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 College: 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 residence stays a thriller. Night time College, for these unaware, is accountable 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. Certainly one of The Outer Worlds’ greatest qualities is its writing and significantly humourous tone – a practice Avowed carried on – so it is protected to say she (alongside her staff at Obsidian after all) 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 large names searching for work – devs who had labored on franchises similar to Halo, God of Conflict, and extra. Nonetheless, Night time College has beforehand labored on much less financially draining tasks than large price range AAA video games, so maybe that developer will proceed to climate the continuing storm of trade layoffs. The Netflix of us, hell everybody, may use a break!
What Night time College 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 got a good bit of time to kill earlier than one other sport from the studio will get publically revealed. Until it suprises us all and drops one thing at SGF subsequent month.
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