Game development

La agencia del jugador choca con el guion cerrado: player agency collides with a closed script. This is the one entry on the list where English is the wider word and Spanish the narrower, which is why the Spanish phrase reads like a borrowing — it is one. « Agency » holds two things at once in English: an organisation that acts on somebody's behalf, and the capacity to act at all. Design writing uses the second, and player agency is the sense that what the player did mattered. Spanish la agencia kept only the first — la agencia de viajes, la agencia tributaria — so la agencia del jugador has to be read as a term of art, and a Spanish speaker wanting to say the thing plainly says la capacidad de decidir. It is worth knowing in both directions: « agency » rendered as agencia in a sentence about power rather than about travel produces something no Spanish reader outside this field will follow.