Making a Game.

I've been trying to think of a game idea for ages now. I've decided on a platformer. It's going to be cute. And happy.

I started the day trying to make the game. I then realised that I had no sprites, no animated sprites, and no character ideas.

The steps at the moment are:

1. Decide on character
2. Draw standing sprite looking right.
3. Draw running sprite
4. Draw jumping sprite
5. Invert 2 and 3 so they look to the left when the left arrow key is pressed?
6. Animate them (??? Tried using Flash. Trial expired. Arrrgh.)
7. Think about attacks? Will there be enemies?
8. Actually start making the game.
9. Get the character working properly - ie make it so it runs, jumps, and faces the correct way and doesn't fall through the floor when you press jump.
10. The rest!

It's got to the point where I can't wait for an idea to come to me, I need to do the first thing that comes into my head. That's a platform game, with cute little characters, and a good story. I just need to think of them. :<