Proč předběžný přístup?

„Milesyon is far from finished, and I would rather write that plainly than let you find out.

You can play it end to end today, from 1978 to 2026, and there is already a lot of game there. But what Milesyon has to become is far larger than what you would download this week. What's missing isn't polish:

THE INDUSTRY ISN'T PLAYABLE. Hardware makers, silicon, shareholders, rival studios: right now they are forces that land on you, not things you manoeuvre. That's an entire half of the game that doesn't exist yet.

THE BALANCE ISN'T SETTLED. Forty-eight years of economic simulation can't be calibrated in a garage. It takes thousands of runs, and I will never play enough of them alone.

THE BOOK IS A FIRST GENERATION. It already tells your run; it has to learn to tell it far better.

MODDING IS RUDIMENTARY. Scripts and shaders are open, but you can't yet write your own eras, platforms or rules.

WHOLE STRETCHES OF HISTORY REMAIN TO BE WRITTEN. Events, machines, movements, period texture: the journey works, but it needs to be much denser.

I could spend three years alone deciding all of this. It would be a mistake. The subject of this game is an industry many people lived through, and often know better than I do.

Above all, there's one choice I don't want to make alone: should the game go down into the workshop - founders who age, teams that remember, the human cost of decisions - or up into the industry - designing chips, launching machines, facing down capital? Both appeal to me, they don't produce the same game, and one person can't build them at once.

That's why I'm opening Early Access: an unfinished game, owned as such, with the remaining decisions made together with the people who play it.“

Přibližně jak dlouho bude tato hra v předběžném přístupu?

„18 to 24 months.

It's long because a lot is left to do, and because I'm doing it alone. Designing a major system, opening it to discussion, making it playable, then reworking it in the light of real runs takes months - and there are several to build.

I would rather state a realistic duration and keep it than a short date that would force me to settle, in a hurry and by myself, the very questions Early Access is meant to open. If the community steers the game toward a more ambitious build, I'll say so openly rather than cut corners on it.“

Jak se bude plná verze lišit od předběžného přístupu?

„The full version will be a substantially larger game than today's.

Early Access gives you the 1978-2026 journey from the studio's side: found it, hire, design, ship, survive, with the Book at the end.

The full version has to add the industry itself, a markedly deeper simulation, and the means to extend the game well beyond what I'll write myself. The intended work, whose order and scope will be decided during Early Access:

SILICON. Designing your chips and your machines, trading off performance, cost and yield, protecting your inventions, and living with the consequences for twenty years.

RIVALS ON EQUAL TERMS. Giving opposing studios your levers - fans, reputation, visibility - instead of separate rules.

STUDIOS WITH PEOPLE IN THEM. Founders who age, hand over or cling on; a talent market where poaching costs something, in both directions.

CAPITAL AGAINST THE WORKSHOP. Shareholders who demand, boards that push back, hostile takeovers, a banker sitting across from you.

A DENSER HISTORY. More events, machines and movements, and balance reworked against thousands of real runs.

A GAME OTHERS EXTEND. Modding that lets you write your own eras, platforms and rules, so Milesyon becomes a foundation rather than a closed game.

None of this is promised in that order: it is precisely what we're going to debate.“

V jaké fázi vývoje se hra nachází?

„The game is playable end to end, with no gaps, from 1978 to 2026: studio and market simulation, teams, research, platforms appearing and disappearing, rivals, crises. The Book is written and illustrated locally at the end of a run. All 50 achievements are in, the game is translated into 15 languages and runs entirely offline.

In other words: there is plenty to play, right now.

But it isn't finished, and it shouldn't be bought as if it were. The industry isn't playable yet, the balance across 48 years still has to be proven over a great many runs, the Book is a first generation, modding is limited, and the historical density has a long way to grow. Some of those pieces will change how the game is played, not just how it is won.

Buy it if the current state is already enough for you and if the idea of shaping what comes next appeals to you. Otherwise, wait - I'll completely understand.“

Změní se cena hry po skončení předběžného přístupu?

„Yes, moderately, when the full version releases: the game will contain an entire half that doesn't exist today.

Early Access players will have paid the lowest price it will ever have, and will owe nothing further. Today's price is for today's game, not for tomorrow's promises.“

Jak plánujete zapojit komunitu do vývoje této hry?

„By deciding, not by reporting.

Every major direction will follow the same path, in the open: a written proposal with its alternatives, an open discussion on the Steam forums, a decision that is made and explained, then a playable beta branch before anything is integrated - or dropped, if the attempt convinces no one.

And there's the run code. Because the world is deterministic, a handful of characters is enough to hand me your exact world, bit for bit. So a code isn't a bug report: it's an argument. "Here's a run where the industry felt dead after 1997" carries further than a long message, because I can open that world, live in it, and discuss what ought to be added to it.

That's how it will be decided what Milesyon becomes: on worlds we have both seen.“