There’s a significant contrast between story-focused single-player, and online multiplayer/games-as-a-service (GaaS) titles – Ted Price, the founder and CEO of Insomniac Games (which turned 25 this Thursday!), talked about this topic as well to Variety.

„We have had to grow new muscles in terms of how we produce games to actually handle delivering a game of this size. We had to figure out can we improve to deliver this with a team that is probably not as big as some of the internal teams at larger publishers. We had to get scrappy. We had to communicate consistently. We had to try things that we didn’t think would work and then fix them when they broke. And that was another growth moment in our history. All those things have to be done well at the beginning of any production. And I think we’ve learned a lot about how to do it better during Spider-Man,” Price said. Before Spider-Man, his team worked on Spyro, Ratchet & Clank, and Resistance series, and Sunset Overdrive.

Price also explained how there is a major difference between the single-player titles with a narrative focus and the online(-only) multiplayer, GaaS games (such as Battlefield V, Anthem, or The Division 2…) – but in the end, Insomniac just wanted to create high-quality games: „I think both [models] work. Having a strong narrative that affects people on an emotional level is incredibly important. It’s what we look for in all forms of media, from the TV to films and books to comics, to games. And being able to share our experiences as people, not just developers, as people who others and find common ground is really gratifying. But it doesn’t preclude having content that is games as a service, content that continues to live on. As we move ahead, everybody’s trying to untie the knot of how do you combine the two in a way that keeps giving players more of what they love. What we challenge ourselves with is just making a good game, period,” Price added.

We’re curious to see what Insomniac Games might do next – a next-gen Spider-Man sequel? (The first game sold over nine million copies after all…) A new Ratchet & Clank? Maybe a new Sunset Overdrive game? Who knows?

Source: WCCFTech