Sam Barlow’s Her Story was offered ‘exposure’ in return for being put in a Tesla

In what turns out to be a strange turn of events, and possibly the slow death of Twitter, Elon Musk has finally bought the social media platform at last. In light of the news, and amidst the various complaints on Twitter, a few stories emerged about the SpaceX CEO’s previous endeavors.

One such story comes from sam barlow, designer of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and creator of Her Story, Telling Lies and Immortality. On Twitter after the news that Musk bought Twitter, Barlow shares that she was once asked to put Her Story of her on a car, with no payment other than “exposure.”

“Tesla once reached out to ask to put Her Story on a car. I asked how much they would pay for the license and to cover the engineering work; they suggested zero and that I consider the exposure it would get,” read Barlow’s tweet.

The game designer then responds to his own tweet, stating that “Your story in a car is still one of the dumbest ideas I’ve ever heard.”

It also appears that Sam Barlow wasn’t the only one offered the offer to put his game in a car without paying, with Untitled Goose Game developer Cabel Sasser chiming in on the thread to say, “Same thing re: Goose.”

I don’t know about you, but adding games to cars seems like a strange concept to me; Is there a market for people looking to crash their cars? Tesla hasn’t been the only company looking to merge video games and vehicles, as BMW has partnered with AirConsole to add games to its cars.

All I’m saying is that games should probably stay on the devices they’re intended for and stay out of vehicles. We already have our phones in cars, which seems like a pretty bad distraction to some people; I don’t trust car games to be any different.