WORTHING & MONCRIEFF

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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. The title is expected to release in the Fall of 2017.

news

“Austen Translation” to Debut at BFIG ’17

We're very proud to announce that “Austen Translation” will be featured in the digital showcase of the 2017 Boston Festival of Independent Games (BFIG). The festival will take place on September 23, 2017 at MIT in Cambridge, MA. We hope you get a chance to come out to the show to see us and play the new game.

The Boston Festival of Indie Games celebrates independent game development in New England and beyond. Their goal is to create an inclusive environment for everybody who enjoys and appreciates games in whatever shape or form.

More info on the festival can be found at bostonfig.com.

development blog

Our "Austen Translation" development blog is your chance to peek behind the curtain and see what we're thinking about and working on right now. Click here to join the conversation.

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.