Sam Barlow, the master of FMV games who wrote and directed the interactive video hits "Her Story" and "Telling Lies," has a new title, Project Ambrosio, but it's only a working title; the Steam On the Steam page, the name is "Project A"""""""""" and most of the game's description has been edited.

Based on the fragments we can read, we get the sense that Ambrosio (or whatever it is called) begins in 1968, stops in 1971 and 1999, and ends in 2022. Other unedited words in the description include: gothic, New York, pop star, barlow, custodian, concordance.

The inclusion of Barlow's own name suggests that there may be a self-referential nature to Ambrosio, which is supported by what Barlow told PC Gamer about the project in a recent interview regarding the fifth anniversary of Her Story

Barlow has also suggested that the project may be self-referential.

According to Barlow, the new film will question "the relationship between the game and the player" and "how stories are told in film, from the entire creative process to the act of watching."

"I want to see what happens when you constrain the player or push them in a direction they are not entirely comfortable with," Barlow said.

"Once you get into horror, you have even more options for doing that in games, like Her Story and Telling Lies, which are made up of realistic found footage, but are still called interactive movies." So for our next project, let's work on a movie."

With the money they received after the release of "Telling Lies," Barlow says he and Half Mermaid Productions can afford to "keep things interesting" by making a game that is "10 times more ambitious" than "Telling Lies." Given the scale of "Telling Lies" compared to "Her Story" before it, I'm inclined to credit Barlow's self-assessment.

The Steam page has a video clip with a short glitch of a snake, fire, and a pair of legs that allows one to infer more about Ambrosio. There is also a description of mature content ("adult themes including some sex and violence"), but I don't think that is part of the mystery.