FRANCE BURNSSave the shop. Sixty seconds.

Play Napoleon in this French riots survival game. Reach your shop, fetch the crank, then hold the doorway for one minute while your employee closes up.

FRANCEA FICTIONAL FRENCH CITY

W A S D move · mouse look · Shift sprint
E collect · hold Space raise lid · F spray

Inspired by reported unrest. This fictional arcade mission includes invented aircraft crashes, an earthquake and burning runners.

THE MISSION

Find the shop → fetch the crank.
Hold the doorway for 60 seconds.

The ring is a guide. Three or more attackers inside damage the shop. Hold your lid toward the square; use spray to clear a breach.

YOUR SHOPGet to your shop

MISSION TIME00:00.0

SHUTTER CLOSINGSHOP INTEGRITY 100%

NAPOLEON

CONDITION 100STAMINA Find a shield near the bins · E

CYAN: SHOP · GOLD: CRANK

KEEP YOUR DISTANCE

RADIO / SOURCED REPORT

E collect · Space / right mouse shield · F / left mouse spray · Esc pause

TAKE A BREATH

Paused.

Your run is saved here until you continue.

SHOP SECURED

You made it.

THE STORY / THE GAME

What this is based on.

France Burns is a fictional arcade survival game. Napoleon as the player, the employee, crank, 60-second defense, aircraft crashes, burning buildings, earthquake, falling statue and burning runners are invented gameplay. The international flags and varied civilian dress are fictional scene choices, not evidence about participants in the reported protests. They are not reports of actual events. The bookmarked Micromania/Zing clip is captioned Nice; this mission takes place in a fictional composite French city.

The October 17 protests brought large peaceful marches and violent clashes to France. Reports describe masked rioters, attacks on police, fires and looted shops. The interior minister blamed radical far-left groups and looters. Those are attributed statements, not labels assigned to every person in the crowd.

Bookmarked shop-attack footage, captioned Nice
AFP / TV5MONDE: Paris street reporting and flags
BFMTV: Lecornu original radio excerpt, 06:45–06:49
AFP: scenes of chaos, October 17
AFP: extended Paris coverage
Le Parisien: Paris livestream
BG On The Scene: Paris livestream
Reuters: unrest, police response and protest grievances
City of Paris: statement on violence and damage to businesses
TVK: square layout and architecture, 2013

What the game simplifies

The fictional city reuses simplified OpenStreetMap geometry originally collected around Paris, with invented street names and events. It does not recreate a particular French city or incident. Heights and façades are simplified; shop names, barricade positions, NPC behaviour and the shop location are invented for play, not a reconstruction of individual incidents. Injury and stamina meters are arcade rules. No crowd character represents an identifiable person; Napoleon is a deliberately fictional player cameo.

The radio includes four seconds of original BFMTV audio of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, with an English summary. Other captions summarize attributed reporting. Specific unverified incidents and identities are not reconstructed.

Desktop mouse and keyboard recommended. Touch controls are experimental. This is a local work in progress, not a published story.