Trading Card Game Research Articles

The use of the game Magic: The Gathering in the teaching of L2 reading

*O uso do jogo “Magic: The Gathering” no ensino de leitura em L2*O presente estudo teve como objetivo explorar de que maneiras o Trading Card Game (TCG) Magic: The Gathering (MTG) pode ser usado para o ensino de leitura em L2. Especificamente, o estudo aborda como o MTG pode nortear a ativação dos processos de leitura como decodificação, compreensão literal, compreensão inferencial e monitoramento da compreensão. Em relação ao método aplicado nesse estudo, foi feita uma seleção de cartas de MTG de uma coleção lançada recentemente chamada Kaladesh. Ademais, para a análise, foi levado em consideração o fato de os prováveis leitores serem jogadores de MTG em contraposição a não jogadores, já que a falta de Schemata para o jogo pode comprometer a execução de processos de leitura mais complexos. Além disso, a análise foi baseada no modelo de processos de leitura de Gagné et al. (1993), e os procedimentos de análise consistiram na explicação de como os textos nas cartas podem desencadear a execução dos processos de leitura. Como resultado, a análise sugere que o MTG de fato possui potencial para fomentar a execução dos processos de leitura já que as cartas contêm textos na forma de instruções e ou efeitos, os quais são formas autênticas de insumo. Este insumo, todavia, demanda o conhecimento declarativo dos jogadores leitores, tanto em L2 quanto em MTG.

The lure of the sorcerer: Consumers’ consumption meanings in the context of trading card games

This article examines the consumption experiences of consumers of trading card games. Fourteen depth interviews illuminate the emic and etic meanings that exist for two key groups of trading card game players – hobby players and expert tournament players of the trading card game, Magic. An etic framework is then derived that analyzes these perceptions in the context of issues related to collective dramatizations of leisure consumption and the social self. Findings show marketers how consumers use their imaginations especially for mythic consumption.

Pictorial AR Tag with Hidden Multi-Level Bar-Code and Its Potential Applications

For decades, researchers have been trying to create intuitive virtual environments by blending reality and virtual reality, thus enabling general users to interact with the digital domain as easily as with the real world. The result is “augmented reality” (AR). AR seamlessly superimposes virtual objects on to a real environment in three dimensions (3D) and in real time. One of the most important parts that helps close the gap between virtuality and reality is the marker used in the AR system. While pictorial marker and bar-code marker are the two most commonly used marker types in the market, they have some disadvantages in visual and processing performance. In this paper, we present a novelty method that combines the bar-code with the original feature of a colour picture (e.g., photos, trading cards, advertisement’s figure). Our method decorates on top of the original pictorial images additional features with a single stereogram image that optically conceals a multi-level (3D) bar-code. Thus, it has a larger capability of storing data compared to the general 1D barcode. This new type of marker has the potential of addressing the issues that the current types of marker are facing. It not only keeps the original information of the picture but also contains encoded numeric information. In our limited evaluation, this pictorial bar-code shows a relatively robust performance under various conditions and scaling; thus, it provides a promising AR approach to be used in many applications such as trading card games, educations, and advertisements.

The effectiveness of using in-game cards as reward

The research team has developed a web-based multiplayer trading card game to allow teachers choosing cards as rewards for students who actively participate in discussions and classroom activities as well as perform well in terms of doing assignments and writing exams or quizzes. In order to verify the effectiveness of the use of in-game cards as rewards, the research team integrated the trading card game into a web-based English vocabulary learning system. Students can receive cards as rewards every time after they use the learning system. A 6-week experiment had been conducted at an elementary school with 172 fifth-grade students. The results showed that boys have higher intention of getting the in-game cards as rewards. The research also showed that the use of the in-game cards as educational rewards not only motivates students to use the vocabulary learning system but also improves their learning outcome. The research result supported the recommended process for teachers to adopt the trading card game in their courses.

A Secure Protocol for Exchanging Cards in P2P Trading Card Games Based on Transferable E-Cash

Trading card games (TCG) differ from traditional card games mainly because the cards employed are not shared among players in a match. Instead, users play with the cards they own (e.g., purchased or traded with other players), which corresponds to a subset of all cards produced by the game provider. Even though most computer-based TCGs rely on a trusted third-party (TTP) for preventing cheating during trades, allowing them to securely do so without such entity remains a challenging task. Potential solutions are related to e-cash protocols, but, unlike the latter, TCGs allow users to play with the cards under their possession, not only to pass those cards over. In this work, we present the security requirements of TCGs and how they relate to e-cash. We then propose a concrete, TTP-free protocol for anonymously trading cards, using as basis a secure transferable e-cash protocol.

A Secure Protocol for Exchanging Cards in P2P Trading Card Games Based on Transferable e-cash

Trading card games (TCG) distinguish from traditional card games mainly because the cards are not shared between players in a match. Instead, users play with the cards they own (e.g., purchased or traded with other players), which corresponds to a subset of all cards produced by the game provider. Even though most computer-based TCGs rely on a trusted third-party (TTP) for preventing cheating during trades, allowing them to securely do so without such entity remains a challenging task. Actually, potential solutions are related to e-cash protocols, but, unlike the latter, TCGs require users to play with the cards under their possession, not only to be able to pass those cards over. In this work, we present the security requirements of TCGs and how they relate to e-cash. We then propose a concrete, TTP-free protocol for anonymously trading cards, using as basis a secure transferable e-cash protocol.

NFC 기반의 TCG 프로토타입 개발과 편의성 분석

본 논문에서는 아날로그 방식의 보드게임과 근거리 무선통신(NFC, Near Field Communication)을 이용한 보드게임의 편의성을 비교 분석하기 위하여 근거리 무선통신이 적용된 프로토타입으로 트레이딩 카드 게임(TCG, Trading Card Game)을 개발하였다. 특별히 아날로그 방식 카드게임의 장점인 사회적 유대감이나 의사소통 능력을 유지하도록 TCG 카드 게임을 개발하였다. 2인 1조로 20명의 플레이어들이 아날로그 카드게임과 NFC를 적용한 디지털 카드게임을 플레이 한 이후에 설문 조사 결과를 통하여 NFC 카드게임이 아날로그 카드게임보다 플레이어들에게 편의성을 많이 제공한다는 것을 확인하였다.

Analyzing the influence of virtuality on playful social interaction

Ambient intelligence technologies are making our daily life increasingly virtual, and the boundary between the real world and the virtual world is gradually disappearing. Computer games are often played on the Internet, which allows people to enjoy games with others, even when they are not at the same location. This paper analyzes the Trading Card Game (TCG), which has two versions. One version is played with paper-based cards, whereas the other is played on a computer. The computer-based TCG supports remote play and has a number of enhancements, such as providing special fictional effects on virtual cards. The two different versions are useful to analyze the influence of virtuality in making future social interaction more playful. First, we investigate potential pitfalls to introduce virtuality in TCG through the scenario-based analysis, which adopts a player's personality to exploit potential difficulties. For investigating further insights on the influence of virtuality in TCG, we analyze some experiments with Augmented Trading Card Game, where a real opponent player is replaced with a fictional player. Our findings from the analyses show that the feeling of realness is essential to make incorporated virtuality successful. Recently some games' concepts can be adopted in order to augment our real world. It is essential to investigate the influence of virtuality introduced with the games. The future social interaction will incorporate virtuality based on a variety of game-like features to make the interaction more playful. Therefore, the insights described in this paper will be useful to help the design of future playful social interaction.

트레이딩 카드 게임 조사 및 동물을 주제로 한 트레이딩 카드 게임 '전설의 조련사' 제안

트레이딩 카드 게임 조사 및 동물을 주제로 한 트레이딩 카드 게임 '전설의 조련사' 제안

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A new exhibit on pterosaurs at New York City's American Museum of Natural History features life-size models of the largest and smallest known species of the flying reptiles, an interactive flying pterosaur exhibit, and even a trading card game.

Introducing Virtuality to Enhance Game-related Physical Artifacts

Various smart artifacts that embed computers and sensors have been developed. Some of these artifacts include extra hardware components to enhance their functionalities, but the components are always real, not virtual. Ubiquitous computing technologies for introducing virtuality offer the possibility of adding virtual components to physical artifacts, but this possibility has not been sufficiently exploited in previous research. In this paper, we present the Augmented Trading Card Game (Augmented TCG) as a case study for enhancing physical artifacts by integrating virtuality. Augmented TCG monitors the opponent’s movement using MS Kinect and maps them onto a virtual character representing the opponent rather than directly displaying the real opponent’s actions. An image of the opponent’s card is also projected onto the table in front of the player. Thus, the player feels as if he/she is playing face-to-face with the opponent. Moreover virtuality allows more information to be displayed during game play. We conducted several experiments to examine how players feel while playing a game,, and we present Augmented TCG experiences as a case study in integrating virtuality into physical artifacts.

SecureTCG: a lightweight cheating‐detection protocol for P2P multiplayer online trading card games

ABSTRACTOnline gaming is today a very lucrative market, with millions of users all around the globe. At the same time, the increasing popularity and complexity of such games implies the need of deploying cheating‐detection mechanisms for ensuring the continuous interest of honest users in playing. The development of secure and efficient solutions for online games is, however, a challenging issue. This is especially true in P2P environments, in which the lack of a central trusted entity monitoring the game greatly facilitates the activity of malicious players. Aiming to tackle this issue, this paper presents SecureTCG, a protocol for detecting cheating attempts in P2P multiplayer card games where the players use their own decks to play, such as the so‐called trading card games. In summary, SecureTCG allows the multiple players participating in a trading card game match to detect cheating attempts as soon as they are made and without the intervention of third parties, supports multiple players and different game styles, displays tolerance to players’ dropouts during a match, prevents collusion among any number of players, provides (optional) after‐match auditability mechanisms, and has a reduced computational cost. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

온라인 TCG 게임에의 현실 카드 적용 방안 연구

상호작용 증강현실 인터페이스는 실세계에 가상 정보를 혼합하여 사용자의 인식을 증강시킬 수 있으며 사용자에게 실세계에서 이용되는 오브제를 가상 게임에 그대로 제공함으로써 현실과 가상 환경을 자연스럽게 연계할 수 있다. 우리는 실생활과 가상 게임 환경과의 이음새 없는 환경을 위해 TCG(Trading Card Game; 이하 TCG로 약칭) 게임에 실제 카드를 적용하는 방안을 연구하였다. 스마트 폰 카메라를 통해 인식된 카드를 가상의 TCG 게임 인터페이스로 사용한다. 기존 연구에 비해 보다 빠르고 스케일, 방향, 포즈, 회전에 무관하게 실 카드를 인식하기 위해 2 단계 이미지 키포인트 추출/매칭 방법(Two Phases Image eyPoint Extraction/Matching Method)을 스마트폰 환경에서 개발하고 이것을 가상 TCG 게임 시스템에 실험적으로 적용하였다. 이와 같은 창의적인 시도는 현실과 가상 환경을 자연스럽게 연결하여 게임에의 몰입감과 현실감을 배가시킬 것이다. Current virtual game interfaces cannot comprehend our metaphor, cannot reflect on our natural behavior aspect, cannot make us immerse into a game, and makes a barrier between virtual game space and our real behavior. It is very meaningful issue to use real objects tightly related to human-being's behaviors or reactions for interacting with game applications. Interactive Augmented Reality interfaces may augment users' perception of the real world by adding virtual information to it. We attempted an experiment on camera-based non-marker interface for online TCG application. This experiment uses real TCG cards which are recognized by our two phases Image KeyPoint Extraction/Matching Algorithm. These initiative experiments not only enlarge immersion and reality to the game, but also make real and virtual world seamless.

Match+Guardian: a secure peer-to-peer trading card game protocol

In trading card games (TCGs), players create a deck of cards from a subset of all cards in the game to compete with other players. While online TCGs currently exist, these typically rely on a client/server architecture and require clients to be connected to the server at all times. Instead, we propose, analyze and evaluate Match+Guardian (M+G), our secure peer-to-peer protocol for implementing online TCGs. We break down actions common to all TCGs and explain how they can be executed between two players without the need for a third party referee (which usually requires an unbiased server). In each action, the player is either prevented from cheating or if they do cheat, the opponent will be able to prove they have done so. We show these methods are secure and may be shuffled into new styles of TCGs. We then measure moves in a real trading card game to compare to our implementation of M+G and conclude with an evaluation of its performance on the AndroidTM platform, demonstrating that M+G can be used in a peer-to-peer fashion on mobile devices.

A Mouse Among Cards: Effects of Scarcity and Self-Uniqueness in a Children's Trading Card Game

A Mouse Among Cards: Effects of Scarcity and Self-Uniqueness in a Children's Trading Card Game

Using the Imagination: Consumer Evoking and Thematizing of the Fantastic Imaginary

This article explores the process by which consumers evoke and thematize the fantastic imaginary when playing a fantasy-based trading card game. Interviews with 15 informants, all players of Magic: The Gathering, serve as data. The result is a new framework that reveals how the fantastic imaginary is evoked and thematized. A typology of thematizing strategies employed by consumers is also presented. Implications are discussed in relation to consumer research, imagination theory, literary theory of the evoked fantastic imaginary, and the imaginary in play.

A trading-card game teaching about host defence.

To heighten the understanding of host-disease interactions by adolescents and young adults, using a trading card game format. A trading card game was developed in which paired students attack one another with pathogens or parry those attacks with appropriate defences. Twenty-five infectious pathogens or cancers, 30 defence agents and 6 health status modifying conditions were included. A middle school, upper school and medical school in the United States. 8th grade, 10th grade and first year medical students. The game was tested using pre-test/post-test evaluations in 8th graders, 10th graders and medical students. Factual information, pathogen-organ specificity, and general concepts were tested. There was a significant increase in test scores, from 39% to 58% correct in the 8th graders (P < 0.0001), from 47% to 59% among 10th graders (P = 0.0007), and from 80% to 88% (P = 0.049) among the medical students. Responses to control questions unrelated to the game did not improve. An interactive trading card format is a useful method for conveying information about host defence.

Dimensional analysis as a trading card game

A form of dimensional analysis based on a pack of cardsis described for use with students aged 11-16. This gives new approaches in understanding the manipulation of simple equations, and also aids familiarization with the units involvedand the relationships between them. Differentiation is providedby altering the layout of the cards and varying the complexity of the tasks.