I recently started my own studio with a few friends, most of whom have experience in the game industry, myself I was part of the team making R-Type Dimensions for XBLA. Our first game will be a shmup and we just announced it for iPad, iPhone and iPod but other platforms will follow.
The reason I am writing on this forum, is mainly to get some feedback and ideas from other shmup fans and possibly check if anyone here would be interested in beta testing the game once we get it to that level? You would of course get credits in the game.
To beta test would require you to have an iOS device and sign up at http://www.testflightapp.com (it is a beta testing website that developers use to beta test their applications on iOS).
Check out an early teaser trailer for the game at http://www.funkoi.com or go straight to the youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/funkoigames.
Be aware that we are aiming for the entry level crowd with fancy graphics and more forgiving gameplay on the normal difficulty. That said, we have some insanely difficult settings for you guys as well and given enough time to beta test it, I think you will enjoy it too.
Instead of porting a game over from arcade or normal dpad controls we have a unique but very natural control scheme that I think will go over very well on touch only devices.
Cheers!
Daniel