‘The Walking Dead’ publisher to adapt emotional Oxenfree game for film and other projects

The gaming industry isn’t an easy place for indie developers to make money, which is possibly why one of them is looking to break their game out into other industries as well.

Developer Night School Studio is working with The Walking Dead comic-book publisher Skybound to adapt Oxenfree — an interesting new game due out this month for Xbox One and PC — into film and other mediums. This is Skybound’s area of expertise as, under the leadership of president David Alpert and The Walking Dead writer Robert Kirkman, it has produced games, merchandise and more. And while gaming is a massive industry worth tens of billions of dollars, that money has grown harder and harder for indie developers to come by. And Night School Studio may have generate more revenue by working with a partner that can guide it into other spaces. That’s especially true after partnering with Skybound, which is responsible for some of the most popular comic books in the world as well as two AMC television shows based on The Walking Dead that regularly have larger audiences than anything else on cable.