It’s a great voxel-based arcade game where the goal is to rescue POWs in your helicopter. The challenge is in controlling your helicopter, ensuring it’s still operation even when under attack, and landing safely.
There’s only two buttons you have to care about: the left arrow (or left mouse button) key and the right arrow (or right mouse button) key. Press them together, you go up. Press only the left; you go left; and press only the right, you go right. The shooting is automatic. The entire focus is on keeping your ship in the air.
I’ve spent many, many hours playing this game. After eight years of owning it, I keep coming back. It has this arcade quality about it that simply addictive. And actually, if this game were released for arcades, it would probably be very popular.
This being a voxel-based game, the graphics remind me a lot of Minecraft. However, this is not a sandbox game. It’s more like a 2.5D game that simply uses voxels. Personally, I love voxels – they have a lot of charm.
There’s no music in this game, and I’d probably find it annoying since the ambient effects are on point. I quite like the helicopter sounds and the faint voices heard on radio.
Now if you wonder why I continue to use Windows for gaming, here’s a simple fact: it’s the only platform that Dustoff Heli Rescue is still available. This game started off as a mobile game. Yet, you can no longer find this game on iOS or Android. And the Mac version is no longer playable since it’s not compatible with the new ARM-based Macs. It might be compatible for Linux via Proton, but so far, nobody has tested this to see if it’s actually the case.
This must have been a fairly successful game for developer Invictus Games because, later on, we got Dustoff Heli Rescue 2 and Dustoff Z. I have yet to try either of those sequels, however.
I’ve had a lot of fun with Dustoff Heli Rescue, and I recommend it. As well, it is pretty cheap. Steam sells it for C$4.65
@atomicpoet omg i loved this game, but now it's not on android anymore as far as i can see. it's a shame.
I even wrote about it as an android blogger back in like 2015 - another life :)
@Daojoan@theindex what is the selection criteria for news to make it to the feed? unless it posts every news from everywhere, selection is already an opinion.
nonetheless, i like the goal so keep it up please :)
I didn't know about the Tree of the Year contest but I'm here for it.
I wonder if it's only ever going to be a pageant or will there be other categories for the competition, like fastest tree 400m, tree vs tree cage fight, or tree chess?...
No way! A European Citizens' Initiative to (1) tax millionaires to (2) finance a Green New Deal via EU Commission own funds, and (3) whose proponents are (check notes) the president of the Belgian Socialist Party, a Polish former Employment and Social Inclusion Commissioner and Thomas Piketty (@pikettylemonde), possibly the world's most prominent scholar of inequality.
@alberto_cottica i found it fitting that as of now only france has hit the signee threshold (and o ershot it by like 50%).
Hope others catch up soon :)
@taylorlorenz seeing that people today get their news on tiktok, instagram, and twitch, make me realise what a boomer i am.
...and how fucked we are that people's main news sources are unregulated sources under state/malicious actors' control.
when it comes to the EU's CSA, my biggest concern is not even an abstract threat from "big tech" (although usually it is a trivial one). but, assuming that control over an implemented regulation would be delegated to member states (which as far as i understand would be the case), imagine how a Viktor Orban, the dictator of an EU state, would abuse this for his own benefit. i mean, basically a codified Pegasus for the guy.
@iamdtms i am a premium member and significantly reduced using youtube because of all the enshittification they do to the ui. (not on moral grounds, simply because it's annoying af to open that interface these days.)
#OTD in 1675. Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus representing an elongated S, from the Latin word summa, and the d used for differentials ({\frac {dy}{dx}}), from the Latin word differentia.
Leibniz expressed the inverse relation of integration and differentiation, later called the fundamental theorem of calculus, by means of a figure in his 1693 paper Supplementum geometriae dimensoriae.... via @wikipedia
@pfefferle I can't, all i have is the post that these are a reply to :(
webserver log shows a barrage of xmlrpc.php attempts some minutes before this post, but that (barrage of random xmlrpc attack attempts) is normal i guess...
