I finished drawing them, now I need to start coding them!  These are the remaining icons you select using Hotkeys to accomplish your goals and build your empire in a galaxy far far away...actually, let's not get into that, the game takes place in the Milky Way  

The first picture is all ability icons for researching.  If an ability has been researched or cannot be researched, the tile is left blank.

From left to right, top to bottom, by group:

Argo Plasma Torpedoes, Researched at an Argo Laboratory
Tank Extended Range, Researched at a Factory
Degruser Mines, Degruser Photon Torpedoes, and Raptor Deflector Shield, Researched at an Armory
Reclauda Detector, Reclauda Mine Detector, Reclauda Seismic Charge, Scouter Jet Pack, Balkstone Booster Engines and Camoza Booster Engines, Researched at a Starbase
Camoza ITNT, and Raptor Teleport, Researched at a Manhatton Station
Scouter Cloak, Camoza Cloak, and Balkstone Cloak, Researched at a Quantum Facility
Splitron Plasma Torpedoes, Researched at a Command Center

The second picture is options you can select at an Operation Center or a Transfomation Gateway.  From left to right, top to bottom: Exchange, Repair, Refuel, Restock, Refuel on Fuel, Refuel on Sephrane Gas

The third picture is the structures you can build.  The first group is basic structures.  Pressing PGRM will take you to research facilities and Operation Centers, and pressing PGRM again will take you back to the basic buildings.  Defense, Transformation Gateways, Detectors, ACCs, Watchtowers and Refineries are all basic structures.

For those of you wondering where the option for "Teleport" is, that will come when I have a better idea of what the process of teleporting will look like.

Nice graphics!!! Even without the description, I can understand what they stand for...
I <3 S.A.D. !!

Here's a treat for you guys:  the pre-pre-pre-pre alpha manual for S.A.D.  This is a draft manual I made when I was looking for help with S.A.D. (I was not going to start S.A.D. unless I was not the only person working on it, so this "manual" was to get people interested)

Of course, the final copy of the manual will be much more detailed and informative, and have pictures

I am gonna read further now, but so far it seems to look very nice, very detailled informations and instructions. I assume you are gonna add a lot of screenshots and the unit/building pics when done, right?

Definitely.  I'm most likely going to add game universe information as well

From BuckeyeDude:

"Just a quick demo of the tilemap. Still in its very early stages, but it should give you a rough idea of the map and how scrolling will work. It can scroll by an arbitray number of pixels so scroll speed will be customizable (default is 2, i also do smooth scrolling and by 8 in the demo).

Remember to view in Firefox/Opera for real speed of the gif"

I don't usually play these kinds of games, but I felt compelled to post. The team working on this game is really doing a nice job, the graphics are really sharp! Is BuckeyeDude handling all the coding?

I don't usually play these kinds of games, but I felt compelled to post. The team working on this game is really doing a nice job, the graphics are really sharp! Is BuckeyeDude handling all the coding?

Buckeye Dude and I both are, and we might have a third from time to time (long story).  But because I'm not fluent in ASM, I'm lack the skill at optimizing graphics, so he's doing all the coding for the tilemap and sprite routines.  He's also editing anything I write that could be optimized more.

That's a pretty nice system.  You're new and it's always good to learn from an established programmed.  It's a good ldea that makes SAD look great!