AdHoc Studio

AdHoc Studio is an independent American game developer and narrative-design studio founded in late 2018. Based in Greater Los Angeles and organized as a remote-first team, it creates interactive narrative games built around player agency, cinematic character drama, branching dialogue, and episodic storytelling.

The studio was formed by veteran narrative designers and directors whose earlier careers included work at Telltale Games, Ubisoft, and Night School Studio. Its work spans original game development and publishing, narrative consulting, worldbuilding, scriptwriting, and co-development for interactive productions.

Interactive storytelling

AdHoc’s capabilities include:

• Interactive narrative direction and adventure-game development
• Branching player-choice mechanics and episodic release structures
• Cinematic direction and video previsualization using Unreal Engine tools
• Gameplay and UI systems, including Unreal Engine Blueprints and CommonUI backporting
• Hybrid 2D/3D visual integration and offline video-buffering workflows

Its debut title, Dispatch, is an episodic superhero workplace comedy set in contemporary Los Angeles. Released for PlayStation 5 and Windows PC in 2025, the game later expanded to Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and Xbox Series X/S.

AdHoc previously partnered with LCG Entertainment on narrative and cinematic work for The Wolf Among Us 2 before shifting its internal focus to original intellectual property. The studio is also co-developing Project Exandria, an original narrative game set in Critical Role’s world of Exandria, and is providing story and narrative development for Until Dawn 2 with Firesprite and PlayStation Studios.

With a core internal team of around 30 people, AdHoc scales its production capacity through contractors and co-development partners while maintaining its independent, remote-first operating model.