Twenty years ago, on 9th October 2001, Freeform Games was incorporated. So that’s the day we celebrate as our birthday. We made our first sale ten weeks later, on 17th December. Way out West In 2001… There was no iPhone, iPad, Facebook or Twitter. Google was three years old, and Amazon was nothing like the behemoth it is now. And Microsoft’s...
Our murder mystery newsletter! In this issue, we have a brand new game for you: Murder on the Istanbul Express! And a great story about Way out West.
We have received a great story from Rosie about her Way out West Zoom party. Way out West on Zoom I ran Way out West via zoom for a group of old school friends last weekend and it was so much fun! The players said it was one of the best evenings they’ve had all year. I wrote one extra character. My husband played it and said it worked really...
Gather.town is a map-based virtual space where users can walk around a map and engage in video conversation based on their proximity to one another. Although we've not tried it, it's another option if you want to run a murder mystery game online. The Food is to Die For The restaurant Gather.town uses a map, and while several are provided none of...
Unsurprisingly, 2020 was all about the pandemic for Freeform Games. 2020 had started well, with sales in January and February building on 2019 (which was a good year for us). And then in March the pandemic properly reached the UK and USA and our sales dropped off a cliff… We’ve been doing these reviews since 2013 – you can read them all here....
Our murder mystery newsletter with details of our Christmas games.
In this issue, we have an exciting new game, as well as more lockdown tips and suggestions and a suggestion for mass murder! (No, not really.)
Last weekend I hosted and played Death in Venice, using Discord for video chat. When Mo wrote Death in Venice earlier in the year I deliberately kept away from it because I wanted to play and host simultaneously. Normally our games don’t allow us to do that – the host needs to know too much about what’s going on, but as the games we’ve written...
In an earlier post Kelly from Michigan told us about the prizes she awards when she hosts one of our murder mystery games. The Reality is Murder She then told us about another thing she does - mass murder! “We usually have a mass murder after the game is over. I let anyone who wants to kill anyone else if they win at RPS, it doesn't matter if...
Lord and Lady Westing’s Will is one of our more challenging murder mystery games to run online. The game is set in an English country house with numerous private bedrooms to sneak into. Our rules for searching the rooms involve talking to the host (because you probably don’t have an English country house of your own to run the game in). Different...