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?

​In OverHerd you play an English nobleman in charge of an over-enthusiastic catapult unit. Your assignment? Demolish the wall of your enemy’s castle by firing livestock at it. The challenge? You have to do it in the dark of night using only sound to guide you. If you score three hits before sunrise, the enemy walls will be breached and your army will be able to  successfully assault the castle!
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. 
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​HRO: Adventures of a Humanoid Resources Officer is a branching narrative experience with sandbox puzzle-solving elements. You play the underappreciated Humanoid Resources Officer aboard the SpaceArmada flagship Endeavor — whose crew has a long history of questionable decision-making. When the ship is thrust into the middle of dramatic and universe-shaking trouble, can you harness the power of the bureaucracy to rein in their worst impulses and survive to the next episode?

Set Course for Playtesting

We’re excited to report that our newest venture — the sci-fi  themed adventure/sandbox puzzler “HRO: Adventures of a Humanoid Resources Officer” will soon be moving into closed play testing of the first prototype chapter. Watch this space for more information as this project moves into an exciting new phase of development!
“OverHerd” Discontinued
We’re saddened to announce that our audio-only game “OverHerd” was removed from retail outlets on July 15, 2020. While we’ve had tremendous fun developing and supporting this wildly different and inclusive gaming experience, the Bose audio technology the game is based upon has been discontinued, and our license to use that technology terminated. OverHerd was the winner of the 2019 Bose AR and Playcrafting Boston Game Jam and it debuted at the Bose AR-CADE Booth at Pax East in 2019.

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, and is a practicing playwright. He is a co-founder of Worthing & Moncrieff.

 


RYAN HAMEL
Ryan is an avid gamer and computer technician. He holds degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from UMASS Lowell.