Ruby for one day game programming camp for beginners

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KMC runs a one‑day game camp at Kyoto University where about 20 participants, 80% novices bring Windows laptops, unzip a prepared package and edit main.rb from a zip with a starter kit (Ruby 2.3 and a simple game library) to build simple shooters, racers or card games. Organizers assign one mentor per beginner and enforce a 9:00–18:00 deadline; as a result roughly 80–90% finish a working game using rectangle collision, simple loops, globals or small classes.

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1. 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
2. 5:20Event concept and goals
3. 10:32Teaching approach and one-on-one pairing
4. 14:17Event structure and timeline
5. 18:15Deadline importance and project scope
6. 22:16Ruby’s advantages for beginners
7. 27:29Comparison with other tools
8. 29:40Key takeaways and summary
9. 31:38Q&A session

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