The AI of Marvel's Spider-Man | AI and Games #74

Insomniac's Spider-Man games are some of the most beloved titles coming out of PlayStation Studios. In this episode we dig in and find out how the development team built AI systems to handle melee and ranged combat, civilians, open-world crimes, boss battles, traffic and more!
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[00:00] Intro
[01:07] Marvel's Spider-Man
[02:30] Designing AI Characters at Scale
[05:21] NPC Behaviour Scripting
[09:19] Combat Management Systems
[17:32] Civilian AI
[21:00] Speed-Round!
[25:34] Closing
The following talks were used as part of my Spider-Man episodes, you might enjoy digging into these to find out more information:
"Marvel's Spider-Man: AI Postmortem", Adam Noonchester, GDC 2019
"Building Traversal in Marvel's Spider-Man", Doug Sheahan, GDC 2019
"Conquering the Creative Challenges in Marvel's Spider-Man", Bryan Intihar, GDC 2019
"Marvel's Spider-Man: A Technical Postmortem", Elan Ruskin, GDC 2019
"Marvel's Spider-Man, meet Houdini", David Santiago, GDC 2019
"Procedurally Crafting Manhattan for Marvel's Spider-Man", David Santiago, GDC 2019
"Building New York in Marvel's Spider-Man: It's Still Just Level Design", Josue Benavidez, GDC 2019
"Marvel's Spider-Man: Procedural Lighting Tools" Xray Halperin, GDC 2019
"Marvel's Spider-Man: A Deep Dive Into the Look Creation of Manhattan", Matt McAuliffe, Brian Mullen and Ryan Benn, GDC 2019
Music in this episode is from the Marvel's Spider-Man soundtrack by John Paesano.
Credits stinger is by ‪@BenRidgeMusic‬.
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If you enjoyed this video, be sure to catch the accompanying episode of Artifacts, all about the procedural tools used to create the open world map:
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8:21 so they basically made a sort of fighting game? Kind of like how Soul Calibur has attack preset moves so you can build a fighter out of those, only these combo moves are being picked up from the data?

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More or less yeah. The designers make up a bunch of different attack types, what the rules are for how they work, and then they decide which characters have access to specific moves.

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Why did you do the first game instead of Spiderman 2? Are the improvements in that game negligible or non-existent?

[@AIandGames]

It's far too early to make a video about the latest game. My research is based on both developer talks and interviews, as well as modding or reverse engineering games. It'll take time before I can even figure out whether there is anything interesting to say about Spider-Man 2 just yet.

[@SLFKimosabae]

@@AIandGames Thanks for the response. I never got a chance to play the first game, but judging by this video and my experience, the AI seems pretty much identical in behavior, so I'd be very interested in seeing a comparison.
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