Sam Barlow
CEO
Sam Barlow is the founder of Half Mermaid Productions and a director and writer of games that push the boundaries of interactive narrative. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories psychologically profiled its own players; Her Story reinvented the detective genre for the YouTube generation, and Telling Lies explored the conflict between government and intimacy via lives lived over video calls. His most ambitious project yet is IMMORTALITY, a horror story about 20th Century filmmaking, art and death.
SOME OF THE GAMES Sam WORKED ON
IMMORTALITY
Her Story
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Talks & sessions
From Her Story to Immortality: Making 21st Century Interactive Movies
If 20th Century storytelling was defined by broadcast media such as radio and network television, the 21st Century is going to be defined by digital storytelling. At the coalface of this movement, Sam Barlow has explored attacking traditional filmed storytelling from the perspective of a game designer. After Her Story and Telling Lies, Immortality is his most ambitious attempt yet to explore what happens when you try to make a Metroid game out of movies. Here he will talk through his design philosophies and the process of creating IMMORTALITY.