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Adam Noonchester (Associate Game Director, Insomniac Games)
Location: Room 3016, West Hall
Date: Wednesday, March 20
Time: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass - Get your pass now!
Topic: Design, Programming
Format: Session
Vault Recording: Video
Audience Level: All
Boss fights with Spider-Man's rogues gallery are a key part of the fantasy, and delivering on them is a key component to the Marvel’s Spider-Man series. For the team, improving our boss-fights for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 meant leaning into core combat. This required making a lot of fundamental changes to how we designed and implemented bosses. This talk reveals design, programming and production lessons we learned as we went through this process. The attendees learn how we made unique, epic and memorable fights that achieved spectacle through core combat instead of via one-off, lock-and-key mechanics and disabling player abilities.
Attendees will learn a lot of very pragmatic lessons about both designing and implementing boss fights that leverage core-combat for character action games.
This talk is aimed at designers, programmers and any attendees interested in developing boss fights for character action games. All skill levels, no experience necessary.
