'We have our own musical sensibilities in terms of what we think the music should sound like. How long would it take to reconstruct all these tracks with render time?' Vankov explained. 'There were 125 music tracks across the three games. It was, by his account, a monumental task. Music Remixer Stephen Vankov spent hours dissecting Stewart Copeland's original score. 'They tried to do as much with the technology, but literally we have more geometry in one of Spyro's eyeballs than they had in the whole Spyro character.'īeyond the beautiful visuals and redesigns, the music is truly a special part of the Spyro world. 'The original characters of the games were very low poly,' Art Director Josh Nadelberg told N ewsweek. Technological innovations also allowed the developers to give more depth to the game's characters, and getting Spyro's look just right was key to telling a richer, more lively story better suited to a modern gaming audience. 'The biggest thing is constantly making sure that we're paying attention to details and not letting anything slide,' Kavic said. They've found ways to define, polish, and improve even the smallest aspects of the game. The team found myriad of ways to do this-adding more colors, banners, or even cracks on rocks. 'We would get a little bit of the base mesh from the levels and take that to a concept artist, who would see how they could make this feel more real, inhabited, and not impact the way that you are playing the game,' Senior Producer Peter Kavic told Newsweek. Not only did the 'Spyroscope' help build the levels, it also shaped the new game's art. The developers ran the older game as an emulation, while their real-time tool extracted data to recreate an exact mesh background of the game. 'We actually built out a tool called 'Spyroscrope' because it put the original game Spyro under a microscope,' Yan explained. Those, along with their insights and stories, were all Toys For Bob had to use to build the revamped games. Unfortunately, Insomniac had little tangible to offer, other than a few binders filled with pencil drawings of levels and some original planning documents.

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