Roadmap

What it does today

• Follows your build order while you play

  An overlay on top of the game shows the current step and notices on its own what you already did.

• Tells you where to put every villager

  How many there should be on each resource, compared to how many you really have.

• Warns you about what you miss

  Next to your mouse: out of houses, idle town center, idle villagers.

• Adjusts when you stray

  If you do something early or run late, it carries on instead of getting stuck. If you abandon the build order, it stops asking for its steps.

• Sees what your rival does

  From the score panel it notices when your rival clicks up to the next age and warns you.

• Picks the build order for you

  On the loading screen it reads the civs and suggests one for your civ and your rival. It also starts and stops on its own.

• Gives you a report afterwards

  What fell behind, how long the town center sat idle, how long you were out of houses and how that matchup tends to go.

• A website to find, build and share

  A library with a build order for every civ, an editor that simulates every change and real matchup stats.

• It doesn't cheat

  It only looks at the screen: it doesn't read the game's memory, inject code or send keys or clicks.

What it can't do yet

Better you know before downloading it.

• Only tested at 1920×1080

  The HUD rescales, but the production queue and the loading screen still expect that resolution. On another one it may read less.

• The app is in Spanish

  The website is already in English and Spanish, and the app reads the game in both, but its own texts are Spanish only. This is the biggest thing missing for most players, and it's on the list below.

• Works best with its HUD mod

  To know how many villagers are on each resource, the app installs a mod that slightly changes the game's panel. Without the mod it estimates and gets more wrong.

• It doesn't replan

  If the game strays far from the build order, it helps with the basics (houses, town center, villagers), but it doesn't work out a new path.

• Almost nobody else has tried it

  Nobody but its author has tried the first-time setup. You'll very likely find something broken in the first five minutes.

What's coming

Roughly in this order. It may change depending on what shows up in games.

• A game log

  The app will save what it read and what it advised in each game, and you'll be able to send it if you want, with no video or screenshots. That way any bug you hit can be reproduced and fixed without you playing again: it's what will speed everything up the most.

• Any resolution

  All the reading working on your screen, not just at 1920×1080.

• A friendlier app

  Today you can tell it was built by a programmer, for a programmer. A nicer, simpler version is coming for people who just want to play, in English too.

• A build order that replans itself

  Instead of following a fixed list, the coach would look at how your game is going and work out the best path from there to the next goal: if you lost villagers or fell behind, it tells you what to do now. It's the most ambitious item here and it needs games from other players to get right.

• More languages

  The ones the game ships with, little by little, starting with what people ask for.

• A small beta

  A few players with the game log on, before any big release. If you're interested, let us know.

How to help

You don't need to know how to code.

• Play with the app

  And when the game log is ready, leave it on. Every game with another civ, another map or another screen shows things you never see playing the same way.

• Tell us what's broken

  Open an issue on GitHub with what you saw and, if you can, a screenshot. A simple "it asked me for a house I already had" helps a lot.

• Publish your build orders

  Build them in the editor and upload them to the library, or vote for the ones that helped you so others can find them.

• Join the beta

  If you want to be among the first and don't mind things breaking, say so on GitHub.

• Help with languages

  If a translation bothers you or you'd like to add your language, you can: all the texts are in simple files.

• Buy me a coffee

  It's free and it'll stay free. What comes in pays for the domain and the website, and it's logged in plain sight on the home page.