WORTHING & MONCRIEFF

talk interactive to me

Worthing and Moncrieff, LLC is an independent developer of video game stories founded in 2015. What? You've never heard of us? Well pull up a stool my friend, and we’ll tell you a story. No, seriously, that’s what we do. We’re story-tellers and our medium of choice is digital games. We draw on the traditions of live theatre, classic mystery novels, board games, Victorian music, literature, architecture, print design, you name it. So grab a tablet, a laptop, or your favorite bit of gaming hardware and let’s talk stories.

We released our first title, A Matter of Murder, in April of 2016. Since then, it's appeared in festivals and showcases from Boston to San Francisco including the 2016 Google Play Indie Festival, one of only thirty games to be invited to participate. Austen Translation, a satirical strategy game set in a Jane Austen-inspired universe, was released on May 1, 2018. Austen was featured in both the 2017 and 2018 Boston Festival of Independent Games and IndieCade 2018. Worthing and Moncrieff's principals have spoken on game design, game audio and narrative structure at conferences including IndieCade East, Boston FIG Talks and GDC. The team is currently hard at work on their next unannounced title.

A Matter of Murder

Zounds! One of the guests at an English house party has fallen victim to cold-blooded murder. Your weekend in the country is ruined! What choice have you but to ask your fellow guests probing questions, search the house, draw astonishingly insightful conclusions and solve the crime?

“A Matter of Murder” is a point-and-click puzzle game with rogue-like elements for Windows, Mac and tablets. The details of each murder are procedurally generated, so the game is different every time you play with progressively more challenging logic puzzles.“A Matter of Murder” can also randomly combine logic puzzles to provide seemingly endless surprises and high replayability.

Austen Translation

Worthing & Moncrieff’s second title is a satirical strategy game called “Austen Translation.” Think Jane Austen meets the Dating Game with a dash of Flintstones thrown in. It’s a tongue-in-cheek riff on caustic literary rivalries, appalling preconceptions of the roles of women and men, and, of course, the unending quest to marry well. It released on Steam for MAC and PC on May 1, 2018.

Bose AR Jam

a fresh start

The W&M team is proud to have been invited to join Playcrafting and Bose at the first ever BoseAR GameJam this February in Boston. We were so grateful and excited to have had the chance to work with this amazing new technology. We’re also excited to share the work with you, so stay tuned for upcoming development news. Special thanks to Brian Jordan for joining us on this audio adventure.

Now that “Austen Translation” has been released, we'll be repurposing the AT dev blog to cover the development of our next game. We hope you’ll join us as we document all the mis-steps, mistakes and minor miracles of the creative process. Find it at wmgamedevblog.weebly.com or just click on the link. We’re looking forward to another creative conversation with you.

our team

ERIC HAMEL
A graduate of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, Eric continues to explore the crossover between the theatre arts and digital interactive storytelling. Before co-founding Worthing & Moncrieff, Eric began his game development career working on the Audio team at Mythic Entertainment.

MARC HARPIN
Marc studied writing at Rhode Island College before going on to complete a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rhode Island School of Design in 1990. He currently runs the design firm Rhumba, is a practicing playwright, and a founding member of the Boston-based Titanic Theatre Company. He is a co-founder of Worthing & Moncrieff.