About Plotted Creatives
Impulsively created
I’m a working mom, a wife, a coach, and my 92-year-old father-in-law’s caretaker. Free time is not abundant, but occasionally my fellow neighborhood moms come together to play a murder mystery tabletop game. We sift through evidence, rule out suspects, and come to a consensus on who the murderer is.
But after the game is over, I am left wanting more — challenges, characters, storyline.
I want to feel like I finished a really good book or movie, where the character relationships and motivations seem real. I want to be emotionally invested in their outcomes. I want a more intertwined story.
For six months, I obsessed over the plot and characters. I didn’t have time to do anything with it because of my full-time job and family. But it was all unfolding in my head. When I started doing the actual writing, it changed even more.
How could I make my games different from what can be found on Amazon already? (I love the games on Amazon, by the way. Not throwing shade.)
I only saw two types of games:
- those you act out (not for me)
- single murder tabletop games
I didn’t see double murder mysteries. And I thought wouldn’t it be more fun to make it more challenging (for me as the creator, really) to have a cold case and a fresh murder that connected?
Plotted Creatives was born after sitting in the kid pickup line at my daughter’s school, coming up with geniusly clever literary company names — that were already taken. So. Many. Literary term companies. The games are creative. Their storylines are carefully plotted.
Plotted Creatives. Done.