Jonathan The Sorcerer by ncannasse

Help Jonathan the Sorcerer recover the magic gems, but soon you might have too much to handle...
| HTML5 (web) | http://ncannasse.fr/file/ld40 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/jonathan-the-sorcerer |
Ratings
| Overall | 23th | 4.125⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 56th | 3.938⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 122th | 3.667⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 383th | 3.354⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 29th | 4.25⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 139th | 3.5⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 19th | 4.087⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 7🗳️ | 5🗨️ |
✱ Audio and mood fits gameplay perfectly
✱ Visuals and animation details
✱ Easy retry mechanics to experiment a lot
✱ Hard but well thought puzzles
:muscle: **What imo could be improved:**
✱ Colors are pretty agressive and could be better balanced
✱ Advanced puzzle mechanics are not intuitive at first
✱ Maybe including some surprising/unexpected elements would give another fresh air to release the tense of the latests hard puzzles
:sparkles: **Overall**
✱ I had very hard time to complete the game, specially just after 48h game jam ! But I did enjoy the experience.
Thanks for the game !
I had some troubles at the very beginning to see the difference between spots and gems but once you get it, it's easier.
Also, I can't rate audio/mood because I did not have sound (and see in the comments there are)
Graphics are really good and the game is very well polished !
Overall, good job on that one, was pleasant to solve all of the riddles !
ps: Also a pleasure to read the source code :)
Nice game but with a little tutorial explaining the advanced puzzles it could be even better.
The trail thing is not a new mechanic, but the gems (especialy que black one) gave the game a complettely inovative gameplay.
The level design is amazing (and hard). I game up after trying too much to beat the first level with blue gems (I think)
And the art is great too. Congratulations!
all really polished, very nice mood, wavy animation so good, super solid mechanic
level design is really good, SO FUKIN HARD but i finally beat it after hours
a bit sad for no audio :(
anyway very good game