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Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!

It’s not disco elysium, but the writing, acting, animation is fucking polished. Its more an interactive movie than game but entertained I was. I think they did a damn good job,

  • StarkWolf [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    How do people feel about current Telltale Games as an entity? I used to really enjoy some of their games, with the first Walking Dead game and Wolf Among Us being two of my favorite games from the time period. But I heard about awful work culture there, perpetual crunch time, pumping out games before they were finished. Then they fired everyone with no notice. Got bought out by some random company with no relevant industry experience that I can tell, that seemingly was formed out of nowhere just a few months before the acquisition. Offered to “rehire” old employees, but only as freelance with the “potential” to be offered full time positions. Bad vibes all around. I’m glad to hear that they still exist in some fashion, and actually putting out good new games, but I feel very iffy about this company now and would be hesitant to support them

    • moss_icon [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Does the current Telltale Games even exist? They’re in some weird state of limbo right now. Their last game, the terrible The Expanse, was now a few years ago and we are seemingly never getting The Wolf Among Us 2.

    • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Telltale is pretty roasted for what they did in my book.

      From the wiki

      After their time with Telltale Games, then Ubisoft and Night School Studio, AdHoc Studio was formed in 2018 by Michael Choung, Nick Herman, Dennis Lenart, and Pierre Shorette. All four begun development on their first project, Dispatch. It was initially envisioned to be live-action, inspired by This Is SportsCenter commercials from ESPN, and planned to start production in March 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, development was shut down.[

      Around this time, the new incarnation of Telltale approached AdHoc to co-develop a sequel to The Wolf Among Us. Following the game’s cancellation under the original Telltale, The Wolf Among Us 2 was announced in development in 2019. However, both parties ran into creative differences; AdHoc in particular were frustrated of being treated like “work for hire” and lacking creative control over the project. Without direction from Telltale, AdHoc left the game’s development and worked on a game idea for a few months before scrapping it and returned back to Dispatch. This time, they repurposed the project as animated instead of live-action, and shopped said project to multiple game studios until they land a deal with an unnamed publisher for a year until they left mid-way development.