Encircled has a tutorial!

And the tutorial has text!

Something like 50% of the initial playtesters complained about being dropped in an abstract world with no instructions when they loaded the game. Quite understandable.

However, figuring out which mechanics need to go in a tutorial and writing terse, clear, easy-to-read prose that will explain those mechanics is a time-consuming task that I only just managed to finish now.

But now, Encircled is accessible to people who don't have me on the end of an IM system, don't like reading readmes or built-in help systems, and don't like to have to figure things out for themselves.

Hopefully that demographic includes some people who will enjoy the game.

Download: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6433222/encircled.zip

Next on the RL agenda: planes, Purkinje cells, normal vectors, and parallel fibres.