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Review by Slartibartfast all reviews by Slartibartfast

For those that haven't played it, Period Dragon is a fun and original puzzle game where you play a dragon that flies around warped plains of reality, trying to find a place where all plains align correctly to fulfill your goals of collecting crystals and powering up generators.

In the spirit of the TINS competition I'll split this review into the TINS categories

Overall\Gameplay:
The gameplay idea is original and interesting, and it can be a fun challenge to solve the puzzles and get everything working, but it can also get a bit tedious as you just fly up/down waiting for things to line up correctly horizontally, and then fly left/right waiting for things to line up correctly vertically.

Artistical:
There are dragons (actually, just one, you), but their appearance in the game is irrelevant, it may as well have been swans (swan), the swan however looks nice and is nicely animated. The rest of the graphics are a static image of a diamond and square primitives.
Personally I like the art style as I appreciate the "primitive" aesthetic, and the graphics serve the gameplay well in correctly and clearly representing the gameplay pieces.
Since there's no "sound" category I'll just mention here that there are no sounds at all.

Technical:
The game behaves well, the controls are responsive and all technical requirements are satisfied fully and well, not much to say beyond that.

Genre:
Not much to say either, the game could be said to adhere to the requirements, but it only abstractly implements the requirement by calling one element a generator and another a dragon (and even then it is hard to say that dragons have any specific time period associated with them to be contrasted with generators) and overall the game is unaffected by the genre requirement.

Overall I found the game to be a fun way to waste a few minutes, but didn't finish it because I felt it got a bit tedious at some point.

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 3 Technical 4 Genre 2

Review by Slartibartfast all reviews by Slartibartfast

Old West Railroad Dragon Bartender is exactly that, a game where you play a bartending dragon serving drinks and fireballs to customers (and bandits) in a saloon on a moving train. As expected of games of the type, there are a few rows where customers spawn and you have to walk to the correct row and send them the appropriate thing, at which point they disappear and you get points (or lose your multiplier if you messed up)

In the spirit of the TINS competition I'll split this review into the TINS categories

Overall\Gameplay:
The gameplay is exactly what you expect from this game type that has been coded over the weekend. I don't really like these kind of games, but either way this game is not very challenging as you pretty much teleport from one row to the next so it is very hard to miss a customer, and since you are only slightly chastised for making mistakes it is quite hard to lose a life.

Artistical:
There's MS Paint programmer art. I find it to be a bit charming but in the end it is MSPaint programmer art.

Technical:
The controls are responsive and the game mostly behaves well. When I tried to load a saved game I just got an error.

Genre:
I find the idea of a dragon serving drinks on a railroad saloon to be amusing, and there's at least a connection between the genre and the game itself. It might be argued that the connection is there but minimal, and that it is questionable whether Dragons and Old West are actually anachronistic since dragons don't really have a time period.

Overall the game is an amusing implementation of an old game type that I just don't enjoy.

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 3 Technical 2 Genre 3