About
The story of how two recovering advertising creatives set up a BAFTA-nominated Games studio, and what they borrowed from Film and TV along the way.
Scriptic was founded in 2019 by Nihal Tharoor and Benedict Tatham, fresh from adland careers that toured agencies including Leo Burnett and Brothers and Sisters. Their gripping first project, Dead Man’s Phone, blurred the lines between games and drama, allowing viewers to play a detective using the smartphones of victims to solve their murder in entertainment experiences that are tricky to define, sharing elements of games and film (not least many of them being written by screenwriters rather than narrative designers). Dead Man’s Phone was BAFTA-nominated and set the team on the mission to define “the next generation of narrative play”. Nihal will join us to share how Scriptic rose so rapidly and what they’re up to next.
Scriptic was founded in 2019 by Nihal Tharoor and Benedict Tatham, fresh from adland careers that toured agencies including Leo Burnett and Brothers and Sisters. Their gripping first project, Dead Man’s Phone, blurred the lines between games and drama, allowing viewers to play a detective using the smartphones of victims to solve their murder in entertainment experiences that are tricky to define, sharing elements of games and film (not least many of them being written by screenwriters rather than narrative designers). Dead Man’s Phone was BAFTA-nominated and set the team on the mission to define “the next generation of narrative play”. Nihal will join us to share how Scriptic rose so rapidly and what they’re up to next.
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