Steve Hatherley

Steve Hatherley played in his first freeform (Home of the Bold) in 1992 and has been hooked ever since. He also runs Freeform Games LLP with Mo Holkar, bringing freeform-style games to the general public. He lives in Yorkshire.

Steve's Freeforms

Steve has written the following freeforms:

• Death in the Fast Lane
• Death on the Gambia
• Halloween Lies
• Hollywood Lies
• An Incident at Two Bridge Junction

Steve has co-written the following freeforms:

• An Ecumenical Matter
• The Buffy the Vampire Slayer Party Freeform
• Carry on at Camp David
• The Marshenge Project
• Midsummer Mischief
• Once Upon A Time in Tombstone
• Pirate Island
• Trick or Treat
• Venice
• Railways and Responsibility
• Squaring the Circle
• Starboard Home
• The Ticking Dog

Steve's Articles

Steve likes writing articles about freeforms:

• Articles about freeforms
  • Things I learned from running Torch of Freedom
  • Lessons from Tombstone
  • Guns and Death in Tombstone
  • The Freeform Business
  • Running Hollywood Lies for work
  • Midsummer Mischief Design Notes
  • Combining Two Characters
  • The difference between LARP and freeform
  • Being responsible for UK Freeforms

• Articles about writing freeforms
  • The Freeform Writing Process
  • Writing Plots for Freeforms
    • Freeform Plot Elements
  • Expanding Plots
  • Writing Freeform Characters
  • Character Sheets
  • Creating Optional Characters
  • Peaky 2013, Venice, and What Happened in Blackpool
  • The Post-Peaky Writing Process
  • Writing Goals
  • Other People
  • Solving in-game crimes
  • The trouble with pickpocketing
  • Writing an optional character for a Freeform Games murder mystery game
  • Creating a Freeform Economy
  • Character Sheets
  • Creating a Plot Database using Zoho.com
  • If it ain't broke, don't rewrite it