Guide

What the tutorial is teaching you

How the tutorial layer in Supermarket Simulator is put together: the scale, the online orders and the shoplifter each have their own lesson, objectives are their own data, and the missions underneath have named kinds.

Applies to

1.6.0 (223), read from the copy of the game this site was built from (see the sources page)

Before you start

A shop in its first days
The scale and the computer within reach
A moment to read what it is asking

Steps

Read the tutorial as a set of lessons rather than one long prompt, because there is a tutorial interface behind it rather than only ad-hoc messages.
the game carries a tutorial interface rather than only ad-hoc prompts
Watch the scale closely, because it has a tutorial manager of its own with an indicator and a part that positions it.
the scale has a tutorial manager of its own with an indicator display and a position container
Expect a lesson of its own for online orders, since they are introduced separately.
online ordering has a tutorial of its own
Expect a lesson for shoplifting as well, and it brings its own customer to act the part.
shoplifting has a tutorial of its own with a customer made for it
Watch the animation of that lesson, because the shoplifter tutorial listens to events of its own.
that tutorial has an animation listener of its own
Read what a step is asking before doing it, because tutorial objectives are their own data with a display.
tutorial objectives are stored as their own data with a display
Do not rush the step: the game checks objectives after a delay rather than instantly.
the game checks objectives after a delay
Treat a lesson as a mission underneath, because the game carries a mission system with a container and data of its own.
the game carries a mission system with a container for missions and mission data
Know that a mission can be one task or several, and that the game names kinds of mission.
a mission can be a single task or several, and missions are grouped by a kind of their own
Expect named missions for particular lessons, such as switching on an online order and a step at the scale.
there are named missions for an online order and for a step at the scale

Common mistakes

Treating the tutorial as one message and clicking through it without doing the step.
Ignoring the scale lesson and working out the weighing order later the hard way.
Missing that the shoplifter lesson uses a customer of its own, and taking it for a real thief.
Assuming an objective is checked the moment you act, when the game checks after a delay.

Related entries

In-game picture of the storefront of the shop on the first day from Supermarket Simulator, used to illustrate The tutorials that point you at things.

Running the shopThe tutorials that point you at thingsThe scale has a tutorial manager of its own, with an indicator display and a part that holds the indicator's position.

Diagram: the game holds a mission made of tasks, shows the objective it sets, and checks it after a delay.

Running the shopMissions and the objectives the game setsThe game carries a mission system with a container for missions and mission data.

Diagram: a mission is built on tasks, including filling, closing and delivering an order, an interaction task at the scale, ice-cream requests and a container for progression.

Running the shopThe task layer under the missionsA mission is built on tasks of its own rather than being a single instruction.

Sources

A local copy of the game, read only. Grounding for each step is on the technical reference pages; no number is estimated.