# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-barlow
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:10:49.853Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-barlow"
name: "Sam Barlow"
slug: "sam-barlow"
description: "Sam Barlow is a British video game designer, best known as the writer and designer of Her Story, the two British Silent Hill games, 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."
tagline: "British video game designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_Barlow_headshot_(cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1901"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           48.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.715416
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/mrsambarlow"
    handle:    "mrsambarlow"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/mrsambarlow/"
    handle:    "mrsambarlow"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7134179/"
    handle:    "nm7134179"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%90%A8%E5%A7%86%C2%B7%E5%B7%B4%E6%B4%9B"
    title: "萨姆·巴洛"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "سام بارلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "سام بارلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Barlow_(game_designer)"
    title: "Sam Barlow (game designer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Barlow_(dise%C3%B1ador_de_videojuegos)"
    title: "Sam Barlow (diseñador de videojuegos)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "سم بارلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Barlow"
    title: "Sam Barlow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Barlow"
    title: "Sam Barlow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Barlow"
    title: "Sam Barlow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%83%2C_%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BC"
    title: "Барлоу, Сэм"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17030237"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2023876"
    title: "Sam Barlow"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump