long ago these lands were a verdant wonderland. giant mammoths roamed the forests, huge birds eclipsed the sun with their mighty wings and beasts of unimaginable size and power swam the lakes and rivers. there was no place for man in this wild world...|then the ice age began and killed everything.|well, almost everything... i mean you wouldn't be here reading this if everything had died... anyway, among the few creatures that survived was primitive man. eking out a meagre and extremely chilly existence, huddled around fires in dismal caves. so it was with one tribe in particular, the avnotaklu tribe, until one day... ||chief! chiieeef! you have to come and see this!|mumbo! you buffoon! what's all this fuss?!?|the-the-the-the-the ice! i-i-it's gone! th-th-the ice age is o-over! the s-s-sun is sh-shining, the birds are s-s-singing... it's beautiful!|what are you gibbering about? i didn't know you had a stutter?!?|i d-d-don't chief, it's cold out there that's all! you don't understand, we can go outside again!|what?!? outside?!? i always knew you were a mammoth short of a herd mumba, but this takes the cake!|what's a cake? oh never mind that now, come and see for yourself!|by all that's unwashed and hairy, he's right! i always knew you were a clever one mumba! triiiiiiibe! listen up!||the time has come to leave this cave and venture forth! get your behinds out there!||it... it's been so long since we saw the sunlight playing on the water, the animals gamboling on the lush green grass, the trees swaying gently in the breeze... |i'm hungry! and it's cold! go and find me some shelter... and get me something to eat while you're at it! what do you think this is, a poetry workshop? jump to it you slack-jawed simpletons!|thousands of years in a cave and all he can think about is his stomach... well, better get building... let's start with some huts, a store and a kitchen, we'll need to gather materials to build with... let's get to work!|hi there, they say that i could talk the hind legs off a mammoth, so i've been chosen to teach you how to get things done around here.|at the top of the screen you can see the current population of our tribe, the amount of living space and the amount of recources we have stored.|the building in front of me is the hub of our village, the chief's hut. this is where our cultured, sensitive... well this is where our chief lives anyway. first-rate chap, by the way, if a little unhinged. sometimes the elders gather here to sleep- errr, i mean discuss vital issues!|first of all let's build a store for the things we gather. open the game menu with the lsk and select the 'building' option. highlight the store, notice you can see it's resource cost in the upper left corner of the screen. now press the lsk to select it, and find a free space on the map to place it. if a '!' appears on the building you cannot place it there. once you have found a suitable space, press the lsk again to place the building.|good! let's gather some wood and stones to build with. move the cursor to any villager and press 'select' to select them.|once selected, an information panel will appear in the upper left corner of the screen, see? you can access help on this panel by pressing 0. take a look around, i'll wait here... don't worry, i'm not in any hurry... i mean, it's not as if i have my own things to be getting on with...||each person has a set of skills. when they're young, their skills are very basic. as a villager performs a task their skill in that task gets higher. the higher the skill, the better and faster the task is performed.|select a villager. now move the cursor to a tree, notice how the cursor changes. now press 'select' to send the villager to harvest wood.|now do the same, but select stones instead of a tree, there's plenty of them around, after all, this is the stone age! i can't believe i just said that...|why don't we try and build some huts and a kitchen while we're waiting for the store to be built. gadzooks, was that a bear?!? oh, it was just the chiefs stomach rumbling. we'd better hurry up and gather some food. that bush next to the chiefs hut is covered with berries, let's try that.|huts are needed for resting and... errrr... privacy, if you take my meaning. you don't? oh... well, when a caveman and a cavewoman love each other very much they may decide to make a little caveperson... that's why you need huts. try and make sure everyone in the village has somewhere to sleep or they get cranky.|now let's try ordering some people about. after all, what's the point in having all this power if you can't abuse it? hold down 'select' until a green frame appears under the cursor, then release it. now stretch the frame by moving the cursor so that it covers some villagers. then press 'select' to select them as a group.|let me show you another useful thing, that will help you to find your villagers quickly. select the 'villagers' button in the game menu and a list of villagers will appear. full information about the current villager is shown at the top of the screen. press 'select' to move to the highlighted villager on the map. press 'select' again to select them and exit the list.|ah good, the kitchen is finished... notice the exclamation mark on it? that means we need to find someone to cook for us. select a villager and click on the kitchen to give the order.|good job! i'm going to grab some food, i'll be back a bit later. in the meantime you can practice what you've learnt, there's still much to do!|chief! some strange feral looking men are running towards the camp very quickly, what should we do?|ah, it's probably just our new neighbours coming to congratulate us on our fine new village! or maybe they're door to door salesmen?|ermmm... they look very angry... and they seem to be brandishing clubs in a threatening manner...|nonsense! who on earth would want to harm us? now go and welcome them! that's an order!|y-y-yes chief... *gulp*|what is it with people and stutters around here?|arrrgh! that hurts! ouch! why? oh god why!|oh my... i guess they're not friendly after all... we'd probably better stop them...|me again! now seems like the perfect opportunity to teach you the 'call to arms' command! this command will order all of your villagers to grab whatever weapons are available and assemble at a location. open the game menu and select 'call to arms!'.|scary aren't they? i wouldn't want to mess with them... to send them back to work, open the game menu and select 'back to work'!|well that was a close call, we could have been toast then!|what's toast? lucky i noticed their violent intentions, otherwise someone could've gotten hurt! well... someone else could've gotten hurt. it seems that our neighbours may have different dietary requirements to us... one of them bit me!|you don't mean that they're...|yes! zombies! it's probably only a matter of time before i turn! save me!|i was actually thinking cannibals chief... but your explanation is far more plausible. either way, we'd better start thinking about protecting ourselves unless we want to spend our last minutes smothered in ketchup with wooden stakes up our...|you're right! i know let's build ourselves a gym, with a spar and a juice bar and a flirty receptionist named 'kim'!|yes! well, no! but yes to the gym! and we can make ourselves new and better weapons! fists and stones are no match for spears and clubs! let's build ourselves an armoury too!|we should also build some kind of range where we can improve our throwing skills...|you mean like a throwing range?|exactly! egads i'm clever, no wonder i'm chief! so then, i hereby decree that we must build a gym, an armoury and a throwing range! we'll be ready if those zombies come after us again! |and don't forget to keep an eye out! we never know when our cannibalistic counterparts will come sniffing around here again! we must keep our people safe... especially me!|what the chief wants, the chief gets. to train warriors we'll need weapons. after all, what's a warrior without a weapon? let's build an armoury, to make weapons and a gym and a range for our warriors to learn how to use them.|i ought to mention a bit about the chief. being chief is a big deal around here, everyone looks to them for guidance and support. whoever is chief gives a bonus to themselves and everyone around them in whatever task they are doing. for example, warriors will fight harder if the chief is around. look busy, the boss is coming!|