Flytama docs
Everything you need to raise a fruit fly with a real brain — from your first meal to your first reward round.
Getting started
Flytama is a virtual pet on Robinhood Chain. Each pet is a fruit fly whose behaviour comes from a simulated fly brain. Only 100 flies will ever exist.
- Try the demo first. Play opens the demo when no wallet is connected: a sample fly, fake points, the real rules. Nothing is saved.
- Connect a wallet (MetaMask, Rabby or another browser wallet) and sign the sign-in message. Signing is free and sends no transaction. You sign again on every visit.
- Adopt a fly. Minting starts at 0.0015 ETH and rises ×1.25 every 10 flies. A wallet can hold at most 5 flies. Each new fly comes with 12 food points and a full stomach.
- Its DNA is revealed a few seconds after the mint: body colour, eyes, wings, size, rarity and the genes that tune its brain.
Caring for your fly
Your fly lives on its own LCD screen. Four controls keep it going:
- Feed — fills the food meter. The meter holds 16 hours of food.
- Clean — keeps it tidy and happy. Once every 4 hours.
- Play — makes it happier and costs energy. Once an hour.
- Sleep — a sleeping fly gets its energy back faster. Wake it when you want to play.
Energy, cleanliness and happiness set its mood. The game never sends alerts — check in at least every 16 hours.
Food & points
Food costs points. Every food gives 4 hours per point; better food earns more appreciation.
| Food | Points | Food time | Appreciation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | 1 | 4 h | +1 |
| Good | 2 | 8 h | +3 |
| Premium | 3 | 12 h | +6 |
- Points come from holding the game token. Every 48 hours you get 1 point per 10,000 tokens held above a 100,000-token minimum, counted on your lowest balance since the last drop.
- Each fly eats about 6 points a day, so plan on roughly 120,000 tokens per fly above the minimum.
- If your balance sits at zero, your points halve every hour. Points can be gifted to another wallet on Food & points.
- Food that doesn't fit in the meter is wasted and earns no appreciation.
Death & revive
- When the food meter hits zero, the fly dies. You then have 12 hours to revive it for 0.003 ETH.
- After a revive, feed it within 10 minutes — or it is gone for good.
- A fly that is gone for good stays as a memorial in the graveyard. You can release (burn) a memorial to free its slot.
Reward rounds
Every 12 hours a reward round ends. Flies with a full round meter split the round's pool equally.
| Care | Meter | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Fed hour (≥ 4 h food left) | +5 | 60 / round |
| Food | +1 / +3 / +6 | 12 / round |
| Clean | +20 | every 4 h |
| Play | +8 | every 1 h |
- The meter needs 100. It can't reach 100 before the round's 11th hour, and one visit tops out at 96 — so a full meter takes at least two visits in the round.
- To share the pool a fly must be alive at the end, must not have died during the round, and must have kept the same owner.
- Payouts go out automatically to your wallet after each round. Empty rounds carry their pool over. The pool is funded by the game token's creator fees.
Marketplace
- Only living flies can be listed and bought, at any price the seller picks.
- The seller gets 95%; 5% buys back the game token and burns it.
- Every fly keeps a public care history — owners, meals, deaths. Read it before you buy.
- A bought fly starts earning rewards from the next round.
The brain & DNA
Each fly's circuits come from FlyWire — the complete wiring map of an adult fruit fly's ~139,000 neurons (v783) — and run on the model Shiu et al. (2024) used to predict real feeding behaviour.
- Sugar taste → feeding · antenna touch → grooming · seeing something → walking · looming → escape.
- DNA genes (appetite, tidiness, curiosity, fearfulness) scale those circuits, so no two flies react quite alike. Brain View shows which neurons fire as it moves.
FAQ
- Does the game notify me? No. That's the deal: come back at least every 16 hours.
- Which chain? Robinhood Chain. Your wallet is asked to add it when you connect.
- Are rewards guaranteed? No. Flies and tokens can lose all value — read the risks.
- Where are the rules? The terms of use and privacy pages.