Meet the Bad Guys (Part 1)

*warning, i am thinking out loud so this post might be a bit of a mess

i have been doing some thinking about the way the story flows and how the player/players fit into this world and how we get from one stage to another. i know the plan right now is to get one stage finshed and get everything working on it, but i also want everyone to be thinking about the other stages. i am currently planning on having 5 total stages (if all goes well).

i believe a system where the player chooses which target he/she goes after would be a good system (think megaman). by making the main character/characters bounty hunters of some sort helps in keeping the story simple while giving us the freedom to add story where its needed. so with that in mind, i present to you the really rough idea of bad guys.

The Wild Aces - this is the name of the bad guy group. the idea is taken from poker where there are 5 cards in a hand. in this case, the 5 cards are 4 aces and 1 wild card (the joker). of course there are henchmen that follows each main bad guy. so far, i have rough ideas of each boss based on the different idea of stages that we kinda chatted about.

(its getting late and i cant think of names right now so i will just put them into general archtypes).

the big guy
the ghoul guy
the machine guy
the explosive guy
the joker

i am gathering concepts and will work out details about each bad guy.