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.

OverHerd’s PAX debut

We're so excited to have debuted our brand-spanking-new pure audio game, OverHerd, at Bose’s ARcade at this year’s PAX East. Check out our game and five others developed for Bose Frames by indie devs at booth 21132. We want to thank Playcrafting and Bose for making this amazing opportunity possible.

If you want to experience OverHerd for yourself, a version is currently available free on the App Store. You will need a pair of Bose AR Frames, or an AR-enabled Bose QC headset to play.

W&M takes top honors

Being invited to participate in the recent Bose AR and Playcrafting Game Jam last month was an honor in itself. We heard earlier this week that the audio-only game we developed over the course of that event, OverHerd, has been selected as the leading entry. We are honored to have the efforts of our extended team (including a guest starring appearance by the talented Brian Jordan) recognized by Bose and Playcrafting. Check out the recap video below.

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.