College_Game_Dev

I won't mince words: twin-stick shooter is a terrible fit for touchscreen. It's one of the genres requiring the most rapid, most accurate control

That's been a growing suspicion on my part - my best bet so far has been to add some form of auto-aim/aim-asist into the game to help make the game playable, much like Minigore did. Movement wise - I've spent quite a while working on making the controls feel as good as possible, but I'm still going to work at it.

Making interchangable ship parts isn't too bad of idea :-) tho I don't want to go overboard though on customizability and scare people away. Aside from power-ups and maybe different engines, what else would make sense to add to it without it becoming too much?

All of the responses above some up the concept pretty nicely - Give players a reason to do something and they will do it. If there's some bonus to doing something (eg, safisfaction for getting a kill) on the individual players part, they will most likely attempt to do it.

Picture the guy who runs out blindly early on in a CS:S round with a P90, spraying and praying. They know the consequence (dying), but they have plenty of fun just getting their semi-gauranteed kill. The satisfaction makes it worth it.

If you can gaurantee there will be something in it for the player encourages them try it (aka spreading out / multi-base in RTS), most players will take the risk so long as the consequences aren't too high.

Compare PVP mechanics of RuneScape vs. WoW - WoW there is no cost, only really benefit and a respawn time. RuneScape, you lose everything for a tiny gain. The result? People in runescape camp/turtle on the edge of the wild (I haven't played the game in a long long time, maybe its gone/renamed) in order to protect themselves from loss with little gain. In WoW, theres always a hope you might crit and win, and respawning is sometimes faster then waiting for health regen, so people keep fighting just for the sake of advancing on.

In short: Keep it simple - give the user some satisfaction from playing aggressively. In a shooter, reduce respawn times for the players who were moving when they died - and make them aware of it! Insult campers automatically by annoucing them outloud. Do something to encourage the player to do something, and they will do it. (Horrible grammer, I know)

Mind telling us what Android Version your running?

I really like the idea behind this game! I could definitely see it being a ton of fun if done well!

My best idea I could give you is to throw in a bit of comical pain into the game, and incorporate a lot of innovation into it - enable the player to interact with the environment and spring some other events up on unsuspecting fellow campers. For example, divert floods into your "enemies" tents, then steal their food while they're running out in havoc... Or perhaps light their food on fire, and sneak in while thats going.

Maybe dumb some of the other campers food out and watch all the animals become attracted to the area. Try to abuse the wealthier campers resources for your own gain.

There's a lot of different places you could go with this if its a "Camper Gone Wild" sort of game. Perhaps keep it a havoc-recking game where you barely need to mind resources, or the exact opposite and use stealing as a last-resort sort of deal. Maybe even have your own family involved and a misery index for how frusturated they are becoming?