They had only starting to consider setting up a games studio of some kind and I remember filing it away as something cool that happened, but not so much an opportunity.

I remember speaking with Annapurna then, but it was early days. This is what happens when you make something that has a degree of notoriety. Sam Barlow: After Her Story came out, I did a lot of water bottle tours in Hollywood, general meeting where you just basically chat. ScreenAnarchy: How did you come to work with Annapurna Interactive? To get to the bottom of what Telling Lies is all about and what the future of interactive movies looks like, I got Sam Barlow on the phone as he walked through the streets of Brooklyn to pick up his kids one afternoon last week. From there, a search engine becomes your controller and you surf through more than nine hours of footage and clues. Once you download Telling Lies ( available soon on Steam) onto your device of choice, you become the owner of a stolen National Security Agency hard drive. Four years later, Barlow is set to release his next interactive opus, Telling Lies, a far more expansive movie game produced in partnership with Annapurna Interactive, the games imprint of Annapurna Films, known for producing some of Hollywood's biggest indies.Īnd like Her Story, Telling Lies once again straddles the line between film and video game with an A-list cast including Logan Marshall-Green ( Prometheus), Alexandra Shipp ( X-Men: Apocalypse), Kerry Bishé ( The Romanoffs), and Angela Sarafyan ( Westworld).

Her Story's dark, fragmented narrative proved to be an instant success for Barlow, receiving rave reviews and selling hundreds of thousands of copies almost overnight.

In it, viewers investigate a crime by searching and sorting through a database of videos, trying to piece together what happened and why. Sam Barlow is a writer and game designer perhaps best known for his interactive movie Her Story, a murder mystery told entirely through police interrogation clips that was released in 2015.

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