Far-future action on the trail of a serial killer in Star Marshal: The Paper Trails, this is the final weekend for the Kickstarter and we've one more stretch goal to reach - can we do it?! Blends Judge Dredd style action with Blade Runner ethos. Lots of information, images and downloadable content on the campaign page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thegrinningfrog/star-marshal-the-paper-trails Our next Kickstarter will be for Final Quest: Odyssey. Set prior to the first two games,...
New additions to the webstore
Design Diary where we explore the design process of creating a sequel to an existing Pocket Game
Hey folks, For all Starship Scavenger players and anyone who enjoys a little satire, let me present this copy of the Frontier Times, Issue 4942. To get the pdf version, which comes with all the previous issues, go to the downloads page and click and download your very own copy, for absolutely nothing. It's a freebie! https://www.thegrinningfrog.com/downloads (then scroll down to find it) For those of you who haven't seen it before, we release this on a semi-regular basis (we aim for monthly...
After nearly three years of deliberation and redesign we are excited to announce Protocol Runners . This is our first cyberpunk content since 2023 (when we released Neo City ) but in that time we have produced Starship Scavengers and released over twenty publications for it. Into that universe, Ben created Star Marshal (new adventure coming to Kickstarter in May) which will be building up the outer worlds. Also in that time, I've been tinkering away with a tarot deck based game. In the end,...
About eighteen months ago I took a chance and crafted a game that I wanted to play. Mythos Rising was a Lovecraftian inspired battle between investigators working for the Midsummer Institute and cultists looking to bring an entity into our reality from BEYOND!
Hey folks, For some reason, we have never posted a blog when we have released a copy of the Frontier Times . Why? Don't know. Madness. So, for both all Starship Scavenger players and anyone who enjoys a little satire, let me present this copy of the Frontier Times, Issue 4941. To get the pdf version, which comes with all the previous issues , go to the downloads page and click and download your very own copy, for absolutely nothing. It's a freebie! https://www.thegrinningfrog.com/downloa...
Hey all, This is simply to tell you that our special Twelve Days of Christmas event is now live. Come get a free family game, and a scary solo play Zilight: Christmas game! Snowman Run! is a free print and play party game where you race snowmen around the table and try to be the first across the finishing line. With rules only a half page long, this is fast and easy to play. I can attest to it being a lot of fun, as you have such options as the ability to steal cards from other players,...
Hey all, I'm not quite ready to do an end of year wrap blog just yet but I am ready to say, as I always am, thank you to everyone who has supported us over the year. We've had a great year at The Grinning Frog and that's because of all our wonderful supporters and customers -- whether on Gamefound, Kickstarter or the webstore. We want to give back, and we have two fun things coming your way - including a completely free game -- let's start with that! Snowman Run! is a free print and play...
We have NEVER done this before, but now the shop stock levels are all updated, and Christmas is coming, and that Black Friday sale thing is looming (that we in Britain don't really understand), well, we decided to have a sale! Yes indeed. EVERYTHING is 20% off with the following code: blackfrogsale