Woke up at like 7am, checked the theme – WHOOO! I was hoping for this.  Gives me a chance to try something weird that I’ve never tried before – normally in platform games, I use a tile/grid system for everything, and it is kind of limiting so I’ve been meaning to look more at image collisions and such, so great excuse to try that out!
So the basic idea is: a mario galaxy style game, done in 2D.

Three hours-ish in, and I have the basics done.  You can walk all the way round the planets, you can jump, you can jump from one planet to another…  I’ve tried some test planets that you can actually go inside, and they work fine so long as I don’t let the player get right to the centre – then weird stuff starts happening.

Not sure entirely what the game objectives will be aside form exploring micro galaxies and tiny tiny worlds yet, getting core gameplay first… next be enemies I think =)
(mario sprite is placeholder of course)