The beginnings of an idea

When I heard one of the themes was 2 button controls, I thought of how mobile games tend to work. I know I’m not the only one thinking this. 😛

Upon further thought, I realised you could actually still do a lot with only 2 buttons.  While I was thinking about how you typically move in a mobile game, my thoughts drifted off to my time playing Super Mario on the SNES and it’s side scroller nature. It was then that I wanted to do a side scroller along those lines. The 2 buttons default behaviour would be to move the player left and right. Through button combos the player can jump and other things might be possible.

 

I want to incorporate the growing theme in as well, but I have yet to figure out how I might do so.