# Virpa - Fire Expert

> Virpa - Fire Expert (iPhone/iPad app by Turku University of Applied Sciences.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/virpa-fire-expert/id1527225042 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Turku University of Applied Sciences](https://appshunter.io/developer/1003745365)
- Category: Games, Education, Adventure, Casual
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 12.0 · 346 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2021-04-20
- Data updated: 2026-05-19
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/virpa-fire-expert/id1527225042/reviews.md

## What is Virpa?

Virpa – Fire Expert game is a great educational tool and entertaining experience for 6-12 years old kids. The game has been fully designed to teach in a fun way all knowledge that a kid should have about fire safety. 

The game places the player in a three-floor school building with lots of things to discover, learn, complete, and collect. This includes:
- Scan with the phone camera six real fire-safety signs to unlock 18 rooms
- Find and solve ten hazards
- Collect and read six newspapers 
- Explore the school and unlock over forty clothing elements
- Play three extra minigames; skateboard, fire-man, and extinguisher
- Solve the eight chalkboards’ puzzles
- Complete a fire drill 
- Succeed in the final exam and obtain the fire-expert diploma

Notes:
- Game makes use of phone’s camera. The player needs to find fire-safety signs in real buildings and scan them with the phone camera to unlock certain rooms. Nor the game neither the developer saves nor stores any image obtained from the camera, but only the information of the fire-safety sign which was scanned.
- Game does not collect personal data, it respects players privacy, and it fulfills GDPR privacy policy.
- Game is free-to-play. No adds. No in-app purchases. The game was developed with public funding from Palosuojelurahasto (Fire Protection Fund – Finland).
- Game uses GPS when fire-safety signs are scanned with phone’s camera. GPS use can be disabled in the phone settings.
- Game uses AR (augmented reality) in the extinguisher minigame. It only works in phones with AR capability.
- Educators and parents can visit www.virpagame.fi for extra material related to fire safety and more information regarding this game.
- Game available in English, Finnish, and Swedish.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.1.0 — 2025-01-24

- Updated the engine and its associated components to newer versions, improving the game's stability, performance, and compatibility with the latest iOS features.
- Enhanced permission handling to meet new security requirements.
- Various fixes to the user interface and gameplay, ranging from minor adjustments to broader improvements.
- Added a new text-to-speech (TTS) feature, enabling the app to read in-game text aloud, such as instructions and news articles.

### 1.0.2 — 2021-08-30

Publish version

### 1.0.1 — 2021-08-19

- Added dark fire drill minigame
- Added skateboarding to outdoors area
- Many fixes and improvements to graphics, menus and features
- Losing a connection in middle of detecting does not crash the game anymore

### 0.14.1 — 2021-08-05

- Added teaching of Assembly point
- Hazards are now explained by the janitor
- Only one of each object type is detected per shot
- Added language selection via flags at the start of the game
- Added confirmation for deletion of saved progress
- Detector now detects also Extinguisher and Fire Alarm Button
- Chalkboard puzzles
- Tons of bugfixes
- Minigame: Fire Drill
- Minigame: Fire-Man

### 0.11.4 — 2021-05-13

Fix bug where the save file can be suddenly overwritten with empty save

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