Thanks for your comments.   Yes, I have everything in there, all at once. Perhaps the nature of jamming, more as a dev in progress than plan for a full release.  I guess it is an easy wrong for me to just keep the level edit and everything there but honestly I was using those things as tools for my development progress and not a streamlined release.  You probably know from my constant discord and other posts that I was just non stop jamming on this one.  Points well taken, I should bring it all into a cohesive release mode of a consistent game -- now that this jam and the prototyping is over, I guess I should consider doing just that.  Your bomb game for instance is a clean game experience.  I guess I'm stuck in dev mode literally!  thanks again, and thanks for the jam.  The experience I've had jamming for the past 6 months has been awesome.

"The rating notifications that pop up each time at game over and needed to be dismissed before I could see the restart button really took me out of the action each time I reached that screen—especially as there's already a link in the UI."

That restart link and UI that must be dismissed only happens when you die.  When you successfully find the purple flowers in each level, you immediately go to the next level.

Thanks for giving it a try.  There are over 50 levels and there is also a level editor that lets anyone make their own levels to share.  Some of the early levels attempt to make it 'introduce' all the possibilities of the gameplay.  Level 0 is a just a tiny maze, level 1 is a maze with a key, level 2 (I think) introduces the Feather feature, and etc.  It does get challenging and earning all 4 stars in each level does take some practice and logic.  In some cases you have to strategically pick up and use bombs and or fire.  Feel free to try a bunch of levels, or even make your own.  By toggling between edit mode and game mode, you can explore what some of the key, bomb, enemy, orb and locked paths can do.  You toggle developer/editor mode with the Escape key -- which also can easily allow people to cheat of course. 

There is a lot in the instructions but I don't think there are many levels that need that complex situation of using fire to burn logs, etc.  It's there just in case someone builds a very challenging level.  Mostly just a maze, keys and bombs are what makes up most of the levels.

Thanks for noticing the work and time I put into this.  It really was a lot of hours and days of effort over that 30 day jam session.

Thanks and yeah, you also see I posted a lot.. I couldn't stop adding to it, every couple days or more often. Like anything the result is directly related to time spent and effort. I like jams because I can just throw a bunch of JS all over the place and not worry about any code reviews or long term maintenance. This was also my first isometric view game, so I stayed excited about all the features and gameplay. Thanks for your comments.. good luck in the scores!

Thanks .  No game engine just HTML, canvas and a bunch of JavaScript.  Yes isometric movement is weird, this is my first isometric game.  I will see about adding key settings and thanks for noticing all the work that was needed for all of this. Level editor, back end, etc.

Yikes and sorry.  Looks like level 12 is currently NOT solvable.  I guess I changed the logic where you can't bring previously acquired bombs into the next level with you.  So this level can't be solved without that.  You would need to have some bombs to open up the path to the key, but since bombs to pick up are not carried into this level from the previous, it isn't solvable.  There are still tons of more levels by the way, you can find them at the 'More Levels' link on the levels page.  You can even make your own levels using the level editor.  (Just press ESCAPE in game mode and you'll be able to adjust what tiles are where, etc).  You can load and save these levels, so feel free to give that a try.

Haha, glad you saw that.  I figured that if you hit the button for a cheat code, I might as well have use a cheat code to ask for Ratings, or at least a sorry attempt to get / remind people to give this game some feedback! ( I guess it worked considering you commented! )  Thanks for giving it a try, I did spent way too much time in the past month on this one, there are 50 levels! and a level editor, global scores, and probably more confusing things beyond a limited view maze -- hopefully this game will be more enjoyable as players seek to get high scores - You need to kill all bombs, get all keys, get all orbs, and get all feathers for a 4 star rating (on each level), and the faster the better.  Thanks again, SLP

I even provide the leaderboard backend for others to use in their games - I posted about it but so far nobody seemed to want to integrate it into their game.  I needed to add a backend for level editor saving (so other people can make their own levels), so I figured global scores should be a thing as well ( in addition to local scores ).  There are over 50 levels, I'll be playing to make sure I have the top score (stars and time) in many of them, just to challenge the public and show that all levels are solvable! ( except level 47 - lol )

https://github.com/pasciaks/alchemist