Your shift starts at IAD42. Take the train out through Ashburn, badge in and pick up your kit.
Best played on a desktop with a mouse and keyboard. Touch controls work too.
PLATFORM-LIFE 4
MISSION: BanHammer
Cage 7 has a crypto problem. Miners keep popping up on the servers and burning power you're paying for. Find them, get close and bring the hammer down.
26 racks in two rows of 13 with a 6 ft contained cold aisle. Miners can show up on either side of a server: the cold-aisle front or the hot-aisle rear. Every second a miner runs costs you money, and older miners cost more. Hit a clean server and you pay for the outage.
Miners heat the cage. If it reaches the CO2 trip point, an 8-second alarm sounds, then the fire suppression system floods the room and you pass out. Ban enough miners to cool it down before that. Survive a shift and the next one is busier, runs hotter and trips sooner.
WASDWalk (Shift to hurry)MOUSELook (click the game to lock the mouse, or drag)CLICK / SPACESwing the ban hammerM / NMute all / music onlyTOUCHLeft thumb walks, right thumb looks, BAN swings
PAUSED
The miners are paused too.
SHIFT OVER
Revenue lost to mining$0Miners banned0Best streak0Outages you caused0Miners still running0
MMR-9G
Tonight's customers. Each needs enough fiber between its two racks to stay green.
HIT + HITHit one rack with the PATCH hammer, then another. That lays a 400G fiber.HOPSTraffic can go through SPARE racks or other customers' racks too.FORECASTThe meter shows demand ahead (peak cat video at 21:00) and when backhoes are due. +1 means patch one more.BACKHOEIt digs up fiber at a pink X. Hit it to send it away, re-patch what it cuts.REDStay short too long and the racks spark, then blow. Don't look into the laser.
PAUSED
The cats will wait. Briefly.
SHIFT OVER
SLA credits paid out$0Fibers patched0Fibers cut0Backhoes sent away0Peak demand0
CAGE 12
Deploys come in along the fiber runner and drop into their team's rack. A rack with no free compute fails them: they go red and hit the floor. Servers are on pallets outside the cage.
PICK UPUSE a pallet to lift a server. You carry one at a time.RACK ITUSE a rack while carrying. It boots in 3s, then takes deploys.DASHBOARDLoad per rack, the day's forecast and spikes ahead. +1 means rack one more there.MOVEEmpty-handed, USE a rack to pull a server out of a quiet one.REDFailed deploys burn error budget. Run out and you get paged.