How Insomniac Procedurally Built Manhattan for Spider-Man

GDC Festival of Gaming · Talk · YouTube title: Procedurally Crafting Manhattan for Marvel's Spider-Man

Why it's here

Recommended as a prime example of large-scale procedural generation used in a shipped AAA game.

What it covers

GDC 2019 session where Insomniac's David Santiago describes the procedural systems used to build Manhattan for Marvel's Spider-Man. It covers the open-world pipeline and how each system was designed to support iteration and dependencies.