WORK INSIDE THE FICTION
The interface is part of the learning surface. Applications, hubs and operations are presented like real in-world systems, not abstract menu trees.
PRIMARY SIGNAL
MODE // NEUTRAL
ONE INCIDENT. TWO SIDES. EVERY ACTION LEAVES A TRACE.
ONE INCIDENT. TWO SIDES.
TRACEWAKE is a single-player cyber security simulation built around believable work, incomplete information, operational pressure and consequences. Enter through Aurelius or Ghostline, but remember: the incident does not change — only your perspective does.
EXPERIENCE PROFILE
SIMULATED WORK // CONSEQUENCE-DRIVEN
WHAT IS TRACEWAKE?
A CYBER SECURITY SIMULATION BUILT AROUND THE WORK.
TRACEWAKE is a single-player cyber security simulation where the same hidden incident can be experienced from both sides. Investigate, correlate evidence and contain through Aurelius, or build intelligence and pursue the operation through Ghostline.
TWO SIDES OF THE SAME INCIDENT
Aurelius approaches the event through defence, investigation and containment. Ghostline approaches it through contracts, access paths, intel and exposure.
PRESSURE WITH CONSEQUENCE
Signals compete for your attention. Time moves. People react. Choices can protect security while harming continuity — or preserve business while leaving risk alive.
CURRENT BUILD // LIVE VISUALS
ALPHA // IN-GAME SCREENS
CURRENT SIGNAL
WHAT TRACEWAKE LOOKS LIKE RIGHT NOW.
These are the actual current home and gameplay screens. Aurelius and BLACKWIRE already have distinct identities, and the website uses that live build language as its visual anchor.
AURELIUS // OPERATIONS
AURELIUS SECURE DESKTOP
The defender-side role hub for operations, intel briefings, mail, directory access and ongoing security work.
GHOSTLINE // BLACKWIRE
BLACKWIRE RELAY
Ghostline’s contract, intelligence and consequence network — dense, transactional and very deliberately not just “Aurelius in red.”
AURELIUS // ACTIVE GAMEPLAY
LIVE WORKSTATION & TIMELINE RECONSTRUCTION
During live operations, players investigate across windows, collect evidence and reconstruct what happened. The timeline screen shows TRACEWAKE teaching through interaction instead of explanation alone.
GHOSTLINE // ACTIVE GAMEPLAY
LIVE OPERATIONS WORKSPACE
Ghostline gameplay runs inside its own operational workspace, with reconnaissance, contacts, access, countermeasures, intel and handler guidance shaping the route through the same incident from the other side.
SYSTEMS OVERVIEW
ROLES // OPERATIONS // CONSEQUENCES
HOW IT PLAYS
ENTER AURELIUS. CONNECT TO BLACKWIRE.
TRACEWAKE has named world identities, not anonymous red-vs-blue skins. The public-facing language is Aurelius, Ghostline and BLACKWIRE — because that is what players actually enter.
AURELIUS
Investigate live signals, verify evidence, manage operational noise and contain credible threats without losing sight of the organisation.
GHOSTLINE
Build the picture, exploit the gap and complete the contract while tracking exposure, traces, credits and the paths you leave behind.
CORE PROMISE
- Believable fictional workplace tools
- Shared incidents viewed from opposite sides
- Interactive investigation and reconstruction
- Consequences that survive the operation
CONCEPT DIRECTION
Earlier hub prototype explorations still inform the tone of the project, but are presented here honestly as concept direction rather than final screens.
DEVELOPMENT SIGNAL
LIVE STATUS // CURRENT FOCUS
ALPHA STATUS
BUILT IN THE OPEN. REFINED IN THE DETAILS.
TRACEWAKE is an independent Wolf Interactive project in active alpha development. Aurelius and Ghostline are being developed as distinct operational experiences inside the same campaign world, with each side carrying its own interface, priorities and consequences.
●AURELIUS // LIVE BUILDOperations hub, workstation flow and incident interaction already represented in-game.
●GHOSTLINE // LIVE BUILDBLACKWIRE identity, contracts, feed, exposure and progression presentation are established.
○PERSISTENT CAMPAIGN LAYEROperations, consequences, progression and role memory continue to evolve across both sides.
○WEB PRESENCEThis site mirrors the game language and can evolve alongside the project rather than sitting outside it.
DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL
WOLF INTERACTIVE // FIELD NOTES
FOLLOW THE DEVELOPMENT
WANT TO SEE HOW TRACEWAKE GETS BUILT?
The Wolf Interactive development journal keeps the trail: design changes, prototypes, private-alpha lessons, systems that worked, systems that absolutely did not, and the decisions that pushed TRACEWAKE toward Aurelius, Ghostline, VIGIL and BLACKWIRE.
OPEN THE TRACEWAKE JOURNAL ↗
ABOUT TRACEWAKE
WOLF INTERACTIVE // INDEPENDENT PROJECT
“Security is rarely a clean choice between right and wrong. Sometimes it is a choice between what you can prove, what you can protect, and what you are willing to risk.”
TRACEWAKE
Contain or compromise. Same incident. Different perspective.
WOLF INTERACTIVE
MAKE. EXPLORE. EVOLVE.