Freeform Games murder mystery blog

Virtual murder parties – Kumospace review

Mark R recently wrote to tell us about Kumospace. In Mark’s words… We did Reunion with Death back in 2020 using Zoom. The game was great, but Zoom is a bit clunky since the host must admit people to rooms. Kumospace layout I just bought Death in Venice. I'll use a different service this time: Kumospace. I haven't used it yet (other than to play...

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Updating Happy Birthday R.J.

We’ve recently updated Happy Birthday R.J. to our latest format. Happy Birthday R.J. was originally published in 2003. It was our fifth game and was written by Lisa Butler (who later wrote Snow Business and Casino Fatale). Next year it celebrates its 20th birthday! Taking place on SouthSpoon Ranch in 1980s Texas, Happy Birthday R.J. is full of...

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Freeform Games’ review of 2021

As you might expect, the pandemic dominated 2021 for Freeform Games, but we slowly started to recover from 2020.We’ve been doing these reviews since 2013 – you can read them all here. Online and offline play While 2020 showed a strong interest in playing our games online (using Zoom or similar), in 2021 we sold fewer copies of our online games...

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Adding 20 players to Hollywood Lies

We were recently asked how we would add around 20 additional characters to Hollywood Lies. That’s a lot, and as we’ve already talked about that for Casino Fatale, I thought I’d explain what I would do for Hollywood Lies. Hollywood Lies starts with 32 characters, and there are two additional characters. So an additional 20 characters means you...

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Updating The Night Before Christmas

We’ve just updated The Night Before Christmas into our current format. Written by Tracy Bose and initially published in 2004, we haven’t significantly updated the game in over a decade and it needed a reformat. Reformatting So while we haven’t changed the plots or characters, we’ve made numerous changes: The characters are now in the 8-page...

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Looking back: 20 years on

Twenty years ago, on 9th October 2001, Freeform Games was incorporated. So that’s the day we celebrate as our birthday. We made our first sale ten weeks later, on 17th December. Way out West In 2001… There was no iPhone, iPad, Facebook or Twitter. Google was three years old, and Amazon was nothing like the behemoth it is now. And Microsoft’s...

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