After a year of mysterious teases, Half Mermaid took to the virtual E3 stage to reveal Sam Barlow's new game, IMMORTALITY. The announcement trailer debuted during the Future Games Show and closed out Day 2 of E3 2021.
We haven't released many details about Project Ambrosio, the next title from Her Story creator Sam Barlow, but this Sunday, as part of The Future Games Show, we're letting a few more into the world. We will peel back the ██████!
The show will be streamed on Sunday, June 13 at 4PM PDT / 7PM EDT /12AM* Midnight BST / 1AM* CEST (*The morning of June 14) on Twitter, Twitch, Facebook, YouTube, and GamesRadar.
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Telling Lies 1st Anniversary!
It's been over a year since Telling Lies dropped on Steam! Thank you to everyone who has played, streamed, wishlisted, talked about and otherwise supported the game over the past twelve months.
In order to celebrate this milestone, Sam Barlow, the creator of Telling Lies, Her Story, and the upcoming Project A███████, will stream the game, shedding light on its development, production, and design.
Join Sam this Wednesday @ 1PM Eastern. Set a reminder from this page so you don't miss uncovering the making of this story of four private lives and the lies that bind them.
If you enjoyed the game and want to stay up to date on what Sam and the rest of the team is up to, make sure to follow the studio, Half Mermaid and wishlist our next project!
Blog: The Map & The Territory – Small Worlds (2009, Flash)
Over on the Half Mermaid Productions blog, Sam talks about one of the titles that continues to inspire the new project.
To celebrate the Five Year Anniversary of Her Story's release, Sam Barlow has teased his next project.
It's codenamed Project A███████ and you can head to the game page to dig into its cryptic imagery and curiously obscured words. The Steam page is as mysterious as the game itself will be!
Whilst you're there feel free to wishlist the game! The more people wishlist, the more will be revealed of the page...
This game might be dangerous, you should stay away.
Enjoy!
Telling Lies shortlisted for Ultimate Game of the Year
The Golden Joysticks has announced its shortlist for the Ultimate Game of the Year, and Her Story's follow up Telling Lies is on it! They say:
"Sam Barlow directs his greatest work to date with this exploded – and explosive – narrative adventure. Telling Lies gives you the tools to explore a stolen NSA database of live-action clips with the same flexibility and freedom as the very best open-world adventure games. Industry-shaking stuff."
In case you missed it, Sam Barlow's new game "Telling Lies" is now out! In 12 languages!
The game’s reception has been pretty fantastic. Some of our fave reviews:
“Endless possibilities in brilliant detective story” The Guardian (★★★★★) "A full-motion video triumph" Polygon "An absolute masterpiece" Gameblog.fr (90) "One of the most brilliant video games of the year" Washington Post (90) "A paragon for storytelling" Gamesradar+ (90)
Mashable ran a great in-depth piece on the game where Jess Joho concluded that the game was, well, “f**king great". The full article contains more such insights and Jess's experience of visiting the set during filming.
And the world’s most edgy videogame magazine, Edge, just hit the shelves with their 9/10 review and really nailed what the game was going for. Here's a piece of it:
It’s utterly convincing stuff on the parts of Logan Marshall-Green, Alexandra Shipp, Kerry Bishé and Angela Sarafyan, who bring their expertise to bear in all of Barlow’s carefully created time and space with devastating subtlety. The very action of scrubbing is compulsive – each speed clunking into gear as you sway your pointer back and forth, almost conducting the performances – and also magnifies the actors’ craft, as well as Barlow’s deft directorial hand. Watching expressions shift in accelerated time, or tears roll up an agonised face; catching a flinch at a particular word, then pausing to examine closely; your heart-rate slowing as you watch someone sleep for three minutes, mind racing at a connection you’ve just made; the effect is of playing director, interrogator and friend all at once.
It feels real in a way most directed narratives – especially those found in videogames – don’t. Barlow has delivered his finest work to date, a visionary art film-cum-player performance piece that could only have come from a creator who set his sights on the future of interactive entertainment before Bandersnatch was even a twinkle in the eyes of Netflix’s execs. The freedom, generosity and candidness with which Telling Lies presents itself has clearly taken a huge amount of precision work from both its director and its cast.
Let us know what you think of the game! And leave a review! Every review helps, especially with games that are outside the ordinary like this one :)
New Telling Lies Trailer!
We just released a new trailer for Telling Lies! Check it out on the store page!
