Tactical Knowledge Acquisition Support System from Play Videos of Esports Experts

Abstract

Esports are a competition that involves computer games and video games that are played online. Some expert players upload videos of their play (play video) on the internet. In esports, understanding various tactical knowledge is important so that players can take appropriate actions based on such situations. Unfortunately, players have inadequate opportunity to learn them. The video performances of experts who play esports contain scenes where various tactical knowledge has been adopted by the experts. The objective of our research is to support players’ grasping about the tactical knowledge of experts from their play videos. This research provides a system that extracts such components of tactical knowledge as sequence of actions, applicable situations, and its effects from good scenes that are selected by players from the play videos.