Welcome to the Freeform Games murder mystery party newsletter!
Hi,
Welcome to the latest issue of our occasional newsletter! In this issue:
- New game – The Roswell Incident
- Extra characters for Murder on the Dancefloor
- Updated versions of Way out West and Death on the Gambia
- Playtest opportunity – The Purrfect Murder
Enjoy!
Mo and Steve
A brand new murder mystery party game – The Roswell Incident!
In June 1947, an Idaho pilot reported seeing a string of nine shiny unidentified flying objects flying past Mount Rainier at speeds of 1,200 miles an hour.
One week later, something crashed near Roswell, New Mexico (population 25,000). An experimental aircraft? A weather balloon? A secret military project? Or something else?
Two days later and Roswell has visitors. It is noon, July 3, 1947.
The Roswell Incident is a new mystery from Steve Hatherley, who wrote Death on the Gambia and Hollywood Lies. It’s our first science-fiction themed murder mystery game – we know that lots of you have been waiting for one of these!
The Roswell Incident is for 10–13 guests and a host, and it’s been designed to be suitable for adults and teenagers.
Click here to learn more about The Roswell Incident.
The Roswell Incident’s cast
Citizens of Roswell
- Mayor Weinrib: Roswell’s mayor
- Sheriff Jackson: Roswell’s police chief
- Dr. Blake: Vet, with a practice opposite the sheriff’s office
- Turner: Cattle rancher living north of Roswell, originally from England
- Karns: Chain-smoking mechanic and junkyard owner
- Finley: Roswell Courier reporter
Roswell Army Air Field
- Major Collins: US Army major
- Sgt. Baker: Major Collins’ driver
- Dr. Fowler: Shark Systems Inc scientist
Visitors
- Prof. Kraushaar: Physicist at the University of New Mexico
- Zivojinovic: Junior reporter for Albuquerque Chronicle
- Agent Franz: FBI agent
- Agent Deacon: Junior FBI agent
Extra characters for Murder on the Dancefloor!
Many thanks to Pam Hoffmann and Jeremy Gustafson, who’ve created five new extra characters for our 1950s diner-set murder mystery game, Murder on the Dancefloor.
- Alex Anthony – local resident, the spouse of Dallas Anthony
- Alice Wyatt – diner waitress
- Finley Emerson – traveler visiting town
- Rock Carmichael – forest ranger
- Sasha Black – local resident, the sibling of Alex Anthony
… are all included when you purchase the game, together with our own extra character Ginger Roberts – so you can now run Murder on the Dancefloor for up to 25 guests.
New versions of Way out West and Death on the Gambia
We’ve updated two of our oldest games: Death on the Gambia and Way out West.
Way out West is suitable for adults and for teenagers, and it can cope with any number of guests from 10 up to 24.
Death on the Gambia is a 1930s murder mystery game set aboard a river boat for 8 to 11 guests and a host.
If you’ve purchased either game in the past, then you’re entitled to download the new version, of course – just contact us.
Would you like to playtest our next game?
The Purrfect Murder, by Karolina Soltys, is set in the competitive world of cat shows – the last place you would expect to find a murder!
We’re looking for people to host the game with their friends and then feed back to us about how it went – to pick up on any inconsistencies, things that aren’t explained properly, and anything else that we might have missed. (And to ask your guests to do the same, about the characters that they played.) You don’t get paid for this, but you do get to run the game for free, and you’ll be thanked in its acknowledgements when we publish it later this year!
The Purrfect Murder is for 9–12 guests, aged 15+ – please get in touch with us if you’re interested in hosting it as a playtest. We will need you to be able to host the party, and feed back to us about it, by the end of September. (And we will aim to get the game materials to you within a week or so from now.)
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