Insomniac CEO Ted Price recently accepted an interview with the media. According to him, the final boss battle of the game “Marvel’s Spider-Man” in 2018 has shrunk compared to the original design. The reason is to avoid overtime. Price advises colleagues to try their best to be creative within the limits, instead of trying to solve these problems regardless of the interests of employees.
“Initially, we planned to have a boss battle that will take you around New York City, but this is far beyond the scope. The selling point is to directly use brute force, lower your head, and run across the brick wall. But the team took a step back and thought about what’s right. What matters to players is the breakdown of the relationship between Peter and his former mentor, Doctor Octavious.
They rethinked the battle and realized that they didn’t need to destroy half of New York to repay the relationship. In fact, this will go against our original intention. Therefore, the final battle is more close and personal, has a much greater emotional impact than planned, and fits our time well.
This permission to innovate under restricted conditions needs to come from the leadership, who set the tone for the project. I have seen this being implemented with my own eyes, and it is incredible when it works, but this requires constant repetition, because I think we acquiesced to the old habit.
This process is ideal. Does it happen all the time? Absolutely not. Under the pressure of busy production, we often feel that we cannot remove our feet from the throttle, but this is often necessary. The team needs to have the authority to suspend and figure out a better way, instead of flattening the problem and causing potential health problems. “
After the great success of “Marvel Spider-Man” and “Marvel Spider-Man: Miles”, Insomniac is now developing the “Marvel Spider-Man 2” and “Marvel Wolverine” games, the former is scheduled to be released in 2023. Landing on PS5, the latter has not yet announced the release time.
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