The base game currently provides a short tutorial wizard which gives an overview of gameplay:
A similar tutorial screen, shown to players on their first Hayseed playthrough, would be a help to new players. The screen (or screens) would provide a basic outline of crops, harvesting, and seasons. It may be preferable to include two or three image/text pairs per screen (as opposed to one per screen as the base game does).
A series of static screen images, with a Next/Finished button to navigate them, would be adequate for this purpose. The tutorial text would be localized and rendered over the screen.
Alternatively, component classes for laying out images (with border) and associated text would be useful.
This might also be sufficient to render Night Soil relic unnecessary, as it exists now primarily as a reminder and to reduce info overload. The shuffle mechanic would be instead become part of basic crop behavior.
Note that the actual tutorial content can be completed independently of this work.
The base game currently provides a short tutorial wizard which gives an overview of gameplay:
A similar tutorial screen, shown to players on their first Hayseed playthrough, would be a help to new players. The screen (or screens) would provide a basic outline of crops, harvesting, and seasons. It may be preferable to include two or three image/text pairs per screen (as opposed to one per screen as the base game does).
A series of static screen images, with a Next/Finished button to navigate them, would be adequate for this purpose. The tutorial text would be localized and rendered over the screen. Alternatively, component classes for laying out images (with border) and associated text would be useful.
This might also be sufficient to render Night Soil relic unnecessary, as it exists now primarily as a reminder and to reduce info overload. The shuffle mechanic would be instead become part of basic crop behavior.
Note that the actual tutorial content can be completed independently of this work.