Game Development Part 1: Research

Permission has been granted!  We just got the green light and are ready to start hammering this game out.  So without further ado, here is our research.  The principle resource for this project is the book The Pacific and the HBO miniseries of the same name.  The book and movie cover the intertwined journeys of four U.S. Marines across the Pacific theater of operations.  Their names are Sydney Phillips, Eugene Sledge, Robert Leckie, and John Basoline.  The  major issue these two pieces deal with is the brutality and lack of humanity seen in almost every major operation in the Pacific theater.  But using just one piece for research would be like composing a symphony with just one note.  Thus, we dug deeper.  A good place to start is with Robert Leckie's Helmet for my Pillow and Eugene Sledge's With the Old Breed.  Both are personal memoirs that do a good job of showing the savagery of the Pacific theater.  With these pieces under our belt we started to do some general research.  This includes many, many books and for the sake of time we will not list them all.  This gives a solid background and has us ready to move to planning and development!