# A gentle introduction to the minimal Naming Game

## TL;DR

This paper introduces the Naming Game model, illustrating how local interactions among individuals can spontaneously lead to the emergence of shared social conventions across different network structures.

## Contribution

It provides a comprehensive, accessible overview of the Naming Game, including its dynamics in various social network configurations and the effects of rule modifications.

## Key findings

- Local interactions can lead to global coordination.
- Network structure influences the emergence of conventions.
- Modifications to rules can sustain multiple conventions.

## Abstract

Social conventions govern countless behaviors all of us engage in every day, from how we greet each other to the languages we speak. But how can shared conventions emerge spontaneously in the absence of a central coordinating authority? The Naming Game model shows that networks of locally interacting individuals can spontaneously self-organize to produce global coordination. Here, we provide a gentle introduction to the main features of the model, from the dynamics observed in homogeneously mixing populations to the role played by more complex social networks, and to how slight modifications of the basic interaction rules give origin to a richer phenomenology in which more conventions can co-exist indefinitely.