Building New York in Marvel's Spider-Man: It's Still Just Level Design

In this 2019 GDC Level Design Workshop talk, Insomniac Games' Josue Benavidez discusses the fundamental level design principles that governed the creation of New York City in Marvel's Spider-Man, and how they can apply at any scale.
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[@talalahsan6824]

Insomniac are one of the best devs in the industry right now , they make quality games at a very consistent rate .. i mean we just got Miles and Ratchet is also around the corner.

[@matthewmorrison3745]

I agree wholeheartedly.

[@PARSAYESNO]

Miles Morales was meh for me

[@korpos8833]

What you´re doing guys is really helpful to know all this stuff, Thanks!! GDC

[@prinniesforeveryone321]

Spiderman was boring. The writing was really bad. The gameplay was redundant. It was a very well polished mediocre experience. You can easily argue it's a bad game. It mechanically functions properly but it doesn't do anything special. Ratchet will be mediocre as well. Insomniac has sadly put leftist ideology before good game development. Games were a lot better when programmers just did everything besides the art. Including the writing.
But hey, I guess at least the 5 girls who play Ratchet and Clank will be able to play as a girl lombax even though it didn't matter to them in the first place because humans aren't game characters. This pretend *need* to be relatable to a video game character is very odd and has quickly become gross.

[@TheAlreadybeentaken]

@@prinniesforeveryone321 Imagine being mad because a game makes you play as a girl.

[@MrSTVR]

Hope more games take advantage of doubling up as virtual tourism. I've been playing more open world games in realistic locations because of the last year.

[@TheAlreadybeentaken]

It's not really accurate to real nyc.

[@ibrews]

Wow wow wow

[@Clay3613]

Wasn't this covered in another video?

[@LeonardoSilva-nh2gg]

11:32 tasm 2

30:04 when you realise that he predicted the "lockdown"

[@alyastastic]

Guy at 45:44 sounds so darn cute I'm in love

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SiMp

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[@ethanjohnson3642]

That's me actually

[@bensalter7997]

Sorry for what i did.

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first?

[@JaredClaunch]

First comment on the first post

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