pshenok/server-survival
Tower defense game that teaches cloud architecture. Build infrastructure, survive traffic, learn scaling.
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Where it stands
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1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 89 days ago, with 30 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #22 in the weekly ranking the week of Feb 15, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Simulates building and scaling cloud infrastructure in a 3D tower defense game to teach cloud architecture concepts interactively.
- Combines real-time cloud infrastructure management with gamified learning, enabling hands-on experience with scaling, budgeting, and security.
- Use for educating developers and students on cloud architecture principles through an engaging, interactive simulation game.
- Use for practicing traffic management and scaling strategies in a risk-free sandbox environment with customizable traffic and budget settings.
- Use for training DevOps teams on handling DDoS attacks, service degradation, and cost optimization in a dynamic cloud infrastructure scenario.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Server Survival is an interactive 3D simulation game where you play as a Cloud Architect. Your mission is to build and scale a resilient cloud infrastructure to handle increasing traffic loads while fighting off DDoS attacks, managing your budget, and keeping your services healthy.
Survive as long as possible! Manage your Budget ($), Reputation (%), and Service Health.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
715+17
Open issues
21+3
Compared with peers in Cloud
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asymptote-Labs/agent-beacon | 3.3K | +360 | 40 | today |
| juicedata/juicefs | 14.7K | +105 | 64 | 14 days ago |
| GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo | 21.1K | — | 63 | 38 days ago |
| quarkusio/quarkus | 16.0K | — | 60 | 2 days ago |
| awslabs/mcp | 9.8K | — | 65 | 9 days ago |
| pshenok/server-survival | 6.5K | — | 46 | 89 days ago |
| Category median | 14.7K | +233 | 63 | — |
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