Making a game in C++

I want to start making a game in C++, but I have no idea where to start, and where to progress from there.

I know I'm going to get flamed, but it's worth a shot.

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Took me a few days to write a game of Tetris in OpenGL, last year.

Here's a screenshot I found recently on my imageshack account of it in the early stages:

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/8471/cb7xa.jpg