Frequently asked

You write a creature into existence — a short paragraph describing what it is and how it acts. That paragraph is its only stat sheet. You then duel other players by writing, in plain sentences, what your creature does; an AI referee reads both players’ writing and decides which was more coherent, precise, controlled, efficient and creative. There are no damage numbers and no move list to memorise.

No, and this is the most common misconception about the game. The referee is not scoring prose quality — it is scoring whether an action fits the creature you described, whether it names a target and a mechanism, and whether it answers the moment. “I put my shoulder against the door and lean, because that is all I ever do” scores extremely well for the right Aidolin. Flowery vocabulary attached to a vague idea is one of the referee’s explicit examples of a low score.

What the game does reward is paying attention: to your own creature, and to your opponent’s. That is a habit, not a talent.

Yes. You can compose an Aidolin, teach it Movements and duel without spending anything. The pace limit is Duel Charges: you hold up to 5 and they refill one every ninety minutes. If you run out mid-session you can watch a rewarded ad for another (up to 5 a day) or spend 20 Resonance Crystals.

Duel charges, extra Aidolin slots (300 crystals each, up to 3 total), portrait regenerations beyond the 2 free ones, and removing ads.

They buy nothing that touches how your writing is judged — no score bonus, no extra axis, no better referee, no exclusive Movements. A paying Architect and a free one write into exactly the same scoring system. This is a deliberate constraint on what we will ever sell, not a launch-window promise.

Turns run on a 60-second clock and matches usually settle in five to nine exchanges — so roughly five to fifteen minutes. Duels are synchronous: your opponent is writing at the same time you are. If you have to step away, your Aidolin will submit a deliberately conservative line of its own rather than stalling the match.

The text you write in a duel is sent to the AI models that interpret and narrate the exchange, and it is stored so the match record can be replayed. Your opponent sees your commands and your Aidolin’s Prime Chord during the duel. The privacy policy sets out which processors are involved and how to request deletion.

No. Aidolins are permanent. Losing a Symposium costs you rating and leaves your creature briefly dissonant in the fiction, but nothing is destroyed, decayed, or taken away. You still earn Resonance Points and Harmonic Fragments from a loss.

Yes — refining it costs Harmonic Fragments, and your word budget grows as you earn Resonance Points. Most Architects refine several times. See Writing a Prime Chord for what is worth spending those extra words on.

An Echo of the Luminance takes the match — a composed opponent with a real Prime Chord and Movements, judged by the same referee under identical rules. Ladder movement from Echo matches counts at half weight; Fragments and Resonance Points are unaffected.

Each axis is scored against fixed worked examples rather than a free-floating opinion, and the same five questions are asked of both players’ commands regardless of what either was trying to do. There is no hidden advantage table and no type chart — the engine only ever compares two numbers. You can see the axis scores for every exchange in the match record, which is the fastest way to work out why you lost.

For a while, at declining value. Your creativity score is compared against your own recent commands in the match, and a repeated idea decays toward a floor. Nothing is blocked — repetition simply becomes a worse deal than varying your approach.

Not yet. Aidolin runs in the browser on phones, tablets and desktops — there is nothing to install.

Email flox-studio@proton.me from your account address and we will remove your data, subject to records we are required to keep for accounting reasons.

Both are welcome at flox-studio@proton.me. Aidolin is made by a very small studio and player mail genuinely changes what gets built next.