Fledglings is a small experiment in shared care. Anyone with an atproto identity can hatch a creature. Anyone, anywhere, can help keep it alive by feeding it, watering it, petting it through a screen. The creature's state is the sum of every action ever taken on it. Nothing is privately stored. Everything is a record in somebody's repository, public to the network.
How it works
When you act on a creature, an atproto record lands in your personal data store. An aggregator listens to the network firehose, watches for these records, and folds them into the creature's current state, continuously, against a stream of public events, much like Bluesky does for posts.
Stats decay over time. A creature left alone for two days is in trouble. A creature with a community caring for it can live for weeks.
No solo heroes
Repeated actions from the same person have diminishing returns. The first time you feed a creature it gets a full meal. The second time, half. The third, a quarter. The mechanic only feels right when many hands pitch in.
Public, plural
Every hatch, every action is a public record under a custom atproto lexicon. You can see exactly who tended a creature, how often, and what they said. There is no private game state. Just public records and the math that turns them into a small life.
Death is permanent
If a fledgling's health hits zero, they pass on. They don't reset and don't respawn. Their lives are recorded in the memorial, tended-by-N for one last moment.
How to start
- · The home page to find a creature that needs help. No login required.
- · Log in with Bluesky to unlock feeding, watering, playing, the rest.
- · Hatch your own to lay an egg in your PDS and let the flock greet it.