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Procedurally Crafting Manhattan for Marvel's Spider-Man

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David Santiago describes the procedural generation pipeline and systems used to build the open world of Manhattan for Spider-Man.

In this GDC 2019 session, Insomniac Games' David Santiago describes the open world pipeline of 'Marvel's Spider-Man' and how each procedural system was originally designed to support iterations, and dependencies. Register for GDC: ubm.io/2yWXW38 Join the GDC mailing list: gdconf.com/subscribe Follow GDC on Twitter: twitter.com/Official_GDC GDC talks cover a range of developmental topics including game design, programming, audio, visual arts, business management, production, online games, and much more. We post a fresh GDC video every day. Subscribe to the channel to stay on top of regular updates, and check out GDC Vault for thousands of more in-depth talks from our archives.

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What people say. Highly recommended as an outstanding presentation on modern procedural world generation techniques in AAA game development.

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Somewhat related(okay, not really, but still fun) - awesome talks about modern procedural generation techniques(with AI, Houdini, etc): How AI will change 3D industry link Procedural world generation for Far Cry link Procedurally generating Manhattan for Spider Man link to this video Mindblowing talks by Anastasia Opara (using cool math, deep learning, and a lot of creativity to create crazy cool stuff) link Procedurally generating 3D landscape in Houdini (a little tutorial I have made, can't resist sharing) link
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