--- title: pshenok/server-survival: Tower defense game that teaches... description: An interactive 3D tower defense game that teaches cloud infrastructure concepts through gameplay. Players act as cloud architects, building and scaling systems... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ezkjimrav twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: pshenok/server-survival: Tower defense game that teaches cloud architecture. Build infrastructure, survive traffic, learn scaling. | daily.dev og:description: An interactive 3D tower defense game that teaches cloud infrastructure concepts through gameplay. Players act as cloud architects, building and scaling systems... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ezkjimrav og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/eZKJIMrav.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # pshenok/server-survival: Tower defense game that teaches cloud architecture. Build infrastructure, survive traffic, learn scaling. **[Matthew Laird](https://daily.dev/sources/u-uk0giik)** · [@hvk500](https://daily.dev/hvk500) · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An interactive 3D tower defense game that teaches cloud infrastructure concepts through gameplay. Players act as cloud architects, building and scaling systems using AWS-inspired services (WAF, ALB, EC2, RDS, S3) to handle traffic loads and DDoS attacks while managing budget and reputation. Features survival and sandbox modes, service upgrades, and smart load balancing. Built with vanilla JavaScript and Three.js, requiring no build step to run. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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