Getting started
You select a google account upon starting the game. This account is connected to your player so you may change or play on several devices. If you play on another device you will have to confirm using an email to your google account. Only information entered in this game will be visible to other players.
Select species
You don't have to select species upon starting but you may not do much before you have selected species. You may look around and you may chat in the public chat. So click on "Select Species" and selet one of them 
Found colonies
When you select species you are given two Swarming Colonies 
or 
or 
. Those are used when founding new colonies 
or 
or 
To found a Colony:
- Click (or long click) on the map somewhere within your inner circle, the yellow one (Action Radius).
- Select Build Nest
- Now there is an Empty nest
- Click on it and select Colonize
Order the ants
When you have found a colony you should set Colony Orders
to tell the ants what to do. If you want to get a quick start you should go get Food 
and tell the ants to expand the capacity and breed and you move around to Pick Up
to the colony.
Expand
Once the colonies have reached a decent population you may order them to Swarm
. This will give you new Swarming Colony to found new colonies.
Experience
You will receive Experience on some actions you make. This experience is used for levelling up. Read more about it at Experience.
Use Help Expand
as soon as you can on yours and Allied Colony (in your color) to help them and gain Experience, and also Sabotage
on your enemies
Deal with your enemies
When you have bigger colonies and are more experienced you may Get Warriors and Attack enemy colonies.
Good Luck and have fun!