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Storyteller vs Storybuilder

A game is a set-up, an environment, for stories to happen to players.  A game is not a story. A game has a story. In fact a game has infinite stories. The story emerge, is created as players play, move, explore, interact with this imaginary world. Consequently, every player experience a different story. Every player´s story is different from each other. It´s unique.  It´s not like cinema, where the story is the same every time. Of course, after watching a movie, a group of friends can exchange points of view and discover that everyone has interpreted and understood scenes in different way. Even every spectator in a movie can see things other not. But it is not because of the story plot. The narrative is the same. Those differences come from the interaction between the previous experiences, expectations, knowledge and, of course, if someone was passing with pop-corn in front of the viewer as some particular detail was presented. But essentially, the story is exactly the same. From the d