Jinxter

Aquatania has recently become the land of misfortunes, due to a group of plotting witches. The task of finding five charms and a magic bracelet to put things right falls on you.

And you need a change of luck, because events in this game often emphasise the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. You get hit by a car, fall a great height, sprayed with cheese sandwich and more! Being the guinea pig in this strange world will drive you insane - if this jinxed land doesn't do it first.

Jinxter is an interactive fiction with graphics title that takes a realistic world of people and situations, and then plays with the boundaries to create a strange and puzzling world. Characters are all getting on with their own tasks, and getting them to help you is usually a case of making sure something's in it for them.

Dialogue aims to add a comic touch to proceedings. Puzzles can often be solved in multiple ways, but the most obvious way is not always the correct one. Due to the presence of a Guardian, you can't actually die.

Added May 16, 2020
Published By Rainbird
Developed By Magnetic Scrolls
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This screen is displayed after a short delay while the game loads. There's no title screen, no music and no pictures - straight into the detailed text ... (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
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After exiting the bus the player is immediately placed in mortal peril (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Luckily there's a guardian nearby who saves the player from a squishy demise (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
The guardian hands the player a document and thus begins the mission. (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
It took me ages to realize that the document referred a real document that's included in the game's packaging. Games can be saved to disk to be continued later (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
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Year of Release:
1987

Genre(s):
Interactive Fiction Traditional

Graphic Style:
2D

Camera View:
First-Person

Control Type:
Text Parser

Setting/Theme:
Fantasy

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