune the balance between cozy and busy with real feedback, and pick what to build next with you instead of guessing. I'd rather grow this in the open with you.»

Сколько примерно эта игра будет в раннем доступе?

«Around 1 to 6 months. It's just me, so I'd rather hit the bar than hit a date. If a feature needs more time to get right, it gets it. Updates land regularly the whole way, not all at the end. (Bus lines, for instance, went from planned to shipped during development. That's the pace I'm aiming for.)»

Чем планируемая полная версия будет отличаться от версии в раннем доступе?

«The Early Access game is the whole loop. 1.0 adds more on top. Planned: weather (rain and snow), rail and other new transit types, more landmarks and terrain biomes, a broader campaign with new objective types, a fuller set of achievements, more life in the streets, and a balance pass shaped by Early Access play. The roadmap has the current plan, and it will move around based on your feedback.»

Каково текущее состояние версии в раннем доступе?

«Fully playable and stable. Right now you can:

Build a town people actually want to live in. Homes only fill when the street is somewhere worth living and the people in them can reach a job. You build from a hand of three cards, a land card, a zone card and a road card, so there's always a choice and never a menu. Some cards place one tile, some place up to four. You get a few free redraws, after that a redraw costs a card.
Shape the land: grassland, forest, mountain and water, raised through several levels of elevation.
Zone homes, offices, industry, shops, farms and parks, none of which thrive until you connect them by road. Play the same zone card on a tile again to upgrade it.
Watch a genuine traffic simulation. Every car is given a real origin and destination, follows the car in front, yields at junctions, queues when the lane ahead is full, and re-routes mid-trip when it finds a better way. Flip on the traffic lens and every road tints green, amber or red by how loaded it is.
Draw bus lines by dragging stop to stop, colour them, assign buses from your pool, and watch riders who'd otherwise be cars climb aboard.
Run ferries that navigate the real shape of the water and carry cars across it.
Earn landmarks by building: a big lake on the shore unlocks the lighthouse, a big mountain range unlocks a ski resort with a working chairlift, a level 3 road and a running bus line unlock a stadium that fills with fans on match day, and 500 residents unlock the airport. A castle, a national park and a volcano are in there too.
Play it two ways: Living Town, where you earn every resident, and Creative, unlocked end to end from the first click.
Pick Gentle, Standard or Demanding. Every town level has a goal and a card budget. Gentle always gives you another go when the cards run out, Standard gives you one, Demanding none.
Or take the Journey, a tutorial and five small custom levels, each about a single idea, with a scripted camera fly over each new problem.
Play three two-minute games: fishing, taxi, and Raccoon Raid as Timothy the raccoon. They're optional and they pay out cards if you do well.
Chase quests, open reward chests, level up your town, and raise your Cozy / Flow / Bliss score.
Earn terrain styles across grass, forest, water and mountain, and apply them to a single tile or a whole section.
Watch the Town Film, a replay of your town growing from its first tile.
Enjoy a lively little world with farms that grow and get harvested, shoppers, dog-walkers, horses, birds, fish, sailboats, and animal homes for wild horses, sheep, bears, sea turtles and hawks.
Save to any of six slots plus an autosave, shown as a shelf of postcards, with resolution, fullscreen, audio and quality settings.
Listen to a soundtrack the game generates live. Nothing sampled, nothing licensed, no loop you'll recognise.

What's not in yet: weather, rail and further transit types, more biomes and landmarks, a fuller achievement set, and final balance tuning. That's what Early Access is for. There will be rough edges; please report them and they'll get fixed fast.»

Изменится ли цена игры после выхода из раннего доступа?

«Yes. I plan to raise the price a bit at 1.0, as the game grows through Early Access. If you buy during Early Access you keep the game, no upgrade fee. There are no microtransactions, no energy timers, and no ads, ever. Buy it once and it's yours.»

Как вы планируете вовлекать сообщество в разработку игры?

«The roadmap lives in the Steam community hub, and the order of everything past "Next up" is genuinely up to you. Vote and discuss it there. Bug reports go straight to the top of the list; the sim especially gets better the more unusual layouts I see. I read everything, and I'll post what's changing each update.»