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How do I separate __Story Games__ from other storytelling games?

- A focus on cooperative story telling where games rules give all players _equal narrative control_.
- A player’s ability to affect what happens in the game is not dependent on a their character’s fictional ability to do those things. [^arsludi-defining-story-games]
- A focus on cooperative story telling where games rules give all players _equal narrative control_. [^arsludi-our-ground-is-level]
- A player’s ability to affect what happens in the game is not dependent on a their character’s fictional ability to do those things. [^arsludi-defining-story-games]

Different Story Games facilitate different kinds of stories.

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[^arsludi-defining-story-games]: [Defining Story Games by Ben Robbins](https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/460/defining-story-games/)

[^arsludi-our-ground-is-level]: [Our Ground is Level and Our Table is Round by Ben Robbins](https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/218/our-ground-is-level-and-our-table-is-round/)

[^surround-the-fun]: [Sid Meier Alpha Centauri Development on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri#Development)

[^x-card]: [X-Card by John Stavropoulos](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SB0jsx34bWHZWbnNIVVuMjhDkrdFGo1_hSC2BWPlI3A/edit#heading=h.sge2nj90o9w0)
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