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 expansion in the works
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Worthing and Moncrieff is excited to announce that there will be a free November 2018 update to its satirical strategy game Austen Translation. Our loyal players can look forward to wooing four new bachelors, attending four new social events and enjoying a selection of sassy wallpaper options. Plus hats! Did we mention hats? We'll be adding hats to the heroine customization process. Exact release date to be announced soon. 

a Halloween Surprise

Get your little grey cells in gear! Just in time for Halloween, we’ll be releasing a brand new puzzle for A Matter of Murder,  “Terms of Ensnarement,” to challenge your powers of deduction. So grab your magnifying glass and get out there! The game’s afoot!

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.

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