Following on from our last post about running a A Will To Murder in lockdown, we have another lockdown story - Way out West. Paul Barnard used Zoom and ownCloud (a bit like Dropbox or Microsoft OneDrive) to run Way out West across five houses. Here's how he did it. Way out West across five houses “With the Covid-19 isolation policies in place it...
Freeform Games murder mystery blog
Going online – murder mystery games in a worldwide pandemic
I'm sure I don't need to mention the worldwide coronavirus pandemic currently underway, but please be responsible in organising a social gathering and make sure you follow the latest advice. Playing Death on the Gambia before the days of social isolation Some of our customers are doing that - and still hosting our murder mysteries… A Will to...
Murder mystery video – with Freeform Games!
Here’s a great YouTube video about interactive murder mystery games created by Isaac Litkowitz and friends.
A Speakeasy Murder – video
Helena Mas sent us this spoiler-free video of A Speakeasy Murder, filmed at Cafe Repin in Potsdam, Germany.
Adding characters to Court in the Act
We were recently asked by Pam, one of our customers: I'm getting ready to run Court in the Act in three weeks time. I was just sending out character assignments tonight, and realized I accidentally listed Sir Walter Raleigh twice in my list, so I have two different people down to play him! My cast list/assignments is full, and I already have...
Hollywood Lies – actual play!
So what does a Freeform Games murder mystery party really look like? They're hard to describe, and if you've not seen or played in one, they're fairly hard to imagine. So here's a moment from Hollywood Lies, sent to us by Julie D'Augusta. In this scene, Jules Milton is being thrown out from the Post-Modern Freeform Movement (one of many plots in...
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...