Step 1 - Name Your Team/Org/Studio

Don’t worry, you’ll be able to change this later, and it currently isn’t shown anywhere. It’s just a way to let you have multiple teams if you want.

Step 2 - Create Your Game

Enter a name in the text box at the bottom of the screen and click ‘Add Game’

Step 3 - Choose Your Time Mechanic

How does game time progress? We support two time mechanics to choose from:

Turn Based

Each ‘Turn’ represents some time increment - could be a minute, hour, day, whatever you want. Build, crafting, and production times are measured in this increment, and time only moves ahead one increment when the player explicitly triggers ‘End Turn’

Conditional Real-Time

Time progresses on its own, but it is only running when some process is active. If you start a build that is configured to take 10 seconds, a progress bar will fill up over 10 seconds, and then the build will be complete.

Step 4 - Add Game Components

This is where you’ll probably spend most of your time: defining game components and the workflows players can execute to interact with them. Which components you define depends on the kind of game you want to build. Click ‘Add Component’ to see a list of all supported component types.

Some key components you might start with:

• Materials - these are resources gathered and produced, like wood, ore, lumber, iron
• Harvestable Resources - lets players gather resources like from a Tree, Forest, or Mine
• Factory - converts inputs into outputs, but inputs are optional: a Lumber Mill converts wood to boards, a House produces Taxes, generating Gold every 10 seconds or every turn
• Locations - for travel and exploration. You can select the game layout to use for each location, currently either laid out as cards or as an isometric view (like a city builder)
• Quests - great for guiding your players through the content of your game

Step 5 - Build Game World

Player and Location Loadout