The document summarizes Oliver Ingham's research on existing point-and-click adventure games to inform his own project. He looked at The Secret of Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, Minecraft, and Heavy Rain. These games provided ideas around art style, color palettes, and themes. Specifically, he found the color palettes and genres of these games would be useful for his project. He plans to incorporate most aspects of the research, except some colors that would not suit his theme.

1. Research
Oliver Ingham

2. Existing Product
The secret of monkey island is a point and
click adventure game. I chose this game
as a reference as it is seen as one of the
best games within this genre and since I
am doing a piece in the point and click
genre it will be in my best interests to
research a game that is seen as to do it
better than many many others.
The art style of the game can be very
similar too but their animations will be
more refined than mine also, the lighting
and colour pallet in this game will be
broader and darker than mine.

3. Existing Product
Grim Fandango is also a point and click adventure game
made by the same company as ”The secret of monkey
island”, LucasArt. This was also a critically acclaimed game
and looking at how the company did with the genre 8
years after “the secret of monkey island” will be
interesting and will hopefully give me ideas to us in my
own project. In Grim Fandango, the colour pallet is more
vibrant than their previous game “the secret of monkey
island” which works better with my project although the
art style in this game looks better than mine will.

4. Existing Product
Minecraft at this moment in time is the most sold
game ever released, this happened in 2019 even
though it was released in 2011 but has slowly gained
more and more popularity. Minecraft’s art style is very
similar to mine as it is pixel art and the art style is vey
basic and bland, more basic than mine will be. The
colour pallet for Minecraft is diverse as it has dark and
light schemes for different situations. This is similar to
what I want my game to look like as it is not stuck with
one simple colour scheme although it would be easier.

5. Existing Product
Heavy rain is an acclaimed action
game and the reason I am
researching it is because of the
dark themes within the game and
the colour pallet even though
dark, would be interesting to use
within my final project.

6. Research Analysis
• What common features do the researched products
have?
• All of the products have an interesting colour pallet
that I find useful and will probably use in my project,
they all also are all part of my genre that my game will
be in.
• What aspects of the research will you include within
your on work?
• I will use most aspects of all of the research apart from
some colours that will not suite the theme of my
project.

7. Bibliography

8. Bibliography
1. Lucasfilm Games. (1990) The Secret Of Monkey Island.
2. LucasArts. (1998) Grim Fandango.
3. Mojang. (2011) Minecraft.
4. Quantic Dream. (2010) Heavy Rain.