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title: Toward Post-Game Reflection in In-Person Collectible Card Games: Match Reconstruction Using Chest-Mounted Cameras
tags:  #ccg #post-game reflection  
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published: October 08, 26
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Toward Post-Game
Reflection in In-Person
Collectible Card Games:
Match Reconstruction Using
Chest-Mounted Cameras
Michihiro Niijima and Satoshi Nakamura
Meiji University, Japan
Card images: ©1995–2026 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc.


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Background
Post-game reflection helps players improve
[Wallner et al., 2021]
Chess
Fighting games
Team-based games
Street Fighter 6
League of Legends
Reflect on past decisions to find ways to improve.
G. Wallner, M. van Wijland, R. Bernhaupt, and S. Kriglstein. “What Players Want: Information Needs of Players on Post-Game Visualizations.” CHI 2021
Images: Aaaatu / CC BY-SA 4.0; ©Pokémon; ©CAPCOM; ©Riot Games
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Background
Post-game discussion in games like Chess and CCG
Why did you choose this move?
What else could you have done?
To discuss player choices, player need to recall the situation.
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Background
Collectible Card Games (CCG)
Post-game reflection is also important for improving play in CCG.
Card images: ©1995–2026 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc. © Wizards of the Coast LLC. Magic: The Gathering is a trademark of Wizards of the Coast LLC.
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Background
Chess and CCG: who knows what?
Chess
CCG
Perfect information game
Imperfect information game
Easy
Difficult
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Background
Chess and CCG: who knows what?
CCG
Chess
Both players see every piece
shared board
Both players can reflect on
their decisions using the same
board position.
Perfect information game
Imperfect information game
Easy
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Background
Chess and CCG: who knows what?
Chess
CCG
Only the owner sees the hand
opponent’s hand is hidden
If a player cannot remember their
hand, their opponent cannot
know what cards they hand.
Perfect information game
Imperfect information game
Difficult
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Background
Chess and CCG: who knows what?
Chess
CCG
Only the owner sees the hand
opponent’s hand is hidden
To support post-game reflection in CCG,
we need to record matches including players’ hands.
If a player cannot remember their
hand, their opponent cannot
know what cards they had
Perfect information game
Imperfect information game
Difficult
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Camera position and hand visibility [Fukushima+ 2025]
Overhead camera
Recording with an overhead camera
Hand
Play area
We need a viewpoint that can capture the cards in the hand.
福島颯太，宮本友樹，片上大輔：TCGにおけるリアルタイム自動実況システムの開発，HAIシンポジウム 2025
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Chest-Mounted Cameras
A smartphone on each player’s chest
Camera position
What the camera sees
The hand faces its owner. A chest view can capture it with the play area.
Card images: ©1995–2026 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc.
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Overview of our system
Card images: ©1995–2026 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc.
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Card detection
Card images: ©1995–2026 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc.
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Event estimation
Energy attachment
Switch
Card images: ©1995–2026 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc.
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Match log generation
Card images: ©1995–2026 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc.
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Pilot study
2 evaluation metrics
①Card detection
②Action detection
15 matches
First author and 5 collaborators 3 matches with each collaborator
Both players recorded video
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Pilot study: Result①
Card detection
Comparison with records made by
hand 500 frames for card detection
Successful card
Target
F1
Hand cards
0.91
Play-area cards 0.85
Missed card
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Pilot study: Result②
Action detection
View point Author
Collaborators
Event (F1)
0.47
Author
0.70
Collaborator
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A small study of post-game discussion
3 pairs
2 matches per pair
How did using the log change the discussion?
Card images: ©1995–2026 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc.
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Three changes in post-game discussion
1 More specific choices
A general idea for a better move became
a plan using a specific card.
2 Reasons behind the opponent’s play
Players checked the opponent’s hand
and discussed why they chose an action.
3 Links to other moments
One situation led to discussion of
related moments before and after it.
Card images: ©1995–2026 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc.
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Future work
More reliable logs
Improve camera positioning and reduce missed events.
Test with more players and a wider range of decks.
Learning from discussion
Examine how logs support post-game reflection.
Test whether these discussions help players improve their play.
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