Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Procedural Tools for PlayStation 5 Content Authoring

Abstract

Artists at Insomniac Games created a wonderful and detailed open world, Marvel's Manhattan in autumn, on the PlayStation 4 console for Marvel's Spider-Man. This technical communication provides an overview of several procedural systems developed or improved upon for the standalone game, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and a snapshot of the procedural processes in use during the game's production on the PlayStation 5 console. Procedural systems allowed artists at Insomniac Games to efficiently update the setting to winter, increase visual fidelity, and propagate mark-up data across a large open world environment. The combination of procedural techniques and bespoke artistry enabled Insomniac Games to create a memorable launch title for the PlayStation 5.