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The Escape Route
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Axis Bank

The Escape Route

Programme
Kyoorius Creative Awards
Entrant Company
Nash8
Client
Axis Bank

Media

Description

Travel credit card advertising has a long standing problem: The core offering, reward points are invisible. You spend, you earn, you forget. But games had solved this decades ago: a bar fills a level unlocks a world opens. So, ‘The Escape Route’ was built pixel by pixel, with the internal fidelity of an actual arcade game level. Palettes, patterns, environments and motion designed as one coherent system, obeying game-world logic rather than advertising logic. That logic extended all the way into production. The live-action protagonist's movement, timing and spatial relationships were reverse-engineered from the illustrated world — so human and pixel inhabited the same reality, not just the same frame. On social, a campaign that felt like a game behaved like one too — pulling audiences forward rather than interrupting them. 423M+ impressions −15% CPM +77% clicks The craft didn't just stop scrolls. It made every media rupee work harder.

Credits

Additional Company Credits

  • Girgit StudiosPune, India

Entrant Company

  • Nash8New Delhi, India

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