{"rewrite":{"id":"r_ad8cdd39b54617695121b1f6","clusterId":"c_ebeb004ddcdfaa04696d7fdd","slug":"cotton-city-alpha-demo-released-on-itch-io","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Cotton City Alpha Demo Released On Itch.io","summary":"Developer n1kozor has released the alpha demo of Cotton City, a casual city-building game in development. Houses, roads, trees, and small vehicles are drawn in a knitted style, as if crocheted onto fabric. Players spend cotton on their city or use Creative Mode for unlimited resources and building options. A House Workshop lets players combine building shapes and colors into their own designs. The demo is on itch.io, and future development direction will follow player feedback.","whyItMatters":"The studio is treating the alpha as a direction-setting exercise, with the roadmap for the full game explicitly tied to what players say about the demo rather than to a fixed plan.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe alpha build is playable now, and the developer has tied its next steps to whoever tries it. Cotton City runs on cotton as a resource in the standard mode, while Creative Mode opens unlimited resources and every building option from the start. The House Workshop then lets players combine shapes and colors into original house designs rather than picking from a fixed set. The pitch is slower than most city builders: streets go down a few at a time and neighborhoods fill in stitch by stitch, matching the crocheted look of the houses, roads, trees, and small vehicles.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Cotton City's alpha demo is on itch.io, but n1kozor wrote the House Workshop to let players combine shapes and colors into their own building designs. The demo will change shape based on the feedback from that mode.","twitterPost":"Cotton City's House Workshop lets players combine shapes and colors. That feature will shape n1kozor's roadmap more than the alpha itself.","threadsPost":"Cotton City's alpha demo is free on itch.io, but the part that will shape the roadmap is the House Workshop, where players combine shapes and colors into their own building designs. n1kozor says future development will follow the feedback from players using it.","newsletterBlurb":"Developer n1kozor has put out an alpha demo for Cotton City, a casual city builder where houses, roads, trees, and small vehicles look as though they were crocheted onto fabric. Players spend cotton on their city or switch to Creative Mode for unlimited resources, and a House Workshop lets them combine shapes and colors into their own designs. The demo is on itch.io, and n1kozor says the direction of future development will be decided based on player feedback.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Game Spark\",\"url\":\"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/09/24/172701.html\",\"title\":\"Knitted-style art looks cute! Alpha demo of casual city-building game 'Cotton City' released\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4701,"outputTokens":578,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791213733,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T15:17:41.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-05T15:21:07.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T15:21:07.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_ebeb004ddcdfaa04696d7fdd","canonicalTitle":"編み物風のアートスタイルがカワイイ！カジュアル街づくりゲーム『Cotton City』アルファデモ版公開","representativeArticleId":"a_9d850e9845ae17b779cf31d6","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Cotton City\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"release\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-24T06:45:03.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-24T06:45:03.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T15:21:06.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Game Spark","url":"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/09/24/172701.html","title":"編み物風のアートスタイルがカワイイ！カジュアル街づくりゲーム『Cotton City』アルファデモ版公開"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Cotton City"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"release","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}