Nice interpretation of the theme, and great fun to boot :)
Things I loved:
- Tight controls, the helicopter was just finnicky enough to be engaging without being annoying! I especially like the acceleration difference between rising/falling and lateral movement, it felt right
- Solid loop, challenging + rewarding to fight the fires while also dodging + not killing people
- Really appreciate the different music tracks! Such a nice detail
- Showing my age here, but it has similar controls to a Neopets mini-game I spent hours on as a kid called Kreludan Mining Corp so the nostalgia was also nice in my case ;P
Thing I'd love to see:
- A bit more tutorialisation in-game would be useful imo, I didn't really get how to pick people for the first few runs so even just some hovering text explaining what to do would be grouse
- I also think having the people move back and forth in their starting area would be more compelling, as about half the people congregated back to the helipad near the start once I put out the interceding fires, and while that made it nice + easy, it was also a little lacklustre way to end each run
- Personally I think crashing should be an instant loss, especially with people on board! But that could def just be me haha