Database Defender

Built for the GMTK Game Jam 2024 to fit the theme Built to Scale

In Database Defender, you step into the shoes of a DevOps engineer tasked with defending a rapidly growing web application from waves of user traffic and malicious attacks. As user demand surges, your servers must efficiently handle incoming traffic while specialized firewalls fend off crippling DDoS attacks. Strategically place and upgrade your infrastructure to ensure your app scales smoothly under pressure, keeping user satisfaction high and downtime minimal.

This is my first real game so any feedback is welcome. I ran out of time for more levels in the end but hope you enjoy! It should be playable in the browser here on Itch but I've included a Windows download too.

All assets are made by me except for the font which is from google fonts

How to Play

Traffic from your web application's users will flow through your network. Periodically, there'll be a DDoS attack where malicious actors will try overload your servers and bring down your app!

Select a node on the network graph to deploy servers and firewalls there to handle incoming traffic before it overwhelms your database.

- Servers can process a certain number of incoming packets before needing to reboot for a few seconds. 

- Firewalls can only deal with incoming DDoS attacks (red packets) and will ignore user traffic

Successfully processing incoming packets will earn you money to purchase more infrastructure and keep up with the scale.