I frequently spend time in #gamedev helping out anyone and everyone who stops by. This can, at times, include the complete newbies... I have fond recollections of spending an hour chatting to a guy whose mind was blown when we explained to him that he'd have to write code to do the bloodsplats on the walls in his FPS himself, and that the computer wouldn't just do them for him. Good times.

Anyway, there was another newbie in today, and I tried to sort him out with some 'big picture' concepts. Here's a flowchart I drew up for Hangman - it's missing a couple of bits, but hey. You journal people like pictures, right?