The Secret of Monkey Island is a 1990 point-and-click graphic adventure game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games. It takes place in a fictional version of the Caribbean during the age of piracy. The player assumes the role of Guybrush Threepwood, a young man who dreams of becoming a pirate, and explores fictional islands while solving puzzles. Wikipedia
Research exclusive to this game
Black, Michael L. “Narrative and spatial form in digital media: A platform study of the SCUMM engine and Ron Gilbert’s the secret of Monkey Island.” Games and Culture 7, no. 3 (2012): 209-237.
FernándezVara, Clara. “The secret of Monkey Island: playing between cultures.” Well Played 1.0: Video Games, Value and Meaning (2009): 331-52.
Heßler, Daniel. “The Rubber Chicken’s Ergodicity: On Puzzle Punchlines in The Secret of Monkey Island.” In Video Games and Comedy, pp. 71-91. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.
Janebi Enayat, Mostafa, and Mohsen Haghighatpasand. “Exploiting adventure video games for second language vocabulary recall: A mixed-methods study.” Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching 13, no. 1 (2019): 61-75.
Research that includes this game in its sample
Willumsen, Ea Christina. “Is My Avatar MY Avatar? Character Autonomy and Automated Avatar Actions in Digital Games.” In DiGRA Conference. 2018.