Clip detail: MINSKY 4/15/1969 framed as a filmstrip

About this game

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

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What to study

This is the other half of the archive: one clip pulled out of the grid and held up as a strip of film, dated by hand — 'MINSKY - 4/15/1969' — with the rest of the archive still visible around its edges. The chrome is identical to the grid view (same four icons, same play and heart), so the player never leaves the archive; focusing a clip just swaps the browsing grid for the reel itself. It is the closest the trailers get to showing the match-cut idea: a single image, isolated, waiting to be the thing you match against.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

archive-card detail-panel icon-rail diegetic-controls

Components

Parts on screen.

Window Clock Button prompts

Screen inventory

• One clip centred and framed as a filmstrip, sprocket holes top and bottom
• Handwritten label 'MINSKY - 4/15/1969' under the frame
• Same left icon rail: clapperboard/image toggle, calendar/date filter, funnel filter, heart-favorites filter
• Bottom-right play triangle and heart outline controls
• Neighbouring clips visible at the frame edges, the grid bleeding through behind the focused clip

Top 3 colors

#030303 27%#1b100e 20%#3f2a22 14%

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

Source and credit

© Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid / Half Mermaid, IMMORTALITY screenshot: IMMORTALITY Launch Trailer (Steam) — Sam Barlow / Half Mermaid, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Half Mermaid.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-05. verified 2026-11-05: manual ffmpeg extract at 8.0s from work/immortality/videos/steam-1350200-IMMORTALITY-Launch-Trailer.mp4; full-res 1920x1080 review; settled, legible, genuine UI; aHash 34-40 vs all 8 Her Story/Telling Lies screens, 33 vs keeper-0; no IMMORTALITY entry in manifest (1302 items / 272 games).

No published Half Mermaid / Sam Barlow creator, Let's Play, or fan-content policy found (checked 2026-11-05): halfmermaid.co homepage carries no policy page, and two web searches for a Half Mermaid video/creator/fan policy returned no Half Mermaid document (halfmermaid.com.au in results is an unrelated Australian company). Same no-policy fallback as Her Story (2026-10-22) and Telling Lies (2026-10-25): fair-use study/commentary, unofficial, not endorsed, takedown honoured within 48h.

Rights holders: see Copyright & takedown.