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 New York. Source: Wikipedia (en)