Freeform Games murder mystery blog

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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