chriszhang

I meet people sometimes that don't care about privacy policy because they think they have nothing to hide. I think there were some stories on HN where someone thought they have nothing to hide but then got into problems because their privacy was misused or their data was misused. Those stories provide lesson that everyone should care about privacy and how their data is used. Cannot find such stories now using search. anyone has links to them? Or any similar story or news articles that can be used to convince that everyone should care about privacy even those people who think they have nothing to hide?

One thing I want to avoid is start with heavy and complex beasts like Unity which abstracts away a lot of the basic concepts.

I am looking for something more minimal. Game programming from scratch approach. Like the early days when people used to write programs in BASIC building all the graphical components and audio tones step by step.

Is there something available today? My requirements:

- No game engine.

- Portable technology. I should be able to share my game with users on other platforms and systems.

- A good learning resource to begin learning game programming from scratch.

- Support for graphics and sound.

Any help will be appreciated.

Which editors/IDEs do you use? Did you learn new tricks or shortcuts or commands in your editors/IDEs this year? please share!