Planning to host A Speakeasy Murder? An easy way to make your murder mystery party feel like a genuine 1920s Chicago speakeasy is to encourage everyone to dress the part. Plus suggestions for every character.
We have a packed issue, with our newest game, a competition, and another call for playtesters. Plus we visit a larp festival in Leeds, appear on a podcast and more.
One of our experienced customers shared a tip for making these awards easier: use online voting to make tallying the votes quick and painless.
So how was 2025 for Freeform Games? In summary, we published more games (yay!), but sales were flat (hmmm).
Our Christmas 2025 newsletter, which talks about Christmas games, tips for Hollywood Lies, looks at murderers and their victims – and calls for playtesters!
We had a recent query about the gender of our murderers, as a customer was looking for games with female murderers.
Tips for Hollywood Lies from the People’s Theatre including set dressing, awards, multiple hosts, posters and more.
This time we have two new games, a story about a customer from 20 years ago and a 20% discount code.
An old customer contacted us and we were able to let her access the games she bought nearly 20 years ago!
Welcome to the Freeform Games murder mystery newsletter.
This time, we are looking for playtesters, updating Lei’d to Rest, sharing an idea for creating player scoresheets and talking about our catalog.