You're a djinn, or rather a series of them, trying both to serve your various masters' commands and to achieve your own purposes. Well implemented and richly imagined--the game devises a djinni cosmology that's extremely involved and makes sense of your motivations and the limitations on your movement. You need to tune into a sort of djinni ethics to figure out why things work as they do. Not very long, with just a few puzzles, but the thoroughness of the worldbuilding makes up for the brevity.

Rating: ****

Reviewed by Duncan Stevens (08 Feb 2001)

djinni.z5 (103.00 KB)

Z-code 5 executable (version: Release 1, original competition entry)

eywtkas.txt (19.84 KB)

Author's notes and walkthrough

djinni.exe (149.45 KB)

MS-DOS executable (version: Release 2)

djinni.z5 (103.00 KB)

Z-code 5 executable (version: Release 2)