Obsidian veteran Carrie Patel has introduced her departure from the acclaimed RPG studio after roughly 12 years of service. Avowed‘s director has packed up her stuff and shuffled on over to Night time Faculty: A Netflix Video games Studio.
This announcement was made on Patel’s personal LinkedIn profile, although what precisely she’ll be doing at her new house stays a thriller. Night time Faculty, for these unaware, is liable for Oxenfree and Oxenfree 2, in addition to Afterparty, Subsequent Cease Nowhere and the Mr. Robotic telephone sport.
Since 2019, Patel had been a sport director at Obsidian, working in that capability on Avowed and The Outer Worlds‘ Peril on Gorgon DLC. However earlier than that, she spent a big chunk of her profession working as a senior narrative designer on the studio, serving to ship The Outer Worlds itself and its different add-ons. Considered one of The Outer Worlds’ finest qualities is its writing and significantly humourous tone – a practice Avowed carried on – so it is secure to say she (alongside her staff at Obsidian in fact) is a killer expertise.
Netflix as a video games maker has itself had a shakier historical past. In October 2024 it shut down its Team Blue triple A gaming studio which left some huge names on the lookout for work – devs who had labored on franchises reminiscent of Halo, God of Struggle, and extra. Nonetheless, Night time Faculty has beforehand labored on much less financially draining initiatives than huge funds AAA video games, so maybe that developer will proceed to climate the continued storm of trade layoffs. The Netflix of us, hell everybody, may use a break!
What Night time Faculty is engaged on stays a thriller as of proper now, however the firm did post on its own LinkedIn page two months ago that it was hiring, so the devs working there are absolutely cooking up one thing. Once we’ll hear about it? Who is aware of. It solely just lately launched Thronglets, a tie-in to the latest Black Mirror season, so one assumes we have a good bit of time to kill earlier than one other sport from the studio will get publically revealed. Except it suprises us all and drops one thing at SGF subsequent month.
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