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Scott McCrae

"We were feeling like it was stale": Dispatch is styled like "a premium animated television show" because devs didn’t want players to reject it like Telltale’s Walking Dead

Dispatch screenshot.

AdHoc Studios has explained why Dispatch ditched some of the game-y elements that were typically found in the previous Telltale releases.

Speaking to Game Informer, AdHoc Studios co-founder Dennis Lenart explains that with Dispatch, it felt essential that it strip the adventure game-style settings: "We'd say, 'hey, you might really like this Walking Dead game or this Wolf Among Us game we're making,' and they would check it out and go 'Ah, it kind of looks like a video game'."

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