Tonal Game Theory

Tonal Arena - Floating Phrases

Sparse ecology: rarer mating (12%), faster deaths, sibling/parent mating blocked, toroidal wrap. Full phrases, slow cadence.

Selection Mutation

gen=0 | agents=0 | births=0 | deaths=0 | avg energy=0.00 | entropy=0.00

wrap edges; mate @ 12% (no parent/sibling); overcrowding raises metabolism; child phrase = left(A)+right(B)

Tonal Arena - Sparse Ecology

This arena is an ecology of moving phrases. Each agent has:

• a tone (irony, sincerity, zeal, despair, reverence, indifference)
• a short phrase in that tone
• energy, age, and a position in the arena

When phrases collide, they exchange a small energy payoff based on their tones. Sometimes they mate: the child phrase is built from the left half of one parent and the right half of the other, with a small mutation based on the Mutation setting.

Selection controls how strongly these payoffs affect energy and survival. Overcrowding increases metabolism so the population does not blow up.

Use Reseed to start over, Step to advance one tick, Run and Stop to animate. Copy Snapshot copies a JSON dump of the current agents. Download saves this app as a single HTML file.