Preface

This section is currently a draft, and is subject to change.

The DGA Game Concepts Guide ('the Guide') specifies design concepts and guidelines of a game called 'DGA Distant Ground Attack' ('DGA', 'the DGA Game', or simply 'the Game).

This chapter introduces common topics related to the Guide.

Audience

The Guide is intended to be read by programmers, artists, testers, producers, managers, players, and everybody else involved in the Game’s design, development, testing, and use.

Legal

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Prerequisites

The DGA Game is based on the Java Platform and written in the Java programming language. DGA’s software architecture is closely related to the Java Platform’s technologies. If you are new to Java, spend some time getting up to speed on the language and platform; a good place to start is dev.java/learn.

Each topic in this tutorial provides some background information, but in general, we assume you have a basic knowledge of the technologies each Java Platform’s feature works with. Another field important for understanding the Guide is game development. We assume that you have some basic understanding in these fields.

Conventions

Throughout this document, we use the following typographic conventions:

Convention Meaning Example

Convention	Meaning	Example
Boldface	Boldface type indicates a new term defined in text below or in the glossary. Also it marks graphical user interface elements associated with an action.	Heaven signifies night and day, cold and heat, times and seasons. From the File menu, choose Open Project.
Italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, terms in the text or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.	Read Chapter 6 in the User’s Guide. Do not save the file. The command to remove a file is `rm filename`.
`Monospace`	Monospace type indicates the names of files and directories, commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.	Edit your `.login` file. Use `ls -a` to list all files. `machine_name% you have mail.`
very important	Underlined type indicates texts of especial importance.	The Commander stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerity, benevolence, courage and strictness.
(Book, page)	Letter code and number in round brackets indicates index of a text resource through the Bibliography and the page number(s) within the text.	(ECGG, p. 319) (TAOWG, pp. 27-29)

Boldface

Boldface type indicates a new term defined in text below or in the glossary. Also it marks graphical user interface elements associated with an action.

Heaven signifies night and day, cold and heat, times and seasons.

From the File menu, choose Open Project.

Italic

Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, terms in the text or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.

Read Chapter 6 in the User’s Guide.

Do not save the file.

The command to remove a file is rm filename.

Monospace

Monospace type indicates the names of files and directories, commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.

Edit your .login file.

Use ls -a to list all files.

machine_name% you have mail.

very important

Underlined type indicates texts of especial importance.

The Commander stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerity, benevolence, courage and strictness.

(Book, page)

Letter code and number in round brackets indicates index of a text resource through the Bibliography and the page number(s) within the text.

(ECGG, p. 319)

(TAOWG, pp. 27-29)