In this issue of the Freeform Games newsletter we talk about playtesting our new murder mystery game (The Reality is Murder), Trustpilot, GDPR, our discussion forum (RIP!) and share great stories about our games.
Our newsletter, featuring a new game (The Reality is Murder, a video of Hollywood Lies, rules for solving pickpocket crimes and more.
It’s the start of a new year, and that means it’s time for our traditional time to reflect on the previous year. We’ve been doing this since 2013. 2017 was pretty successful for us in terms of sales, as we were slightly up on 2016 sales, although 2011 still reigns supreme. However, in terms of things that we planned to do… that’s a different...
Here's a roundup of murder mystery party games by Hexagamers. They’ve taken a good long look at the various murder mystery companies that you can find on the internet and are trying them out to judge which really are the best. Happily, we’re in the list - but they have yet to try one of our games. We’re looking forward to their feedback when they...
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...
Cornelius and Janice conspiring on the balcony We don’t often get to play our games, but last weekend I played in A Will to Murder. Guy, one of my tabletop roleplaying friends, had bought A Will to Murder, and wanted to try one it with some of his friends. Although he didn’t ask me to run it (I thought he was going to), I said I was happy to play...
(Guest blog post by Jessica Andrews, author of Death on the Rocks.) Death on the Rocks Ok, I’m just going to tell it like it is: hosting a 1930s party, murder mystery or otherwise, is not that easy. Twenties is obvious – just cover everything indiscriminately in feathers and strings of pearls – and for fifties you can just bust out some...
It’s the start of a new year, and that means it’s time for our traditional time to reflect on the previous year. We did this last year, in 2014 and 2013. 2016 was an extraordinary year in many ways. Here at the Freeform Games HQ, we’re pretty happy with how 2016 went for us. Sales overall were up 29% on 2015, and it was our second-best year ever...
In this issue of our newsletter we announce a half-price seasonal sale on The Night Before Christmas and Dazzled to Death.
Front cover for the Death on the Gambia cover booklet You may not have noticed, but we've given Death on the Gambia a refresh. Death on the Gambia was our first game, and it's been in need of a refresh ever since we reformatted our games. So it now each character has a character booklet like all our newer games. Unlike our recent Hollywood Lies...