A city game where your choices change the weather.
Khufu is a Signal Guardian in a block city under the Glitchstorm, a data typhoon that feeds on rushed choices. Talk to the neighbors, check what you are shown, spot the fakes, catch the phish, keep your accounts your own, mind what you paste into AI, keep your cool when a chat turns ugly, hold each district and face the last storm. Think first, and the sky clears.
In the lab: every district is built, from Guardian Yard and Chat Plaza to The Commons, and the Core Tower, the finale, opens once The Commons is sealed. Click or tap where you want to go; the arrow keys and W A S D work too.
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How it works
Stormproof teaches five habits, one district at a time, with cases from adult life: mostly at home in Guided (a chatbot that wants your birthday, a clip of a bank about to close, a delivery text with a small fee, a call from a nephew in trouble, a weather app that wants your contacts, an AI summary with the wrong meeting time, a neighbors’ chat that turns on someone) and at work in Expert (a work chatbot that wants your employee ID, a cloned chief executive, a supplier’s new bank details, a first-day picture with your badge in it, a support ticket with a client’s live key in it, a reply-all you want to answer in anger). Every reply plays out, so you see what happens next, and a wrong one lets you try again. There is no game over and nothing to pay for.
AI can sound sure and still be wrong. A chatbot is not a confidant, a clip can be faked, and a cloned voice can ask for money.
Urgency is a tool scammers use. A sender’s name can say anything, a caller can sound like your bank, and an invoice can quietly change its account.
Your accounts and your data: some facts are only yours. A passphrase can give you away, an app can ask for more than it needs, and a picture can show more than you meant.
AI at work: check what it gives you, and own what you send. A summary can say what its source never did, a note you paste can carry what is not yours to share, and a familiar voice can be copied.
How people treat each other online, and what to do when it goes wrong. A like can join a pile-on, an angry reply can stay up for years, and the order you report something in matters.
Use everything you learned. Cases that each mix two districts’ habits, the five habits in order with one trap among them, and a last storm with every kind of glitch at once. Seal it, and the storm breaks.
Two ways to play. Guided, the default, gives a hint after your first miss, suggests towers for each wave and stops to introduce each new glitch. Expert has harder cases, and gives hints and advice only when you ask.
New kinds of job at the docks. Hold a lens over a message to see where it really comes from, sort an inbox, take a call that wants a code, and compare two invoices. Each job there has more than one case: a new game deals one, and once a job is done, Try another case plays the next as practice, with no coins and no change to the storm. The coins you earn buy upgrades at the Upgrade Bench, and none of them answers for you; the Signal Ride takes you to any district you have opened.
And in the gardens. Build a passphrase from word tiles while a lock checks it against what anyone can see about you, switch off what an app does not need, blur what a picture gives away before you post it, and sort a profile into what is public and what is only yours. The data snatchers that come over the hedge are pushed back by a Privacy Dome, and only a zap stops one.
And in the Spire. Check an AI tool’s draft against its source and flag every line the source does not back, black out what must not go into a tool before you paste, sort what is fine to paste from what stays out, and take a call from a voice that sounds just like your boss. Scroll fog, rumor wisps and fake-faces come down from the Spire: Focus Lamps burn the fog away, and Fact Beacons hurt the rest.
And in the Commons. Play a group chat that is turning on someone, where what you say, send privately or do changes how it ends; wait before you answer a message that made you angry, then cut the words built to hurt; put the steps in order when it goes wrong, saving the evidence before you report and block; and sort what to report from what to let go. Rumor wisps, fake-faces and data snatchers come across the green: Kindness Bells clear the rumors, Fact Beacons hurt the fakes, and a Privacy Dome pushes the snatchers back.
And in the Core Tower, the finale. An AI coach that wants your health records, an app that wants every contact you have, an account “deleted in five minutes” unless you read back a code, a reward for leaving someone out: each mixes two districts’ habits. Luma’s console plays the five habits as lights; press the safe ones in the order they came, and leave out the one trap (in Guided it is red; in Expert it borrows a habit’s words). The last storm brings every kind of glitch at once, with a pad for every tower. Seal the Core and the storm breaks: the game is won, and the city stays open, with every job that has another case ready to play again on it.
With a team or a class. Play a district, then talk it through: has a message, a clip, a call, a chatbot or an AI summary ever sounded very sure, or very urgent, and been wrong? Has a group chat ever turned on someone you know? Seal a district and its page joins your playbook, to keep or print.
What it keeps and what it sends. Your progress stays in this browser, under one name, si:stormproof; Clear my progress removes it. If you have a profile on this device, it also notes that you finished, as it does for every piece. The game asks for no name and sends nothing. Like the rest of the site, except Signify Kids and the profile, this page is counted by Cloudflare Web Analytics: it records the visit and how quickly the page loads and responds, which can name one of the game’s buttons, such as a reply. The privacy page says more.
Your playbook
The habits from each district you have sealed, on one page to keep or print.
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Your journal
Every lesson you learn in the game becomes a page here.