Designing the Bustling Soundscape of New York City in 'Marvel's Spider-Man'

In this 2019 GDC talk, Insomniac Games’ Alex Previty and Blake Johnson cover the details behind Marvel’s Spider-Man’s open-world audio design, creating a believable and lively New York City soundscape.
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[@oldcowbb]

loving the series of audio talks lately

[@MadPropzBaller]

The sound design makes this game feel so alive! I love the sounds of car horns and people reacting to you when you are swinging low to the ground.

[@michaelhawthorne5516]

I hope they found an audio programmer

[@SM1-1048]

Like in every vid they post bout Spider-Man this always makes me appreciate the game more and the wait time for games. All the details and hard work that go into it even if it’s unnoticed is always there. Spider-Man 2 PS5 may be a long wait but it’ll be worth the wait.

[@spyfoxguy]

36:50 shoutout to the infamous puddles. But seriously, awesome talk!

[@ryanleyba376]

This is amazing. I wish I was talented enough to work in game audio.

[@idanlewenhoff2295]

true lol

[@SuperKirby_Gaming]

Really great work!

[@richardbeare11]

Awesome talk! The engineer part of my mind is lighting up.
I am really curious if the audio programmer did this in the Wwsie SDK, or in the game engine:
"Our audio programmer at the time came up with a system where once we generate sound banks on these special emitters it actually recognizes its max attenuation settings so once you get outside of that range the engine actually shuts off and hibernates the emitter"

[@BeauJimenez]

I love these two

[@miguelalexandresimoesneves8660]

I recognize Akash voice in the same questionnn

[@doonrat9409]

Yes

[@swayne7301]

Spiderman !

[@M4TTYN]

as a New Yorker all sounds just about right given i'm in the part that didn't get in this game but if they made it even of that scale with all boroughs this game would be massive in download size to prob cause more issues getting the sound right and would prob be too much to render all the rats lol
this is interesting.

[@arc-sd8sk]

first