Sam Barlow (game designer)

Sam Barlow
Alma materUniversity of Bristol
OccupationVideo game designer
Years active1999–present
EmployerHalf Mermaid
Notable work

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.[1][2] He previously worked as a game director at Climax Studios,[3] before leaving in 2014 to become an indie game developer. He published his first independent game, Her Story, in June 2015.[4] In 2017 he founded Half Mermaid, a video game production company based in Brooklyn, New York.

  1. ^ Long, Neil. "Writer's roundtable: the death of Irrational and the trouble with blockbuster videogame narrative". Edge. Climax Studios game director Sam Barlow is a videogame writer of equal experience and renown, having written several Silent Hill games
  2. ^ "The Players: Climax Studios". GamesTM (61): 6. GamesTM speaks with Sam Barlow, the visionary lead designer on the latest Silent Hill to come from the heart of Climax Studios
  3. ^ "Key People". Climax Studios Official Site.
  4. ^ "Serial-style mystery game Her Story launches June 24". Polygon. 3 June 2015.