Friday, November 9, 2012

Touchscreen Mobile Action Games

After using Android for a while and downloading lots of games, I found that the current mobile games line up could not satisfy me, though it is limited to action adventure mobile games (the likes of God of War, Devil May Cry, Wild Blood kind of gameplay). Indeed, the addition of touchscreen to mobile phones (thanks to Steve Job for marketing it well) has revolutionized the way we play games on mobile phone, and games become a lucrative business with simple set up and probably relatively lesser cost compared to other business. But the way we play action adventure games in mobile phones has not changed. Those touchscreen are merely used to emulate buttons. Due to lack of space, the touchscreen gestures often used to change view or camera setting (pinch to zoom and swipe to look left and right). PS Vita probably took a wrong turn here, because its main advantage has always been those top notch mobile action adventure games, and since the touchscreen features are less used in those kind of games (well, probably for puzzle is better, but not for the core game mechanic itself), adding touchscreen features drain the battery more than needed to play those games.

Solutions? I have no solution yet. Cheers :D

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