ThreatPulse 🛡️

ThreatPulse is a 3-minute interactive cybersecurity playground built for learning core defense concepts through touch-based decisions.

Overview

In each run, players protect an app server from DDoS, malware, and phishing traffic by activating the right defense at the right node and time.

Learning Goals 🎯

• Understand the difference between DDoS, malware, and phishing.
• Practice defense timing under pressure.
• Learn defense-in-depth through combo effects.
• Make risk tradeoff decisions and review outcomes.

3-Minute Experience ⏱️

1. Start simulation (180 seconds).
2. Monitor attack flow across network nodes.
3. Activate defenses with cooldown and energy constraints.
4. Respond to decision events and threat intel prompts.
5. Complete a debrief quiz and mission takeaway.

Key Features ⚙️

• Real-time network attack visualization
• Node-based defense controls
• Decision events with consequences
• Threat Intel pause overlays
• Combo defense effects
• Demo Skip (for presentation only)
• Debrief quiz and personalized mission takeaway

Tech Stack 🧰

• Swift
• SwiftUI
• AVFoundation
• App Playground format (.swiftpm)

Run ▶️

Open in:

• Swift Playgrounds 4.6+
• Xcode 26+

Offline Use 📶

Designed for offline execution.
All required runtime assets for local builds are bundled in the project.

Third-Party Media Notes 🎵

The original submission build used Pixabay-licensed audio with in-app credits.
This public repository does not include third-party audio files to avoid redistributing media.

Authorship 👤

Core design, gameplay logic, and implementation: Bryan Zhang.
OpenAI Codex provided limited assistance for Liquid Glass styling and secondary UI layout refinements.