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 Evening College: A Netflix Video games Studio.
This announcement was made on Patel’s private LinkedIn profile, although what precisely she’ll be doing at her new residence stays a thriller. Evening College, for these unaware, is chargeable for Oxenfree and Oxenfree 2, in addition to Afterparty, Subsequent Cease Nowhere and the Mr. Robotic telephone recreation.
Since 2019, Patel had been a recreation 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. One among The Outer Worlds’ greatest qualities is its writing and notably humourous tone – a practice Avowed carried on – so it is protected to say she (alongside her group 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 Staff Blue triple A gaming studio which left some large names on the lookout for work – devs who had labored on franchises reminiscent of Halo, God of Conflict, and extra. Nonetheless, Evening College has beforehand labored on much less financially draining initiatives than large price range AAA video games, so maybe that developer will proceed to climate the continuing storm of business layoffs. The Netflix people, hell everybody, may use a break!
What Evening College is engaged on stays a thriller as of proper now, however the firm did submit by itself LinkedIn web page two months in the past that it was hiring, so the devs working there are certainly 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 recreation from the studio will get publically revealed. Except it suprises us all and drops one thing at SGF subsequent month.
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