Heli Rescue

A 3D rescue-helicopter game for young kids (around age 5), made for phones and tablets.

Fly a rescue helicopter over a big world of farms, cities, forests, mountains and coast. Missions pop up one after another: a farmer needs a doctor, hikers are stuck on a mountain, a ship is sinking, campers are lost in the forest. Fly there, winch the people aboard and bring them back to a rescue base. Keep an eye on the fuel gauge and refuel at a base.

Buttons let you change the weather and the time of day, switch the camera, or let the robot pilot fly.

• 🏠 in the corner goes back to the list of all games.

Play: https://tb-x.github.io/heli-rescue/

Play offline (add to Home Screen)

On iPhone or iPad, open the game in Safari, tap Share → Add to Home Screen, then open it once from the new icon while online. After that it starts full screen and works without internet. Changes arrive on their own: the next online launch downloads them and the one after shows them.

(How: manifest.webmanifest gives the icon and full-screen mode; sw.js, a service worker, keeps a copy of every file the game uses, including three.js, its add-ons and the font. The icons icon-180.png and icon-512.png are rendered from icon.svg in headless Chrome.)

Running locally

It is a single index.html with no build step. three.js 0.170 and its addons load from jsDelivr through an import map. Serve the folder over HTTP, for example:

python -m http.server 8917

Then open http://localhost:8917. All sounds are synthesized in the browser.