{"id":2022,"edition":11,"categories":1,"features":0,"size":13285,"name":"Super Polo Bros.","authors":[{"name":"John Hiner","url":"https://wholebeangames.com","twitter":"johnvspop","login":"LudensCogitet","gh":5644415}],"description":"<h2>Controls</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Move: Left and right arrow keys</li>\n<li>Jump: <kbd>Space</kbd></li>\n<li>Pick up tablet / throw tablet / flip switches: <kbd>Ctrl</kbd></li>\n<li>Switch brothers: <kbd>Shift</kbd></li>\n<li>Restart current level: <kbd>R</kbd></li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Goal</h2>\n<p>Bring Niccolo and Maffeo and the golden tablet safely to the flag in each level.</p>\n<h2>Tips</h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Watch out for Mongol bandits! If a bandit touches one of the brothers who is not holding the golden tablet, you will have to restart the current level.</li>\n<li>The tablet can depress pressure plates.</li>\n<li>If your character doesn’t have room to pick up the tablet, your character will kick it.</li>\n<li>Jump while throwing the tablet to throw it further.</li>\n<li>Hold jump for higher jumps, tap jump for lower jumps.</li>\n</ol>\n<h2>Description</h2>\n<p>In 1266 Marco Polo’s father and uncle, Niccolo and Maffeo Polo, reached the seat of Kublai Khan, the leader of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, in Dadu (which is now Beijing).</p>\n<p>They were asked to bring a letter to the Pope and were given a paiza, a golden tablet that granted them safe passage through the Khan’s lands. They made the journey back west, but were unable to deliver the letter immediately, as the Pope had died and a new one had not yet been elected.</p>\n<p>This game is not how their trip went. (For one thing, the paiza was a foot long and 3 inches wide, not the size of Niccolo’s torso). Think of this more like the loosely related NES tie-in game for the historical event.</p>\n","source":"LudensCogitet/super_polo_bros","stars":0,"comments":[{"at":347300904,"author":"Cliff Earl","login":"Antix-Development","gh":17822130,"text":"<p>Super simple graphics but very enthralling game-play, I enjoyed it a lot!</p>\n","games":["When Your Neighbors Are Mongols"]},{"at":347375957,"author":"Mohammad Jawad","login":"mhmdjawad","gh":22205462,"url":"https://pdemia.com/","text":"<p>nice game i finished a few levels</p>\n","games":["Robin Hood"]},{"at":347751309,"author":"Allen Schmidt","login":"cobrajs","gh":297238,"url":"https://cobrajs.itch.io","text":"<p>Nice little platformer! Reminded me a little of the older Apogee, where you have a single room and solve a puzzle. I got through a bunch of levels but got stuck on the level in the screenshot above. It definitely needs an indicator to show which brother you are controlling, as I accidentally switched between them and got confused a few times haha.</p>\n","games":["Pied Pipe Revolution"]},{"at":347781599,"author":"Christoph Schansky","login":"DerBenniBanni","gh":5499976,"text":"<p>Cool, a throwback to C64-times :)</p>\n<p>The jumping/gravity needs a little tweaking.</p>\n<p>Nice room- and puzzle-designs</p>\n","games":["WitchCup1276"]},{"at":347790643,"author":"Mark Vasilkov","login":"mvasilkov","gh":140257,"url":"https://mvasilkov.animuchan.net","twitter":"mvasilkov","text":"<p>Them dudes are soaring like absolute rockets, no wonder they were chosen for the trip! Whenever there’s no solid roof, I bypassed any semblance of puzzles by jumping over most of the level. :)</p>\n<p>Seriously though, that’s a cool idea: kind of like Portal 2 co-op but in 2D, with buttons and platforms.</p>\n","games":["Super Castle Game"]},{"at":347882677,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"<p>good entry! Sounds, nice pixels and a challenging levels.</p>\n<p>Ctrl for pick up was a littel awkward</p>\n","games":["Fort Knight"]},{"at":347924416,"author":"Johan Åhlgren","login":"skanejohan","gh":4025939,"url":"www.johanahlgren.se","text":"<p>A very nice platformer, very retro! I liked the challenges it posed, where you had to use both Niccolo and Maffeo to solve the puzzles. Good job!</p>\n","games":["Turrets and Trebuchets"]},{"at":348040161,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"<p>I played a few levels. Has some strong NES vibes, although it doesn’t exactly stick to the pixel grid ;)\nThe game is fun, and you created some great 2-player puzzles, but the reason I didn’t play more than a few levels is that it’s soo slow. Make the characters 50% faster for a much higher engagement.</p>\n","games":["Market Street Tycoon"]},{"at":348384596,"author":"Joanna Jardine","login":"epicjoanna","gh":127295327,"url":"https://joannajardine.com","text":"<p>Super nice entry :-)\nPuzzles were fun to solve and sound effects were fitting! Movements felt a bit slow, and controls were a little stiff - as mentioned already, maybe interacting with stuff would’ve worked better with something other than CTRL? Even so, I enjoyed playing through the levels!</p>\n","games":["FREEEDOOOM!!!!!!!"]},{"at":348612750,"author":"Tiago Correia","login":"dosaki","gh":1957450,"url":"https://dosaki.net/","text":"<p>I quite enjoyed this retro-style puzzle game.</p>\n<p>Good level design, played a few levels.</p>\n<p>I feel like the movement could be improved (jumping is a little strange, maybe due to the gravity?) and the characters feel a little bit too slow.</p>\n","games":["Swords & Quills"]},{"at":348615800,"author":"Magnus Lindh","login":"MagnusLindh","gh":26601704,"text":"<p>Fun but very frustrating. So easy to push the wrong button. I guess it is a good exercise in maintaining patience. The speed is perfect. Perhaps you could highlight the active player?</p>\n<p>Graphics and sound are basic just like in the good old days. Still I wish the sound effects could have been somewhat smoother.</p>\n<p>Overall, very nice puzzle game!</p>\n","games":["Gothic Tower"]},{"typ":2,"at":348707648,"author":"Taufik Sani","login":"tictacx-gm","gh":106235867,"url":"https://linkedin.com/in/taufiksani","twitter":"gorilatictacx","text":"<p>First of all, love it!</p>\n<p>Taking a popular game and developing it in your vision is not easy, but you managed to incorporate the 13th century into the gameplay.</p>\n<p>I like how you have to control two players to achieve the goal, and go through levels of puzzles to get to the end game.</p>\n<p>What could possibly be improved is to add the narrative at the start of the game to immerse the player right away into the 1st level.</p>\n"},{"at":348753763,"author":"stxtus","login":"stxtus","gh":79226770,"text":"<p>Controls take effort to get a hang of but… tell you what i like the details</p>\n"},{"typ":2,"at":348782773,"author":"Frahaan Hussain","login":"SonarSystems","gh":6967779,"url":"https://sonarsystems.co.uk","twitter":"SonarSystems","text":"<p>Feels like a NES classic which is nice. Nice switching mechanic, improved menu system would be nice.</p>\n"},{"at":348909516,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"<p>Love the look and feel of the game, it’s fun to play.</p>\n<p>I like the graphics and the gameplay mechanics.</p>\n<p>The levels get hard pretty quickly, but at least you get to retry the level if you die without having to go back to the very beginning.</p>\n<p>Also, the sound effects work well.</p>\n","games":["Princess of Corinium"]}],"results":{"theme":{"rank":77,"min":1.08,"score":3.22,"max":4.38},"innovation":{"rank":55,"min":1.12,"score":2.96,"max":4.43},"gameplay":{"rank":40,"min":1.24,"score":3.22,"max":4.34},"graphics":{"rank":83,"min":1.21,"score":2.91,"max":4.73},"audio":{"rank":68,"min":1,"score":2.43,"max":4.32},"controls":{"rank":94,"min":1.29,"score":2.7,"max":4.23},"primary":{"rank":67,"min":7.57,"score":17.43,"max":24.7},"label":"Overall"}}