How Insomniac Games tried to make a Spider-Man suit for every kind of player
by Andrew Webster from The Verge - All Posts on (#6G4PS)
Miles Morales in the Across the Spider-Verse suit. | Image: Sony Interactive Entertainment For the art team at Insomniac Games, there's one job that everyone seems to want: working on Spidey's suits. Since the first Spider-Man game on the PS4, modeling the in-game suits has been a hotly contested assignment" among the studio's character team, according to senior art director Jacinda Chew. Over the course of three games, including the recently launched Spider-Man 2, the team has managed to add a huge number of unlockable suits, covering everything from the Across the Spider-Verse animated film to the internet's favorite bodega cat. That's the treat," says Chew, to be able to work on a suit."
However, that wasn't something that was obvious to her from the start. Chew says that it wasn't until the first Spider-Man launched and...