In this issue of the Freeform Games mystery party newsletter, we talk about our half-price Halloween offer and an update for The Food is to Die For.
Freeform Games newsletter September 2016: Halloween approaches
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Freeform Games newsletter August 2016: New edition of Casino Fatale
Welcome to the Freeform Games murder mystery party newsletter! In this issue we talk about a new edition of Casino Fatale and a playtest of a new game: The Food is to Die For.New edition of Casino Fatale! Ever since its launch back in 2005, Casino Fatale – our suave and sophisticated murder mystery of spies, gambling, and continental glamour –...
Freeform Games newsletter May 2016 – new version of Pirate Island
Welcome to the Freeform Games murder mystery party newsletter! In this issue we talk about a new edition of Pirate Island, using Under the Big Top as a fundraiser, and A school for murder (mystery!) New edition of Pirate Island! We've expanded our fabulous party game for younger children, Pirate Island, so that it now works for anywhere...
Adding eight pirates to Pirate Island
We've just tweaked Pirate Island so that it now works with up to 32 pirates. I'm going to explain the how and the why of doing that. The why Pirate Island had been bugging me for a while - because it's actually a bit fiddly to prepare. Scout Master Richard running Pirate Island - and on his 50th birthday as well! Pirate Island is a team game,...
Looking back at 2015
It’s the start of a new year and that means it’s time for us to look back and reflect on how we did last year. We did this last year, and for 2013 before that. Sales overall were up 7% on 2014, and it was our best since 2012. Sales might have been even higher, but for some website problems - more on that below. Hopefully this trend will continue...
Our standard rules
We use some standard rules in our murder mystery games to cover situations such as combat, poisoning, death and the like. We’ve now made these available in pdf form so that you can share them with your players.
Developing Hollywood Lies: Part 2
In Part 1 I talked about updating Hollywood Lies - bringing it into the modern format, making it completely kid-friendly, making all the characters gender-neutral, and including the extra character pack in the main game. In this post I talk about how I did it. Preparing the character booklets Detective Chase (right) investigates the murder. The...
Developing Hollywood Lies
So for much of 2015 I have been spending my spare time updating Hollywood Lies and bringing it into our current format. We finally released it in early December.As well as re-formatting it (to bring it up to our current standard, as I had done recently with Murder at Sea), we had a few other ideas for developing Hollywood Lies: To make Hollywood...
Freeform Games newsletter December 2015: Hollywood Lies updated
Welcome to the Freeform Games murder mystery party newsletter! In this issue we talk about a new edition of Hollywood Lies.New edition of Hollywood Lies As we mentioned on our blog, one of our targets for 2015 was to update Hollywood Lies into our current format. Hollywood Lies is one of our best sellers and we wanted to give it a facelift. As...
From the author: Jessica Andrews
Here's the third in our occasional series of author profiles. This time it's Jessica Andrews - author of our 1930s murder mystery Death on the Rocks. Jessica Andrews Jessica is a freelance history book editor from south east London. She‚ adores a good mystery as much as a good party, and ever since she discovered that the two could be combined,...