Avowed director Carrie Patel has left the legendary RPG Company Obsidian Entertainment just a few months after the release of his latest game.
In an update to her LinkedIn page, Patel revealed that she has started a new job at Night School, a Netflix-owned developer behind Netflix-owned Narrative Adventure.
“I’m pleased to have started a new position as a game director at Night School: Netflix Game Studio!” Patel wrote in a brief update. Patel’s new role at Night School will once again become the game director, but what she is working on remains unannounced.
Night School is the most famous game in the OxenFree series, the latest 2023 OxenFree 2: Lost Signals. The Netflix-owned studio released a belp of the Black Mirror spin-off earlier this year, about the same time that it suffered from an unknown number of layoffs. A few months ago, Netflix closed another studio completely, working on an AAA gaming project led by Halo veteran Joseph Staten.
Patel is a veteran of Avowed Developer Obsidian and has worked for over 11 years in a variety of senior positions, including the Xbox Sci-Fi RPG The Outer Worlds and The Classic Pillars of Eternity series.
More recently, Patel had taken on an openly supervised governance after the game was rebooted early in development. Avowed was originally planned in a dark fantasy setting, close to an elder scroll.
Ultimately, Patel pilots the game, launching it as a brighter, more unique experience, featuring multiple large individual maps and a completely single player experience to explore.
The response to Avowed was mostly positive, with Patel initially discussing plans for the franchise to continue — in an expansion, a full-fledged sequel, or both. But now Patel is not part of that future.
The Avowed Development Roadmap, released last week, detailed an array of most minor additional offerings that will be offered free of charge over the next six months, including Photo Mode and the new Game Plus Offering.
“With great world building and great character writing, Avowed reminds me of why I fell in love with Obsidian’s RPG in the first place,” reads Passthecontroller’s Avowed Review. “But the bigger picture is that it’s very safe and it’s a fantasy adventure with numbers that are more familiar than evolution, and it’s very safe.”
Obsidian’s next project will be shown in detail at this year’s Xbox Games Showcase in June.
Tom Phillips is the news editor for Passthecontroller. You can contact Tom at [email protected] or find him at bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
