Avowed game director and Obsidian staffer for over a decade, Carrie Patel, has departed Obsidian Entertainment to join Netflix-owned Night School. She starts as a game director.
On LinkedIn (via Insider Gaming), she shared the news she’s joined the Oxenfree developer. There isn’t really anything more about what she’s working on. The studio is only really known for two games at this time, though, if we had to guess, Patel would probably head up some new IP being cooked up in the very background. That said, it’s also possible she’ll take hold of Thronglets, which is a Black Mirror tie-in.
Her departure to Night School is kind of shocking, as Netflix has been very on-again-off-again in its efforts to enter the gaming scene, having shuttered its internal AAA game studio late last year and pulled all interactive specials, including Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
