Netflix buys Oxenfree

That Netflix wants to offer games in the future. Now the Group has acquired a first developer.

Video and computer games are the entertainment segment with the greatest growth and letters long ago higher sales figures than films. There is no wonder that companies that had nothing with the topic at the hat invest money to bring their own games to the market and to be drawn from a piece of cake. Just think of Amazon, which has released his own MMO yesterday with New World (with success, but also a big problem). That Netflix wants to produce its own games in the future, has been known for some time. An important step towards conquering the gaming market has now done the video-on-demand giant with the purchase of Night School Studio.

The team from Glendale, California has summoned in 2014 and published the celebrated Adventure Oxenfree two years later - a game in which the story is clearly in the foreground. 2019 followed with afterparty a similar title and for the coming year is Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals announced. Night School will continue to work on it, but not more than indie studio, but daughter of Netflix.

The acquisition has given CCO and co-founder Sean Pick on the official team of the team. For months with Netflix, you have talked about your own views where you see games and storytelling, as well as the possibilities to achieve a positive influence somewhere in the middle. Under the new mother s company, one wants to further extend its own narrative and design claim with unmistakable, original play with heart . Netflix gives film and TV creators as well as game developers a unprecedented way to create excellent entertainment for millions of people and deliver them, says sick. The own focus on narrative gameplay and Netflix success history in support of a variety of storytellers are simply a natural couple, says the developer.

Among Netflix Night School Studio continues to do exactly what it wants and how it wants. In the future, however, one enjoy more attention because you sit in the first row of one of the largest entertainment platforms in the world. And you are looking forward to it. Pickle writes that you are firmly convinced to have the chance to have a positive effect on how people discover story games, gamble and share with others.