Damn you Netflix, damn you! Stealing our talent! First Joseph Staten and now Carrie Patel! 
Just kidding, Lol. It hurts to see her leave Obsidian because I thought she did a great full game director debut on Avowed but all the best to her, 12 years at the same company is a lot of time, across those 12 years she worked on 4 games, 3 of those were the Pillars of Eternity IP, the majority of her time was spent on one IP and then of those 12 years, about 5 years were spent on directing a single AAA IP (once again, Pillars IP). But unfortunately she was one of the Pillars veterans, her alongside Josh Sawyer were the top two people on Pillars.
She takes up a role at Night School, the developers of Oxenfree, a small studio of only around 50, she also takes the same role she had at Obsidian (Director) so she'll still be a team lead/creator and so I'm going to assume that she's going through a Josh Sawyer moment of wanting to lead on something small and different now but Obsidian didn't have the capacity to allow that at the minute considering they already have multiple directors and multiple projects in development right now.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 20 May 2025
