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.

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.

Austen Named to TIGA Shortlist

We couldn’t have been happier to learn that “Austen Translation” has been named a Finalist for this year’s TIGA Games Industry Awards. Our Jane Austen inspired satirical strategy game has been shortlisted in the Heritage category. Now in it’s seventh year, London-based TIGA “recognises excellence in games development, business and education and celebrates the achievements of both small and large games development studios.” Austen's sister game, “A Matter of Murder” was a Finalist in last year’s TIGA Award competition in the Puzzle Game category.

Austen is Headed to IndieCade!

What a month! The folks at IndieCade have invited us to show Austen Translation at their Santa Monica event. We’ll be part of the Night Games on Friday, October 12. We’re so proud to be in such good company and we look forward to seeing you all there! For more info, check out the IndieCade site here.

See you at BFIG 2018!

We’re excited and proud to announce that “Austen Translation will be featured in the 2018 Boston Festival of Independent Games Digital Showcase. W&M was fortunate to show a prototype of AT at last year's BFIG and we’re thrilled to be returning in the multi-player experience category. We look forward to seeing you all at this marquee event celebrating the vigor of the Boston Indie community.

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.