If the first few hours of gameplay is anything to go by, Marvel’s Spider-Man is looking to be heavily focused on storytelling. Developer Insomniac Games has teamed up with veteran Marvel Comics writers including Dan Slott, who recently ended a historic decade long run on The Amazing Spider-Man, and Christos Gage, who helped write a few arcs for The Amazing Spider-Man and The Superior Spider-Man.
While Slott was tied down with looking after one of Marvel’s biggest comic properties, Gage was able to spend a lot more time alongside Insomniac’s in-house writers. We asked James Stevenson, Community Director at Insomniac Games, about the relationship with these writers and how that came about.
“It all started at Marvel Games. Bill Rosemann is the executive creative director at Marvel Games; he’s been involved since the very beginning and is still involved weekly on the project,” Stevenson said.
“Early on we talked to Dan Slott, who helped with some of the conceptualisation of the big picture story thinking, and also helped us distil that into what we were thinking. That really helped with choosing Mister Negative, obviously given that is a character Dan created and it also tied into some of the themes that we wanted to hit.”
“Dan is great, but he’s obviously super busy and has a ton of stuff to work on. Because of that, Christos Gage was able to step in and help write a lot of it. He has been writing on the game for, I think, three years now – somewhere around then, maybe even longer at this point,” Stevenson continued.
“Christos has been working on our game significantly alongside our in-house writers Jon Paquette, who is the lead writer, and Ben Arfmann. There is so much writing in this game between the missions, voice dialogue, text in the game, emergent dialogue and the social media feeds – so there is a lot of people that have helped write it at certain points. But it’s been great working with Christos.
“He is currently writing Spider-Geddon, which is going to be awesome because the Spider-Man from our Spider-Man universe will join in with all of the others. That will be pretty cool too given his involvement in the game and now he’s getting to bring our Spider-Man into the comic lexicon.”
Marvel’s Spider-Man is due for release 7 September, exclusive to PS4.
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