Carrie Patel (game director of Avowed) moves to Netflix Game Studio

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Carrie Patel, the director behind Avowed, has left Obsidian Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios for a new opportunity at Netflix Games.

In a post on LinkedIn, Patel confirmed the news herself stating that she was joining Night School as a game director. Patel leaves Obsidian after nearly 12 years where, in addition to working as a game director, she was a narrative co-lead and senior narrative designer.
 
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Draugoth said:

Carrie Patel, the director behind Avowed, has left Obsidian Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios for a new opportunity at Netflix Games.

In a post on LinkedIn, Patel confirmed the news herself stating that she was joining Night School as a game director. Patel leaves Obsidian after nearly 12 years where, in addition to working as a game director, she was a narrative co-lead and senior narrative designer.
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That's a bummer. I liked Avowed, and it looks she recovered that game pretty nicely considering all the changes in development.
 
That's a shocking move. Night School is pretty small time. Taking a big check from Netflix? I have no idea. She seemed pretty cool in all the numerous promo interviews she did, and Avowed was great. Weird decision.
 
Netflix is an Xbox…

Might have gotten a chance to pitch her dream product and they offered to help her make it?

Many folks like avowed and I haven't followed the games performance, but obsidian might not be able to return to that world anytime soon (again…conjecture from my part). Maybe she would rather spend time working on something she is passionate about as opposed to whatever she was going to work on next at Obsidian.
 
Makes me a bit curious about what Night School is actually working on. At this point I think that's about the only game studio Netflix even owns. Gotta be something a bit more ambitious than Oxenfree. Cloud works, so if they actually pulled off something compelling it could be played by millions of people.
 
Mr Moose said:
12 years is a pretty long time. Netflix though? :pie_thinking:
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Go Do It GIF by Saturday Night Live
 
Cakeboxer said:
I have Netflix, but no idea what Netflix Games is. Good for her i guess, anything Netlfix sounds like money.
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It took me a while to find the games too.
You have to open up netflix on your cellphone and the games are listed there. click on games will bring you too the store where you download.
 
Magic Carpet said:
It took me a while to find the games too.
You have to open up netflix on your cellphone and the games are listed there. click on games will bring you too the store where you download.
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It's on my TV now also mixed in with everything else without touching my phone. Played a co-op puzzle game with the wife a while ago. It was fine. Little laggy, but works for turn based or slower stuff.
 
Cakeboxer said:
I have Netflix, but no idea what Netflix Games is. Good for her i guess, anything Netlfix sounds like money.
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There is a ton of absolutely free iOS games you can play with a Netflix subscription. I think GTAIV is one of them. Worth checking out as these games are higher quality than your average iOS slop.
 
Yumi Yang poaching left and right. And yeah, Netflix is always the company that outbids everyone for talent they want, and Microsoft in general is not exactly the pillar of stability. Not because they're doing poorly, but because they're greedy as fuck.
 
Avowed was fine, just as Outer Worlds was fine, just as Grounded was fine, just as Pentiment was fine, just as Outer Worlds 2 looks to be fine

I have never gotten the Obsidian hype, especially the last 10 years or so. They are a good studio, but it seems very clear they don't seem to want to make the AAA gaming jump, which is what I expected after MS purchased them

Avowed was like 75% of an amazing RPG. It just clearly got dragged down by lack of time and resources to complete it. The game being a modest hit is probably a big win, especially with the development hell it apparently went through. Hopefully Carrie Patel got her bag from Netflix
 
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I have never HEARD of another human, in life, online or anything that uses Netflix to play games.

That sounds very 2013 Apple tv or something

Mobile games and indies

Probably got Fez on that joint still
 
Netflix has gutted their game development plans recently so the bag must have been significant.
 
Obsidian must be pretty stingy, considering what they say about their games and mild success.

They are still one of my fav dev though.
 
MoreJRPG said:
Netflix has gutted their game development plans recently so the bag must have been significant.
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not necessarily. it could be a question of position. Maybe she was not going to be able to be a Game Director in Obsidian (no new projects/management not happy with avowed's performance)
 
Never heard of her, but god damn i still can't believe that this is the studio that gave us New Vegas. Yes, not the same people obviously, but holy shit the difference in quality is astronomical.

Maybe if they had top scars, the game would've sold millions, and she wouldn't need to leave such a banger studio.
 
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Avowed was fine, just as Outer Worlds was fine, just as Grounded was fine, just as Pentiment was fine, just as Outer Worlds 2 looks to be fine

I have never gotten the Obsidian hype, especially the last 10 years or so. They are a good studio, but it seems very clear they don't seem to want to make the AAA gaming jump, which is what I expected after MS purchased them

Avowed was like 75% of an amazing RPG. It just clearly got dragged down by lack of time and resources to complete it. The game being a modest hit is probably a big win, especially with the development hell it apparently went through. Hopefully Carrie Patel got her bag from Netflix
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Their old stuff was fantastic. But they have long since sanded off all the cool edges
 
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