Questions
What people ask us, and what we answer.
Straight, including about what this game does not do.
Is this worth a first aid qualification?
No, and that is not a turn of phrase: there is no assessment here, no validation, no certificate. A first aid qualification like the French PSC1 is taken in front of an instructor, with a manikin, and it checks things nobody can check through a screen.
What this game does, though, a course does not: it replays as many times as you like, free, six months or six years later. It is upkeep, not a replacement.
Where do the actions come from?
From the French public guidelines: the national PSC1 syllabus issued by the civil safety directorate of the Ministry of the Interior, the public guidance of the Croix-Rouge française, the Ministry of the Interior's own fact sheets, those of the fire and rescue services, and those of the national health insurance body. The emergency numbers stay French for the same reason: 15 reaches the medical emergency service, 18 the fire and rescue service, 112 works across the European Union, and 114 takes emergencies by text message, chat and video for deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing and speech-impaired people. A number does not translate, it changes country.
Every verdict in the game carries the source it rests on, with the exact quotation and the date it was checked. Those quotations stay in French, word for word: there is no official English version of these documents, and a quotation that has been reworded is no longer a quotation. The site's open data lists them all, in JSON, situation by situation.
And when the sources disagree?
The nature of the disagreement gets measured before anything is written. When two sources describe different situations there is no disagreement, there is a scope: the warning triangle falls into that category, and the game teaches it, in the order its source lays down. When two sources genuinely conflict on the same action, the game names the divergence and follows the national guidance: that is what happens on the recovery position, which public pages prescribe without the condition the national guidance places on it.
An action only leaves the game when no official public source carries it. That has happened once: opening the visor of a helmet, which several associations recommend and which no official public source we found puts in writing. Ambiguous guidance gets cut, it does not get guessed.
What data do you collect?
None. No account, no form, no measurement tool in these pages, no third-party service, no remote font, no cookie banner because there is nothing to consent to.
What gets saved lives in your browser and stays there: your settings and your progress. The “My progress” page shows you exactly what is in there, and one button wipes it. Check it in thirty seconds in the network inspector of any browser.
Why is it free?
Because this is a non-profit association under the French law of 1901 with an educational purpose, and charging for practice in the actions that save lives would be the exact opposite of why it exists. There is no advertising, no paid version, no data harvest to sell on: by construction, there is nothing here to monetise.
May I reuse the content?
Yes. The content is under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licence: reuse, modification, commercial use, all permitted as long as you credit where it comes from. The cards print, photocopy and slip into a training booklet without asking us.
The Licence page sets out what is covered and what is not.
Why are the scenes drawn rather than filmed?
For three reasons, in this order. A line drawing has no face to respect and no blood to show: the seriousness comes from a sign, never from realism. A drawn scene replays with reduced animation without anyone having to shoot a second version. And five files of under sixty kilobytes each work offline, which a video does not.
Does the game work with no connection?
Yes, once the page has been visited one time. The site installs like an app and replays entirely offline. That is the point of its tagline: the day you need this, there is not always a signal.
I have found a medical error. What do I do?
Write to us, and we will correct it or take it out. Wrong first aid content is worse than no content at all, and a reasoned correction with its public source is the best service anyone can do this project. The address is on the Contact page.