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Roberts and Isbell state autonomy and authorial control are in tension; Riedl and Stern describe a coherence-versus-agency trade-off and a story director that adapts the plot; Facade's authors say they traded global for local agency under fixed authoring effort.\n\nCurator qualifications: Mateas 2000: 'A player will experience agency when there is a balance between the material and formal constraints'; 'the game must strike a balance between the material and formal constraints'; no sentence found stating story and agency are not in conflict. Wardrip-Fruin et al.: 'Mateas's approach also makes it clear that story and agency are not in conflict. Rather, they are closely tied.' Roberts & Isbell: autonomy and authorial control 'known to be in tension' (C3R-0016). 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