Fly Escape Room: first game with NPCs powered by a real fruit fly brain, all 166k neurons
juanbenet · x · 2026-09-09
Developer dzhng unveiled Fly Escape Room, billed as the world's first game with NPCs powered by a real fruit fly brain — a full simulation of all 166k neurons. Players drop food and objects into the scene, run the simulation, and try to get every fly to escape. The project was reportedly built with GPT-6 Astra in a 3-day loop. Protocol Labs founder Juan Benet amplified it, noting the 'fly world' is getting closer and calling for criteria and a scale to rate levels of realness/upload.
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