We make unforgettable stories. You finish them.
AdHoc Studio is the award winning team behind Dispatch. We make handcrafted videogames for players of taste and consequence.
Origin Story
01A brief history of AdHoc Studio and the making of Dispatch.
2018
AdHoc Studio is founded by two directors and two writers.
2019
Dispatch begins as an interactive live-action series. Production is scheduled to begin in March 2020.
2020
All live production shuts down. Dispatch is shelved.
2021
The AdHoc team continues making things, and trying to figure out what's next.
2022-Oct
Dispatch is revived as an animated video game.
2022-Nov
AdHoc holds first company wide offsite.
2023
Story development begins on an unannounced title in collaboration with a AAA studio.
2024-Apr
AdHoc holds second company wide offsite.
2024-May
Funding for Dispatch is pulled midway through development. AdHoc decides to finish it anyway.
2024-Dec
Dispatch is revealed at The Game Awards with no deal in place.
2025
AdHoc finds the money to finish the game, publishes it independently, and hopes it works out.
2025-Oct
Dispatch is released.
2025
A bunch of people play it and love it.
2026
Third studio offsite. For once, everyone gets some rest.
Team stats
we did good stuff
809 People
It took a lot of people to ship Dispatch. Some worked on it for years, some for a matter of days, but every one of them helped us get it to the finish line.
495 pages
The final script ran 495 pages before accounting for rewrites, pickups, and everything that didn't make the cut. Making a game about choices requires writing a lot that most players never see. The writers never complain about this. Ever.
0 Office
AdHoc founded remote and has remained that way all this time. We were using zoom way before it was cool.
356 minutes
If we knew at the outset that we were making the equivalent of three animated feature films and a video game on top of each other, we might have planned differently. Luckily, we didn't realize that's what we were doing until it was too late.