We use some standard rules in our murder mystery games to cover situations such as combat, poisoning, death and the like. We’ve now made these available in pdf form so that you can share them with your players.
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Developing Hollywood Lies: Part 2
In Part 1 I talked about updating Hollywood Lies - bringing it into the modern format, making it completely kid-friendly, making all the characters gender-neutral, and including the extra character pack in the main game. In this post I talk about how I did it. Preparing the character booklets Detective Chase (right) investigates the murder. The...
Developing Hollywood Lies
So for much of 2015 I have been spending my spare time updating Hollywood Lies and bringing it into our current format. We finally released it in early December.As well as re-formatting it (to bring it up to our current standard, as I had done recently with Murder at Sea), we had a few other ideas for developing Hollywood Lies: To make Hollywood...
Freeform Games newsletter December 2015: Hollywood Lies updated
Welcome to the Freeform Games murder mystery party newsletter! In this issue we talk about a new edition of Hollywood Lies.New edition of Hollywood Lies As we mentioned on our blog, one of our targets for 2015 was to update Hollywood Lies into our current format. Hollywood Lies is one of our best sellers and we wanted to give it a facelift. As...
From the author: Jessica Andrews
Here's the third in our occasional series of author profiles. This time it's Jessica Andrews - author of our 1930s murder mystery Death on the Rocks. Jessica Andrews Jessica is a freelance history book editor from south east London. She‚ adores a good mystery as much as a good party, and ever since she discovered that the two could be combined,...
Freeform Games newsletter October 2015: Games for Halloween
Welcome to the Freeform Games murder mystery party newsletter! In this issue we talk about: Other games for Halloween Meet the author – Jessica Andrews Enjoy! Mo and SteveOther games for Halloween Of course, you don't have to buy a special Halloween-themed murder mystery to have a Halloween party – you can use any of our murder mysteries, and...
Writing a murder
As part of this year’s Hollywood Lies update, one of the changes I have made was to the murder plot. The original murder plot involved a love affair, and that was no longer appropriate as I was making the game more kid-friendly and gender neutral. So this is what I did. Plotting a murder The first thing I needed to do was work out the basic plot...
Adding Skype and cryptography to The Spy Who Killed Me
We’ve got something a bit different this time - a story from customer Mark Lemay about adding Skype and simple cryptography to The Spy Who Killed Me. Here’s Mark: When I ran The Spy Who Killed Me I created two additional characters who were only contactable by Skype. The players playing the characters were remote from the party, and I had two...
Writing gender neutral characters for Hollywood Lies
As I mentioned in our review of 2014, I am updating Hollywood Lies and bringing it into our current format. However, one of the things that it making this harder (and therefore taking much more time than it otherwise should), is that I am making all the characters gender-neutral so that they can be played by men or women. Hollywood Lies - our...
Freeform Games newsletter May 2015: Death on the Rocks
Welcome to the latest Freeform Games newsletter! In this mini-issue we announce our new game: Death on the Rocks. Enjoy! Mo and SteveDeath on the Rocks launches! Just a quick note to tell you about the release of our new murder mystery party game – Death on the Rocks! Get Death on the Rocks here.Here's a summary: Death on the Rocks is for 12–16...