In questo casual strategy word game, i giocatori passano da una parola casuale all'altra incatenando sinonimi. Narrato da Richard Dawkins, il gioco svela percorsi in una vasta rete in cui ogni parola si collega attraverso significati condivisi. Un grafico 3D modella questi legami, con le parole come pianeti attratti da una gravità relazionale.
La modalità multiplayer permette di sfidare gli amici, mentre le sfide globali settimanali oppongono gli utenti a parole di partenza e arrivo fisse. I percorsi scoperti si condividono su Twitter e Facebook. Appassionati di educazione e fan dei puzzle con le parole apprezzano il design non-profit, con tutti i profitti devoluti in beneficenza.
Synonymy is a non-profit, educational word game narrated by Richard Dawkins where players are challenged to find a path between random words through their network of synonyms. By taking the synonym of a word, and then a synonym of that synonym, and so on, you can ultimately arrive at any other word in a language.
The game supports multiplayer, and weekly challenges in which users can compete globally on set start and end words. Every time a path is uncovered by a user, it is tweeted from @synonymygame and posted to our Facebook page. All profits go to educational charities.
A visualization of the game's network can be seen here -- http://tinyurl.com/med6g8b -- In order to compute relative distance, all synonyms were mapped using 3d graphing software, as if each word were a planet that had a gravitational pull proportional to its number of relationships to other nodes. Above is a 2D representation of that model, a 40,000 x 40,000 rendering.
Music by Daduk
