Anno Romuli 0. Your world is empty, save for the asterisk shaped tile which is your Settlement. It will start emanating Culture which in turn allows the population surrounding your settlement to grow over time. The white-on-pink Omega symbol indicates the cursor.

We pressed Enter a few times to let the city populate itself. The faces in the top middle indicate the population under the cursor (here highlighted by the white letter ‘F’ - which will build a Farm on that tile when pressed). Note we built quite a few farms around the settlement. The pink house-shaped symbol indicates people are living there.

A civilization is born! We also built a Logger (Omega symbol) to produce wood, and Walls (stripy white blocks) to protect our city. There’s a lot of wood currently under the cursor, indicated by the green Ws in the top middle.