Making Spider-Man 1 & 2 | Tomo Moriwaki

Tomo Moriwaki joins the Pembridge Podcast to talk about his career at Treyarch, leading design on Spider-Man (2002), and serving as creative director on Spider-Man 2 (2004). We get into what made Spider-Man 2’s web swinging so satisfying, the ambitious Lizard sequence that never made it into the game, working with the movie’s cast, and his abandoned Spider-Man 3 combat prototype. Beyond the games, Tomo shares how he creates without being able to picture images in his mind, what he learned from crunch and clashes with Activision, and his perspective on AI, rising budgets, and starting an independent studio. A conversation about the games we grew up with—and the person behind them. Check out Tomo’s game, Epic Tavern, on Steam. Use the chapters below to jump to a topic.