02-19-2015, 12:33 PM
I think it's too early to look into alternate partners for now. Your platforming system is stable enough to be playable, so I think you should focus more on the mechanics immediately after that. If you try to design content too far ahead of time, you'll end up having to force your mechanics to match, which can leave the game feeling broken. You should design the mechanics first, then decide on what content would best fit them.
It also seems to early to be picking characters in general, anyway, since you don't seem to have any context to this game other than "it's PBG". Come up with a basic story first, the most bare-bones thing you can think of. What is PBG tyring to accomplish? Does he have a nemesis? Where is he? The basics of the story are important to determine before deciding who's going with him and why.
So that's what you should do next: pick the next mechanic to work on, and make up a very basic story to build up from.
It also seems to early to be picking characters in general, anyway, since you don't seem to have any context to this game other than "it's PBG". Come up with a basic story first, the most bare-bones thing you can think of. What is PBG tyring to accomplish? Does he have a nemesis? Where is he? The basics of the story are important to determine before deciding who's going with him and why.
So that's what you should do next: pick the next mechanic to work on, and make up a very basic story to build up from.