Usage

This document describes what you can do so far once you start the game.

Navigation

Move the map with your arrow keys
Move the map with the middle mouse button

Terrain

Scroll through available terrain blocks with scroll wheel
Left click to build terrain at the specified position
Press space to toggle tile blending mode
Left clicking outside of the map creates a new terrain chunk

Buildings + Units

Scroll through available objects (buildings, units, etc) with ctrl + scroll wheel
Right click to create a building construction site at the specified position
Right click to create a unit at the specified position, right click again to kill it

Actions mode

Press m to switch from Contruct mode to Actions mode
You can now select units and buildings
Right click on the map as usual to move units
Select a single unit to show the properties in the lower left corner of the window
You can attack other units by right-clicking them
You can build buildings by selecting villagers and right-clicking on the construction site

Other

Toggle the HUD with F1
You can take a screenshot by pressing F2, it will be saved in a file named like /tmp/openage_2019-12-31_23-59-59_xx.png
Press y to enable villagers to place the selected building
You can change the right-click commands with the z, x and c keys: move commands only with z, gather commands with x and all commands (default) with c
Open the ingame console with the backtick key
Press F5 to do a quick save, which saves the current units to load later with F9. This even works after restarting the game

Development

Press F3 to toggle the debug overlay
Press F4 to draw a grid over the tiles
With F12 you can start a profiler. Press F12 again to stop and show results.