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In one sentence

Before Help Arrives is a free web game that makes people practise the actions that save lives through played-out situations, published by ODERSA, a non-profit association under the French law of 1901 with an educational purpose.

In one paragraph

France teaches the actions that save lives once, at school or at driving school, then almost never again. Before Help Arrives drills those actions through played-out situations, where the scene stops dead on a decision, where a mistake plays out before it gets explained, and where you pick up at the last checkpoint until the right move becomes a reflex. 20 situations are playable out of 20 planned, with 100 decision points and 69 public sources quoted with their exact passage. The game is free, needs no account, collects no data, plays offline, and its content is under the open CC BY 4.0 licence.

100decision pointsacross the 20 situations
140canonical actionseach one with its public source
15the first reflexor 18, or 112
0pieces of data collectedno external connection

What sets the project apart

  • A rhythm mini-game for chest compressions: thirty seconds to hold between 100 and 120 compressions per minute, with fatigue making the tempo slip. It teaches what no video passes on, namely that it is exhausting.
  • An interactive defibrillator: the device gives its instructions one at a time and waits for each one to be done, like the real thing.
  • Every action stated carries its public source, its exact quotation and the date it was checked. When two sets of guidance genuinely conflict, the game names the divergence and follows the national guidance; an action no official public source carries leaves the game.
  • No data collected, no third-party service, no cookie banner: checkable in the network inspector of any browser.
  • Fully playable by keyboard, with reduced animation, with subtitles for every sound.

Visuals and data

The sharing imagePNG, 1200 × 630The wordmarkVector SVGThe open dataCounters and index of situationsContact the projectA person answers

Please do not present this game as a course or as an equivalent of the French PSC1 certificate: it is neither, and the precision is part of what makes the project serious.