indie game

Her Story

Content type
Creative Work
Author
Sam Barlow
Year
URL
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Her Story (Steam)
Language
English
Japanese
Publication Type
Application
Published on the Web (individual site)
Platform/Software
iOS
Android
MS Windows
Mac OS X
Record Status
Not yet reviewed
Tags
indie game
interactive film
detective
Description (in English)

Her Story is the award winning video game from Sam Barlow, creator of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and Aisle. A crime fiction game with non-linear storytelling, Her Story revolves around a police database full of live action video footage. It stars Viva Seifert, actress and one half of the band Joe Gideon and the Shark.

Her Story sits you in front of a mothballed desktop computer that’s logged into a police database of video footage. The footage covers seven interviews from 1994 in which a British woman is interviewed about her missing husband. Explore the database by typing search terms, watch the clips where she speaks those words and piece together her story.

(Source: Steam's description)

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IF Demo Fair, PAX East

Event type
Exhibition
Date
URL
Information
Address

Boston, MA
United States

Curator
Emily Short
Tags
interactive fiction
indie game
art game
experimental games
Short description

(Announcement): 

Do you have a vision of the (or a) future of interactive fiction that you would like to share with interested players, authors, implementers and theorists?

The IF Demo Fair will be running during PAX East (Boston, March 11-13), showcasing new and interesting demonstrations in the IF world.

These don’t need to be polished, complete games, just pieces that show off your concept. We’re particularly interested in demonstrations that explore one of our themes:

  • novel ways to interact with in-game characters
  • innovative user interfaces for text/story-based games

But if you have a great idea that doesn’t match either of these themes, send it anyway! We welcome any demonstration that can reasonably be construed as relating to interactive fiction and storytelling: traditional parser-based IF, works with multimedia and graphical components, choose-your-own-adventure, or interactive poetry.

Record Status
Not yet reviewed
indie game