I want to learn game dev with my son. I have no prior experience with games or C++, but I often develop embedded C and Python scripts for work.

The Unreal Engine is as good a starting point as any, except that it is highly coupled to Microsoft Visual Studio, at least according to community posts. My first goal is to set up a build tool without ever installing Microsoft Visual Studio. Progress on this is documented in doc/dev-setup.md.

git clone https://github.com/sustainablelab/game-dev.git

In Vim, put the cursor in the window with the markdown file and do ;pan.

Here is the shortcut to put in your .vimrc:

nnoremap <leader>pan :!pandoc -f markdown %:r.md -s -o %:r.html -c pandoc.css --toc<CR>

Or from a bash terminal, cd into game-dev and run the command:

pandoc -f markdown doc/readme.md -s -o doc/readme.html -c pandoc.css --toc