(Experience) Cute parcel delivery business with penguins, 'Polar Penguin Post'

At the Busan Port International Exhibition Convention Center, where the BIC Festival 2022 is in progress, there was a booth that attracted toxic attention. It was a booth of the Polar Penguin Post, which I couldn't pass by, even the booth decorated with art that suits my taste.

The Polar Penguin Post is a full-fledged courier shipping game developed by Team Little Lemon Bolv, which consists of three developers. The main goal of the game is to organize things in your bag and deliver them to your customers with the cute penguins who understand people. Last year, the game, which made crowdfunding through Tumblebucks, raised nearly 33.5 million won and recorded more than 478%of the target.

Personally, I really like the concept that delivers something to others. In a similar context, Kojima Hideo's 'Death Stranding' also has the memory of playing really happily. Is it that? At first, I found the booth of the Polar Penguin Post because of the cute art, but after playing the game directly, I started to be more interested in the game itself.

The core gameplay of the Polar Penguin Post was simpler than I thought. You can see it a little over the shoulders of the person who is demonstrating in front of you. The list of 5x5 bags in the middle of the list on the left side of the screen is inserted into the 5x5 bag in the middle. One day in the game exists as a stage, and how fast and accurately sending the courier in a limited work time is an important factor in determining the day.

It's so simple, but it's a configuration that feels that the work you actually work in in the warehouse is very good. I don't want to see anything like an invoice or annoying documents. Nevertheless, the idea of sending an order document together in the box was a part of the concept of saving the concept of the game that packed the courier and delivered it to someone.

In the early stages, a tutorial to identify the basic contents of the game, a relatively simple spell will be sent to send letters from water, food, and rugged. The bags consisting of 25 spaces and a total of 25 spaces are wider than you think, so in the beginning, you didn't have to stack it up. However, as the stage increases, the list of items in the order document increases, and the volume of each item increases, so it seems to be necessary to organize the object after some point.

Little Lemon Bolv's developers who developed the game at the demonstration site said that after seeing the carrier bag in the room, they decided to make a game together. 'Isn't it more fun to organize your luggage in the carrier?' Do it. The little idea soon became the core gameplay mechanics of the Polar Penguin Post, and it is showing a pretty satisfactory cleanup.

In addition to the core content of courier packaging and delivery, the Polar Penguin Post has a cute and cute story and an art style that supports it well. The game depicts the story of the biologist, Min, and the warehouse manager, 'Hour' against the virtual country of Winter Mountain. 'Min', who thought he was missing from a huge snow purple, returned to Winter Mountain's castle with the mysterious life of a penguin, and helped the castle with the penguins who understood people for some reason. You will start your business.

The parcel delivery business that started this time increases the number of items that are increasingly handled by the various requests of the royal palace. Naturally, the time the player is worried about cleaning up the bag. Fortunately, the game is considered to be able to learn quickly with a simple tutorial whenever a new element is added.

In the process of the parcel delivery business day, it is also possible to win various missions before starting the day. The missions were generally given as a challenge, such as performing more than a certain percentage of more than a certain percentage, or sending more than a few couriers in a day, and additional financial compensation according to the work performance on the day of the order.

These missions seem to be able to win orders throughout Winter Mountain as the business days pass. For example, after helping a village for the first time, the village was able to win additional missions related to construction materials. In addition, if only foods related to food, such as food and water, were delivered, and later, it will handle more diverse objects such as construction materials and tools, and the ability to quickly find things is also important.

There were a lot of visitors waiting later, so I couldn't play all the demos, but according to the developers' stories, as the stage proceeds, more difficult tasks will be added. For example, if you pack up an easy-to-break object and a hammer, you will be damaged, or you can also see the shipping accidents that can occasionally face in everyday life, where you can just send fish without having to cool it.

If you are interested in courier service, or if you have seen a carrier bag like Little Lemon Bolv's developers and thinking, 'Isn't it fun to clean up your luggage?' Sending as many couriers as possible within the time limit is simple and more tension than you think, and if you get a report card at the end of the day when you're really good, you can get some reason.

Currently, 'Polar Penguin Post' can be enjoyed by the PC platform Steam, and the demo version is provided up to the 7th day, and the game is developing hard to launch this fall.