AdHoc Studio, holdet bag det kommende superhelte- og valgsbaserede narrative spil Dispatch, består af flere tidligere Telltale-udviklere og -forfattere. Men selvom holdet har erfaringen og de rette evner til at skabe spil, var Dispatch oprindeligt tænkt som noget helt andet.
Et live-action tv-show, for at være helt præcis. I en samtale med PC Gamer beskrev Dispatch's kreative direktør, Dennis Lenart, hvordan projektet blev til:
"We originally started in 2018, it was going to be a potential live-action interactive TV show. And we spent a bunch of time on that, you know, wrote a season's worth of content, and a thing called Covid hit. Hollywood shut down, everything changed, the tech partner we were working with pivoted their business, and we kind of put it on the shelf for a while."
Selvom spillet har ændret sig meget siden begyndelsen som tv-show i 2018, forblev holdet hos AdHoc stærkt inspireret af tv-mediet. "Then when we came back to it, looked at what was there, and thought: 'There's a lot of great elements, but what about expanding here and here and changing this character?' We started getting more into Barry at the time, so there's a lot of that influence seeping in," forklarede Lenart.
Dispatch's første afsnit udkommer allerede om et par uger, hvor vi endelig får at se, hvordan alle AdHocs mange inspirationskilder smelter sammen i dette superhelteeventyr.