This was pretty cool, though it took me a while to figure out that you need to have magic to go up at all. I guess I expected to have a basic jump even with no magic
Yep, I fretted over this a bit, but Atari games didn't do much in the way of explaining game mechanics, so I was a little limited. I considered giving a small amount of mana at level start but decided the Atari way would be to let the player figure it out :)
