DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP

Below you'll see what we expect to include in every update. Everything you see is subject to change.
All dates are estimates. Content of each release might change over time.

New suggestions can be submitted and voted for on the Big Ambitions forum.

UPCOMING UPDATES

Early Access 0.4 Estimated December 2023

  • Not yet announced

RELEASED UPDATES

Early Access 0.3 August 2023

  • New Business Type: Nightclub
  • Billboards: Increase chance of seeing player ads
  • New Vehicle: Electric scooters
  • Market Simulation: Increase impact of demands
  • New Business Type: Hairdresser
  • City Atmosphere: Adding pedestrian events to all neighborhoods
  • New feature: Interior blueprints (copy/paste)
  • New feature: Theft and security
  • Employees: Revised recruitment/hiring system
  • Placement System: Vertical placement
  • New furniture: Modular shelves
  • New product type: Ice cream
  • New furniture: Dynamic hanging signs
  • Improvements to armature and animations

Early Access 0.2 May 2023

  • New Business Type: Fruit and vegetable store
  • New Business Type: Graphic designer
  • New Items: Chairs, tables, barriers, counters, shelves and more!
  • New Happiness Booster: Added Fitness/Gym
  • Options: Add game speed variable
  • Options: Added new key bindings for vehicle reverse camera, help system window, feedback window, quicksave and map
  • Options: Added option to drive the car with the mouse
  • Product Balancing: expensive gifts, cheap jewelry, expensive jewelry, all clothing
  • Updated Layouts: Jensen Capital, Gas Station, McCain’s eMarketing, IRS, Vantander Bank, City Ads, Manhattan Luxury Cars, General US Trucks, Manhattan Business School
  • Donuts: Changed Donuts producer from Industrial Fryer Machine to Bakery Showcase
  • Paper bags: Single paper bags can now be placed above tables
  • Ika Bohag desktops: Now use standard tables instead of office desks
  • POS update: Allow buying products in player owned businesses
  • Employees: Benefits program
  • Radio: Local mp3 files support
  • Casino Exploit: Disabled saving on Casino Boat
  • Camera: Improve the experience when buildings are blocking player vision
  • Story Mode: Revised progression and flow
  • Story Mode: Allow quitting story at any time
  • Help System: Adding pages for missing products
  • UI: Improved and optimized notification list window
  • UI: Optimize spacing for all languages
  • UI: Added 'Cancel' button to bank dialog
  • UI: Added 'no businesses' dialog to Recruitment Agents
  • UI: Added specific transaction label for furniture delivery refund
  • UI: Improve double save-button in Bizman Settings
  • UI: Add Logistics Manager table sorting
  • UI: Add Purchasing Agent table sorting
  • UI: Revise/simplify Purchasing Agent UI
  • Bizman Schedule: Automatically activating Monday-Friday from 8:00 - 16:00 by default
  • Traffic AI: Leave space for players trying to parallel park
  • Customer AI: Behavior and queue-system improvements
  • Customer AI: Improved restaurant booth to handle up to 4 customers
  • Improved Characters: more variations
  • Improved Characters: Improved item attachments visualization
  • Improved Characters: Fixed gender not being localized in employee candidates
  • Improved Characters: Fixed gender of AI businesses employees not randomizing
  • Performance: Fix fps dropping when inside or close to park(s)
  • Performance: Increase performance of pedestrians/customers
  • Performance: Added low detail city map setting
  • Performance: Steam Deck optimization
  • Customer Satisfaction: Expand interior variables

Early Access 0.1 March 2023

  • Performance improvements
  • New color picker + Hex input
  • More and optimized pedestrians
  • Minimum PC specifications warning
  • Quality of life improvements
  • Changing player clothing in apartments
  • Final testing/preparations
  • Video trailer for Early Access release
  • Steam Early Access release 🥳

Beta 9 February 2023

  • Underground garages for high-end apartments and offices
  • Customer demands
  • Purchasable boats & yachts (not sailable)
  • New Uncle Fred objectives
  • End game: Doctor's appointment
  • Hiding pedestrians when hit by traffic
  • Death and end of game
  • Welcome screen/language selector
  • Steam Achievements
  • Auto-run/follow the mouse feature
  • Improve indoor lighting, reflections and shadows

Beta 8 December 2022

  • Customizable jpgs for business logos
  • Customizable employee uniforms
  • Customizable furniture colors
  • Warehouses rentes out by AI
  • Handtruck station (allows changing location)
  • Added prices to Interior Designer
  • Added negative interest rates
  • Improved walking animation/speed
  • Revised marketing
  • Watch TV feature
  • Performance improved city map
  • Improved customer AI: Sit down at tables and eat + general shopping behavior
  • Improved employee AI: Added animations when using appliances
  • Expanded customer AI: Added animation for using garbage bins
  • New items: indoor plants, large sofa split into 2, restaurant booth, gaming chair and Scorpio gaming setup
  • Improved animation when exhausted
  • Added faint animation when player collapse from exhaustion
  • Revised auto-saving
  • Added in-game pointers to tutorial objectives
  • New product: Cupcakes
  • EconoView: Full table-view of transactions
  • MyEmployees: Mass-action support
  • New cars: Anselmo AF90, Vord Tiara Vic
  • Custom key binding
  • Revised Vehicle UI
  • General improvements to scrollbar
  • Various new Uncle Fred objectives
  • Bizman Insight: Alerts streamlining update
  • Traffic: Reduce yellow-light duration of intersections
  • Add 'Slot' decal to warehouses
  • Major indoor performance improvements

Beta 7 November 2022

  • New furniture: Luxurious speaker
  • New furniture: Luxurious TV
  • New furniture: Gaming PC
  • Play videogames feature
  • Improved characters and clothing
  • Improved customer AI
  • Customizable customer queues
  • Investment funds
  • Improved pedestrian AI
  • Controller Mode and improved character controls
  • Steam Deck support
  • Garment District: More F1 apartments
  • Sleep quality (based on environment)
  • Adding more boats and yachts to the marina
  • Super luxurious residential apartment
  • New vehicle: Mercedes AMG GT inspired
  • Limited energy boost from caffeine consumables
  • Volume slider for car radio

Beta 6 September 2022

  • New vehicle: Ambulance
  • New vehicle: Police car
  • Introduce difficulty levels: Impacting competitiveness, tax rates, etc.
  • Custom Game Mode: Adjustable unlocks, progress, starting money, etc.
  • Allow skipping tutorial/Uncle Fred
  • HR Manager (HQ): Auto-scheduling, temporary employees, and auto-training
  • Bizman Schedule: Auto-fill feature
  • Major performance optimization
  • Revised Uncle Fred dialogs + voice acting
  • Adding radio/music to stores and businesses
  • Support for imperial units and 12-hour time
  • New app: Notifications - listing all earlier notifications
  • New vehicle: Rolls Royce Phantom inspired
  • Adding flatbed to IKA Bohag to transport up to 8 boxes

Beta 5 August 2022

  • Furniture/appliance delivery service
  • New vehicle: Mustang 67 inspired
  • New vehicle: Ford F-150 inspired
  • Revised loan system
  • Improve pedestrian AI
  • New special: Casino
  • Introduce parking zones
  • Adding physical employee demands
  • Improve vehicle handling/controls
  • Introduce employee aging and retirement
  • Allowing collapsing UI overlays
  • Additional 20 new tracks to radio
  • Support for UI scaling (%)
  • Optimized UI for long words/sentences (localization)

Beta 4 August 2022

  • Improved UI: Bizman business list
  • Improved UI: Start new business
  • Added Gas stations
  • Implement vehicle fuel system
  • Implement vehicle conditions
  • New special service: Car workshop
  • Real estate investment: Allow buying buildings and earn rent
  • Completion of Murray Hill neighborhood
  • City Hospital + exhaustion/death
  • Added happiness variable to player
  • New business types: Florist
  • Tax System & IRS Government Building
  • New vehicle: BMW 3-series stationwagon inspired
  • Balanced employee salaries + job demands

Beta 3 June 2022

  • Add localization/translation support
  • In-game radio stations/music
  • More sounds + improved ambience sounds
  • Demo version
  • Neighborhood filter to citymap
  • City taxis for quick transportation
  • More subway stations
  • Improved lighting and time of day feeling
  • Real character portrait in topbar
  • Buildings decorations (scaffolding + roof details)
  • Improved notifications (more types + timestamp)

Beta 2 April 2022

  • Completion of Midtown neighborhood
  • Improve BizMan Schedule UI
  • Improve Customer Capacity UI
  • Revised cleaning schedule
  • Support for selling furniture, products and vehicles
  • Redesigned item overlays
  • Vehicle Auto-Park feature
  • Building previews + More info in Bizman Presentation
  • New market demand system
  • Large retail building layout
  • Redesigned main menu
  • Auto-save/recovery-save functionality
  • New business type: Web Development Agency
  • Improve functionality and performance of UI tables

Beta 1 March 2022

  • New Car Controller with engine sounds
  • New interior floor and wall types
  • Allow modifying color of interior designer materials
  • Persona App: Player achievements and goals
  • Buy competitor businesses for sale
  • Large-sized residential apartment

Alpha 10 February 2022

  • Introducing Headquarters
  • Logistics Manager (HQ): Allow setting up automated delivery of products
  • Purchasing Agent (HQ): Allow importing products from the harbor
  • New building type: Warehouses
  • New employee type: Truck Driver (Delivery)
  • Help System: In-game documentation
  • Business Logo editor: Choose upload art. Change color

Alpha 9 January 2022

  • New app: Contacts - Allow phone calls to businesses
  • New building type: Office
  • New business type: Law Firm
  • Delivery contracts: Automated wholesale deliveries
  • New vehicle: Porsche 911 inspired
  • Automated cleaning through cleaning employee type
  • New employee type: Lawyers

Alpha 8 December 2021

  • Completion of Hell's Kitchen neighborhood
  • Character customization (new game: gender, skin color, age)
  • New special building: Advertising Agency
  • New traffic system
  • Improve vehicle controller/mechanics
  • Customer Capacity and Popularity (Marketing)

Alpha 7 October 2021

  • New business type: Coffee Shop (coffee, croissants, etc)
  • New business type: Liquor Store (cigars, wine, etc.)
  • Customize floor and walls
  • Introduce employees calling in sick
  • Introduce employee demands
  • Building sign editor: Choose font, sign type and colors
  • New vehicle: Freightliner M2-inspired truck

Alpha 6 August 2021

  • Sleeping benches: Quickly have a nap around the city
  • New items to existing businesses; Expensive Gifts (Gift shop), Hotdog + Grill, Burger + Station, Pizza + Oven
  • Medium-sized residential apartment
  • New business type: Jewelry Store
  • Large furniture store
  • New items: King-size bed, rounded shelf, floor lamp, potted plant, modular kitchen pieces
  • Introducing subway system

Alpha 5 July 2021

  • Completion of Garment District neighborhood
  • Night scene completed (street lights + light on vehicles)
  • 2 new vehicles (Nissan Rogue + Mercedes S Class inspired)
  • Added female characters
  • 2 new clothing variants for pedestrians
  • Improved camera controls
  • Customer insight
  • EconoView business-specific view
  • Employee improvements; Adapt to hiring variables. Add training functionality