Sam Barlow (game designer)
Sam Barlow | |
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| Alma mater | University of Bristol |
| Occupation | Video game designer |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Employer | Half Mermaid |
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Sam Barlow is a British video game designer, best known as the writer and designer of Her Story, the two British Silent Hill games Silent Hill: Origins and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, Telling Lies and Immortality. He previously worked as a game director at Climax Studios, before leaving in 2014 to become an indie game developer. He published his first independent game, Her Story, in June 2015, his first venture in a genre he has called the "desktop thriller." In 2017 he founded Half Mermaid, a video game production company based in Brooklyn, New York.