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Perlin’s dialectic of “linear narrative” and “interactive game” illustrates the question of “agency” between a game and a story. In technical point of view, it is remarkably important for dramatic game design. But her contention that people’s efforts on interactive narratives cannot move forward to merge film and games does not make much sense to me. As a matter of fact, the text-based early game genres such as MUDs and Moos were successful in creating a form in which the wall between “my agency” and “the agency of an entity that seems psychologically present and real to me” were blurred.