It's mid-September and we're already thinking about Halloween, just a few weeks away now. We've got two Halloween-themed party games. The first is Halloween Lies, which is a Halloween-themed version of Hollywood Lies. (The two games are basically the same - just the setting has changed. So if you've played Hollywood Lies, you've already played...
We’re always very happy for our games to be used to raise money for charity. While we have commercial licences available for people who want to run our games commercially, if you want to run one for charity, here’s what you have to do: Choose a game. We suggest that you pick one of our larger games such as Murder at Sea, Casino Fatale or...
When I'm not making murder mystery games for Freeform Games, one of the other things I do is… make other kinds of games. (I may have a bit of a games problem. Although if you acknowledge it, it isn't a problem, isn't that right?) So just lately I've been thinking about card games, particularly small ones that can be played in a family context –...
I’ve just finished the excellent book Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking by Susan Cain. In it, Cain outlines the differences between introverts and extroverts and how society (American society in particular) values extroverts over their quieter brethren. Introverts and extroverts enjoying The Karma Club Now, I’m an...
In Sharp and Sensibility, I played the British Prime Minister who, as well as running the country, had to deal with his demanding daughter and her friends. In the UK and Australia, the games became known as “freeforms” whilst in the USA they became known as “theater-style larps”. They are often run at games conventions. Thus Mo and I started...
Our games aren’t always perfectly suited to your exact needs. Perhaps you want to set Casino Fatale in the 1920s, or perhaps you want to change the names of the characters in A Dead Man’s Chest to those of your favourite movie. Or perhaps you want to run Curse of the Pharaoh for children and need to rewrite the inappropriate plots. Some companies...
Today we launch Lord and Lady Westing’s Will, our 25th murder mystery party game. This time we’re visiting Derbyshire, England in 1935 and a party held to celebrate the life of Lord and Lady Westing, who recently died in a tragic air balloon accident in Switzerland. Guests include famous authors, weapons manufacturers, aristocrats, a ballerina...
Welcome to the first post of our new Freeform Games blog. We’re a bit late to blogging, but we’ve decided to finally start one because we do have a few things that we want to talk about and we don’t really have anywhere else to talk about them. We could use Facebook, but Facebook is very ephemeral and isn’t a good place for referring back or...