Adventure Time: Finn & Jake Investigations is a single player adventure game inspired by classic adventure titles such as Monkey Island and Grim Fandango. In this title, the player takes on the roll of Finn the human, accompanied as always by his best friend Jake the dog. We handled Jake by making him into 'permanent objects' that Finn carried around, and could use for repeated puzzle mechanics. 

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We had several challenges to overcome as a team when working on this title. Among them, our studio was split between two projects at once, so we had half the team. In addition, the timeline was short, and we had never made a game in this genre before. To solve these issues, we aggressively studied adventure games as a design team, doing playthroughs of many such games as a team. In addition we all binged the entire Adventure Time series together, so that we could make the most of fan-favorite characters, places, and call backs. 

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These limitation major impact was the amount of environments we could produce, and so we came up with a story that allowed us to revisit a few places, and kept the number of rooms as limited as we could so that a higher overall quality bar could be achieved. When we were able to create the Marceline "Artifact Checking" DLC, we were able to produce a much higher quality bar, as we applied all the lessons learned from the starting line, and I encourage anyone who played this game to give the DLC a comparative try!