This page documents how a series of scenarios for introducing the player to 0 A.D. may be designed.

What the tutorial should cover

Basics

• Map navigation.
• Unit selection.
• Group selection.
• Order queues.
• The concepts of idle and working units.
• Territory.
• Shroud of darkness.
• Fog of war.
• The concept of resource requirements.

Training

• Training workers.
• Training queues.
• Rally points.
• Garrisoning units.
• Training fighters.
• Deleting units.

Construction

• Building with basic workers.
• Building placement and rotation.
• Adding workers to a building under construction.
• Beginning multiple constructions at once.
• Building with citizen soldiers.
• Deleting buildings.

Gathering

• Treasures.
• Foraging.
• Woodcutting.
• Mining stone.
• Mining metal.
• Mills.
• Slaughtering livestock.
• Hunting.

Farming

• Building fields.
• Harvesting.
• Building corrals.
• Training livestock.
• Farmsteads.
• Building docks.
• Building fishing ships.
• Fishing.
• Fishing with garrisoned unit.

Bartering

• Building market.
• Bartering.
• Exchange rates.

Combat

• Predatory animals.
• Training infantry.
• Attacking enemy units.
• Unit statistics.
• Melee and ranged.
• Damage types.
• Auras.
• Loot.
• Experience points and rank.
• Healing units.

Defense

• Unit stances.
• Building scout towers.
• Garrisoning units in towers.
• Building walls.
• Building wall towers.
• Repairing buildings.

Attack

• Control groups.
• Formations.
• Siege units.

Storyboard

Proposal 1

Tutorial 1 - "Settlers"

The player starts out with only a small group of citizen soldiers just off a coast. The tutorial will teach the player how to use the interface to build a functioning base with a stable and growing economy.

The player starts off with 300 wood, 300 metal and 300 stone.

Step 1:

The area where the player begins is populated with trees, so the tutorial will teach him how to move his citizen soldiers to a clearing up ahead.

"Welcome to the world of 0 A.D! These five men are your units. In due time, you will learn how to command them to found your own city on this shoreline."