Let's get started. This is the screen upon launch:

First off, a noggin:

After every "significant" event, you collect rewards and experience. As the tutorial progresses, you can watch the experience bar increase in the upper left hand corner.

Renaming monsters is pretty simple. Select the monster. Press the "?" Info button...

Tap on the monster's name. And type in something appropriate.

Collect my rewards.

Now that I'm level 2, I get to breed a mammott.

Buy one from the market or nursery.

Waste a diamond for a two minute incubation...

And collect my rewards.

Buy a bakery from the market.

Feeding monsters is important. Higher level monsters make more money than lower level monsters. Also, once you begin breeding monsters, the ones with more "elements" make more money. So for now, don't worry about feeding a monster above level 4 - and that costs very little in food!

Tap the bakery and select the food you want to bake. In this case: cookies.

And we waste another diamond to speed up a five minute wait time.

Tapping the bakery or the food icon once the food is done will automatically add the food into storage in the upper right hand corner of the screen.

We finished the basics!

Now collect our rewards. We got our diamond back, gained some experience and did not spend too much gold.

Next, I want to level up quickly, add islands and breed monsters! Stay tuned