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NARRATIVE, AGENCY, AND CONTROL
JANET MURRAY & THE STANLEY PARABLE
DEFINITION
AGENCY
▸ action or intervention, especially such as to produce a
particular effect
▸ the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment.
▸ the capacity of individuals to act independently and to
make their own free choices. 
JANET MURRAY
WHAT IS AGENCY IN VIDEO GAMES?
▸ Not just participation, activity, and interaction
▸ Agency is a sense, an experience, a pleasure, an affect
▸ Agency as an aesthetic pleasure
▸ Experience of agency requires two kinds of scripting:
▸ 1) rules and procedures of game
▸ 2) cueing actions of player
The Tangled Rhizome
(open and undetermined)
The Solvable Maze (single-path maze adventure)
The Labyrinth (goal driven, but open ended)
Computer-based journey stories
Games as Symbolic Dramas
Games as Metaphors/Interpretations of Experience
The Contest Story
Narrative Agency vs. Procedural Authorship
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