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🗣️ Language Convergence Network: 2D Naming Game

Naming game on a social network: speakers negotiate words, vocabularies converge, committed minorities tip the community.

Physics & Mechanics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 2D version

Details

CategoryPhysics & Mechanics

RenderingCanvas 2D

DifficultyModerate

Target FPS60

ControlsSliders for number of speakers, neighbours, long-range shortcuts, committed share and speed; committed placement selector; presets (consensus, global village, dialects, committed minorities, rival blocs); click speakers to commit, forget or seed words and drag them to rearrange.

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⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 2D naming game on a small-world social network: speakers negotiate words, vocabularies converge or split into dialects, and committed minorities can tip the whole community. Live vocabulary, success-rate and consensus graph.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install