DesktopFly
A downloadable game for Windows
Description
DesktopFly is a digital fly that lives on your desktop. Its escape reflex is driven by a real-time simulation of the Drosophila brain connectome (~140,000 neurons) — when your cursor moves nearby, signals propagate through the neural network and trigger the fly's escape behavior.
Wandering and grooming are procedural behaviors layered on top of the neural simulation to keep the fly alive and interactive on your screen.
You can grab the fly with your mouse and drag it wherever you want. No two flies behave exactly the same.
Controls
Left Click: Grab and drag the fly
Right Click: Open context menu (Quit)
Disclaimers / Notes
First launch may take 10–30 seconds while the neural simulation loads. Please wait.
Some antivirus software may flag the .exe as suspicious. This is a false positive from PyInstaller.
Requires Windows 10/11 (64-bit).
Credits
DesktopFly created by notdekoy
Brain simulation based on fly-brain-snntorch by Michał Antropik (Neuromorphicism), used under the MIT License.
Original data from the FlyWire project.
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Install instructions
How to run:
Download the ZIP archive.
Extract it to a simple path (e.g., C:\DesktopFly). Avoid paths with spaces or non-English characters.
Run DesktopFly.exe.
First launch may take 10–30 seconds while the neural simulation loads. Please wait.
Controls:
Left Click: Grab and drag the fly
Right Click: Open context menu (Quit)
Note: Some antivirus software may flag the .exe as suspicious. This is a false positive from PyInstaller. You may need to add it to your antivirus exceptions.
Requirements: Windows 10/11 (64-bit). No additional libraries required.
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oh mate is there some github? i want it on linux T_T