Here are our Wild West costume ideas, along with photos from our customers, for costuming for our games set in the 1800s USA: Way out West and Who Shot the Sheriff.
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Freeform Games murder mystery blog
Using our murder mystery games for Christmas
While we have a few murder mystery games for Christmas, written with a specific festive theme, you can host any of our games during the festive season. And with a few adjustments, you can make them Christmassy as well!
Casting Murder on the Istanbul Express
Using a Google Form to help cast Murder on the Istanbul Express murder mystery game.
Post-party feedback
After a murder mystery party we like to get feedback from our players. We primarily do this to improve our games, but I’ve started asking for stories. As well as celebrating the party’s success, stories are the only way I get to discover what happened. (As host, I am often the last person to find out what’s going on.) Post-party feedback So after...
Kumospace tips
In our last post, Mark R told us about Kumospace, a spacial chat app he used to host Death in Venice. So I thought I’d try it out and successfully ran Reunion with Death using Kumospace. Reunion with Death on Kumospace - the pop-out map showing the whole floor is on the right So here are my tips for using Kumospace: Names: Ask everyone to change...
Hosting and Playing Death in Venice
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...
Decorating your venue – lockdown style!
One of our customers, Peal, got in touch with us recently to share with us a site they had prepared for lockdown Murder at Sea with 20 guests. We’re really impressed - it’s a great way to set the scene for your online murder mystery party. They built their site using Google sites. I’m not sure if they used one of the templates or if they built it...
Prizes Galore!
Suggestions for prizes (and prize categories) from our customers.
From our mailbox: twins
Recently we were asked a question about having two people play the same character. (It might have been a mixup, and by the sounds of it the game was oversubscribed.) Our answer was that while it was tricky, it was doable - particularly with the character she had chosen. What we recommended was to make the characters twins. To do this: Give each...
How to Host a 1930s Murder Mystery Party (and get away with it)
(Guest blog post by Jessica Andrews, author of Death on the Rocks.) Death on the Rocks Ok, I’m just going to tell it like it is: hosting a 1930s party, murder mystery or otherwise, is not that easy. Twenties is obvious – just cover everything indiscriminately in feathers and strings of pearls – and for fifties you can just bust out some...