Indie Game // Research book

We have decided to organise our collective research by producing a research book for the brief. We aim to include research into the following areas:

• Characters from games 
• Game typefaces
• Maps/Environments
• UX
• Game features - Summary / pros + con
• Indie platforms - Steam/XBLA/PSN
• Animation and character movement
• Promotion

We wanted to draw inspiration for the research book from classic video game manuals of the NES and SNES era. These are some of the spreads we identified:

Donkey Kong Jr

Donkey Kong

Super Mario Bros 2

Tetris + Dr Mario

Super Mario bros 3

Super Mario RPG

Here is the layout I designed for the research book, based on the classic Donkey kong manuals. I resized the manual to be the same dimensions as modern DVD booklets so that we can package it in a branded DVD case. We wrote the content together based on our research notes and I laid out the research booklet while Andy moved forward developing the visual style for the characters of the game. 

Here are some of the spreads from the booklet: