Clip detail: ClipD188-A.MPEG with user tags and Add to Session

About this game

Developer: Sam Barlow · Publisher: Sam Barlow · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Encyclopedia / Codex

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What to study

Opening a result does not leave the database, it stacks another CornerStone window on top of it, named like a file, 'ClipD188-A.MPEG', with the search results still visible behind. The clip presents itself as evidence, not entertainment: a still with a play triangle, its own custody data burned into the footage (INT-ROOM B, 12:05:19, 03/07/94), a duration given as plain text ('0 min 21 sec'), and the game's one act of authorship offered to the player, a User Tags field, here still reading BLANK, beside Add to Session and Play buttons. Tagging is the note-taking system and the storytelling system at once: the words you file a clip under are the same words that will retrieve other clips, so this small form is where an interpretation becomes a search. Frame at about 0:41 in the Release Trailer (Steam), manually extracted at 41.0s: the scene-change pass emitted no frame for this screen.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

master-detail modal-panel portrait-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Window Clock

Screen inventory

• clip window title 'CornerStone - [ClipD188-A.MPEG]'
• video still with central play triangle
• in-footage overlay 'INT-ROOM B / DI 00524P' with time 12:05:19 and date 03/07/94
• '0 min 21 sec' duration readout
• 'User Tags:' field containing BLANK
• Add to Session button
• Play button with play glyph
• results row and '4 entries' line of the database visible behind the clip window
• desktop icons, Clock window and Readme.txt window still framing the scene

Top 3 colors

#0b4d4f 22%#09161f 21%#2d2355 19%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Sam Barlow, Her Story screenshot: Release Trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Sam Barlow.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-22. verified 2026-10-22: frame manually extracted at 41.0s from the pipeline-downloaded Release Trailer (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; real game UI (CornerStone clip window, ClipD188-A.MPEG title, 0 min 21 sec duration, User Tags BLANK field, Add to Session and Play buttons) confirmed visible and legible

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