A Heroic Death is one of our more complex games in terms of moving parts - it has superpowers and hidden identities and specific locations. So we never thought it would be a candidate for online play during coronavirus lockdown. How wrong we were! Eve Bennett successfully ran A Heroic Death with her friends spread across three cities, two in...
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...
Our murder mystery newsletter, featuring a new game (Reunion with Death) written to be played online during lockdown! And tips for playing our games online.
To help with those Coronavirus lockdown blues, we've just released our latest game - Reunion with Death. Reunion with Death is for 6-9 players (and one host as usual) and has been written to be played online in lockdown, using video chat. We've included detailed instructions for using Google Hangouts, but you can use any system that you are...
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...
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...
Suggestions for prizes (and prize categories) from our customers.
We're mid-way through January so it's time to look back and see how the last twelve months have been. I don’t like to do this in December, because the year isn’t fully over and we haven’t tallied all the sales. Death on the Gambia We’ve been doing these reviews since 2013 - you can read them all here. 2019 continued to build on the success of...
One of our customers, Rob from Canada, wrote to tell us about a variant for our pickpocket rules that he used. Watch out - there's a pickpocket about! Here’s the text that he prepared for those with the pickpocket skill: Your character has the Pickpocket ability. Your ability card shows what you can pickpocket and how many attempts you have...
Here’s a great YouTube video about interactive murder mystery games created by Isaac Litkowitz and friends.