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Commissioned Art Poll #9
Hi there! I hope you enjoyed Caine's character sheet... isn't he so cute?! 🥺
And now we get to do the whole thing over again! ❤️ If you're new to this, continually voting on art commissions for the game is a special reward that Patrons have unlocked here on this Patreon! Thank you so much again for your support: we couldn't be creating these amazing pieces without you!!! 🎉
This series of polls moves in three stages or rounds, culminating in the fin...
2022-07-24 19:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Answers (July)
General
What is the thing that they all need to hear from a romanced mc? Something like “I feel safe with you” or “you’re my home” etc… thanks !
Blade: "You make me feel safe"
Trouble: "You're my family"
Tallys: "I want to be with you forever"
Shery: "There's no one else for me but you"/"You're the most beautiful person in the world to me"
Riel: "I don't need anything from you except your love"
Chase: "I trust you"...
2022-07-21 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostMimir's Character Card (New)
Mimir's here!!! And she looks INCREDIBLE!!! 🔮
I absolutely LOVE the vibes that our card artist Mafuriah captured for Mimir! She understood Mimir's character and themes so well and incorporated absolutely stunning motifs using reflections, mirrors, fragments, splintered images, and ghosts (is the circle surrounding Mimir a mirror or another crystal ball? Is the card itself yet another fractured reflection, like the one she holds in her hands?? 🤯), and the colors she used for Mimir'...
2022-07-20 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Q&A (July)
Hi everyone, it's time for July's Author Q&A!
If you know the drill, fire away! I'm a little behind on my work schedule for this month and have a large backlog of older questions as well, so for this month only, the ask window for this Q&A will be open for 12 hours, so make sure to get your questions in before the deadline, which will be later today on Tuesday, July 19th, at 9 PM (MST). I will not save or answer any questions sent after the dead...
2022-07-19 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostIncomplete Routes Guide (July Goody)
Hi everybody, my original plans for July's goody fell through, so instead, I came up with something I think we all sorely needed: a Google Sheet detailing what routes of the alpha build are incomplete or unavailable due to not yet being written, how to avoid them, and what stat checks they involve, if relevant! This guide obviously includes massi...
2022-07-19 01:13:54 +0000 UTC View PostCommissioned Art #9 - Caine's Character Sheet
Here he is, our collective son!!! I couldn't figure out a secondary outfit for him (he's 12, does he really have that many different clothes that are worth showing off?) so instead I opted to have Dog (or Good Boy, whichever you prefer) depicted alongside him! Aren't they so precious? 🥺 Our character sheet artist, cutetanuki-chan, always blows me away with how she illustrates these! And now Caine gets to join the ranks of all of the other Shepherds you've voted to have sheets created for! ...
2022-07-10 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostMusic Poll #8
Hi everyone, I hope you're having a great start to your July! ☀️⛱🍉🎆 We went out of town on a big summer roadtrip, so I'm working on the road this month! Hopefully you guys enjoyed our latest music piece--Chase's theme--which I definitely listened to while once or twice during the drive! 😌 It's definitely a bit more modern than the other ShoH music we've created, but I figure whatever sui...
2022-07-05 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post________ De Vespe (Name Poll, Continued)
Hi everybody, last time I had a name poll for the new character about to make her first appearance in Chapter 9, which is imminently on the horizon as we draw Chapter 8 to a close! You can read more about that character here if you missed it; in short, she's the Autarch's new Court Mage, ambitious, lovely, and unmatched in her slyness, cruelty, ruthlessness, and hunger for power. The last poll put t...
2022-07-01 22:19:05 +0000 UTC View PostCredits List (July)
Hi everyone! You know the drill! If you haven't done so already, please message me or comment below if you'd like to have your name added to the Shepherds of Haven credits! 😃 Names like John S. or John Smith are preferred (over usernames like hottie69_420), but you can send in whatever you're most comfortable with! Thank you so much for your support, and I hope you're having a great start to your July! Stay cool and hydrated out there! ☀️
2022-07-01 22:12:33 +0000 UTC View PostSister (Mimir's Story - Part I)
[Author's note: My brain is pretty fried from the huge alpha build update this month, so I had to split this story up into two parts: Part II will be posted next month! 💀 And for now, I'm placing Some Kind of Virus on hiatus while I work through my writer's block on that: I know exactly what's going to happen for that story and how, but I don't currently have the motivation or interest to actually write it! Letting it rest will let me work...
2022-06-30 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAlpha Preview Update (June)
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Chase's Theme (Music)
Hi everyone, you voted to have Chase be the next character to have a theme song made for him, and your suggestions were total bangers!
It was a bit difficult to merge all of Chase's different vibes together into one song--jazzy, poppy, funky, piratey, mischievous, slinky--into one cohesive looping theme, but I'm very pleased with how the composer Mike Janaka (who also did the game's menu theme song h...
2022-06-25 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTallys's Character Card (New)
SHE'S HERE
MY FOREST QUEEN 🧝🏼♀️
This painting doth please me very much... She looks so... Tallys! 💚🤎 So regal and dignified and quietly fierce! I love the rougher brush strokes that the artist (our resident card artist Zuzanna) chose for her, as they denote the naturalism and blending into the natural world that Tallys is known for, and the lighting and colors are just incredible. I love...
2022-06-20 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Answers (June)
General
How did Red end up at the Circle? Were his parents worried about risks tied to him attending? it just seems like a big step from ‘teach our kids a few spells in secret’ to ‘let’s send our son to this mage academy at great risk to his life’
Red's family was always pretty subversive (he comes from a long line of scholars who'd go against the status quo for the sake of preserving or pursuing knowledge), but ...
2022-06-19 18:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Q&A (June)
Hi there, it's time for June's Author Q&A!
If you know the drill, fire away! The ask window for this Q&A will be open for 24 hours, so make sure to get your questions in before the deadline, which will be Thursday, April 16th, at 12:00 PM (MST). I will not save or answer any questions sent after the deadline! As usual, I will be answering a mix of overflow questions from previous months as well as new questions sent in this month!
If you a...
2022-06-15 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostShepherds Compound Blueprints (Part 2) (June Goody)
Hi everybody, last May I posted blueprints of the Shepherds compound that I had developed from my own sketches! Well, I never expected that those blueprints would ever be used except by interested readers as supplementary material to the game... But now that there are avenues to actually view maps in-game, I had them altered and customized further to fit the style and visual aesthetic of Shepherds even...
2022-06-10 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate and Name Poll
Hi everybody, it feels like it's been a while since I last gave you an official update, even though it's only been, like... three weeks? 😂 I hope you're all doing very well and enjoying the start of your summer! (I never know when spring, summer, or fall actually starts in other places... In Arizona, it feels like spring comes around Valentine's Day (or even earlier) and persists with very lovely weather until the end of May, which is when it starts to get a bit hotter here and school lets...
2022-06-02 08:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostCredits List (June)
Hi everyone! You know the drill! If you haven't done so already, please message me or comment below if you'd like to have your name added to the Shepherds of Haven credits! 😃 Names like John S. or John Smith are preferred (over usernames like hottie69_420), but you can send in whatever you're most comfortable with! Thank you so much for your support, and I hope you're having a great start to your June! Stay hydrated out there! ☀️
2022-06-01 22:06:14 +0000 UTC View PostAlpha Preview Update (May)
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Ayla's Character Card (New)
The new set of character cards is complete! Ayla's character card is here, and Tallys's will be revealed next month! 🦅 Doesn't she look amazing? I love the colors that the artist (our resident card creator Zuzanna) used for her background, and how powerful and confident she looks! 🤩 The color palette, the wind, the desert, everything... it's all so sublime! 🌬
Now that Tallys and Ayla are done, that only leaves four main characters whose cards we need to remake: Shery, Riel, Lav...
2022-05-20 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSuggestion Box: Play and Theater Troupe Names
Hi everyone, I enjoyed our last suggestion box and all of your incredible ideas so much that I decided to do another one! As you might know, Chapter 8 is most likely going to be the chapter where we finally get to go to the Ascension Festival, since I decided to move it from Chapter 7! And during the Ascension Festival, MC and their chosen festival partner may stumble across a play with eerie similar...
2022-05-16 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostShepherds of Haven Cover Art (May Goody)
Hi everybody, here's a surprise for you: new cover/menu art for the Twine port of Shepherds of Haven!
This will be the first thing players see when they first open up the game: I'm hoping to add our commissioned music, a little animation, and obviously the main menu buttons to this image to create the game's main startup screen! Isn't it beautiful? 😍 It's so lush and full of detail--I think the artist, Angela Wang 2022-05-10 20:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Small Update: May Roadmap
Hi everybody, partly due to a family emergency, my family and I will be out of the country from May 6th-May 17th with limited Internet access! Due to this, I am going to have to reduce my workload this month. So for this month only, there will be no Q&A this month! I will probably (currently a 50/50 chance) not be able to get the monthly short story done, as well, since I want to prioritize updating the alpha build with more content for Chapter 7: so I might be a...
2022-05-02 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMusic Poll #7 - Chase's Theme Song
Hi everybody, Chase won the last music poll to determine whose character theme song we should make next! So now I'm opening up this post for you to leave any suggestions you may have for our composer Irene Chan when she starts working on Chase's theme song next!
Character theme songs strive to embody the characters they represent! For example, 2022-05-02 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Commissioned Art Poll #8 - Medium
Hi everyone! If you're new to this, voting on an art commission for the game is a reward that Patrons have unlocked on this Patreon! ❤️
How it works:
- First we vote on the subject of the art piece. This round's winner: Characters and ROs.
- Then we vote on specific details of the art piece. If Characters and ROs won, we vote on which character we want to focus on, or if Settings won, we vote on the location we want to see. ... 2022-05-02 02:00:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Credits List (May)
Hi everyone! You know the drill! If you haven't done so already, please message me or comment below if you'd like to have your name added to the Shepherds of Haven credits! 😃 Names like John S. or John Smith are preferred (over usernames like hottie69_420), but you can send in whatever you're most comfortable with! Thank you so much for your support, and I hope you're having a great start to your month!
2022-05-02 01:56:04 +0000 UTC View PostSome Kind of Virus (AU Story - Part 3)
- The same content warnings as always apply: in-depth discussions of viruses, infection, and disease, sometimes graphic descriptions of violence, blood, and death, horror and suspenseful situations, and all things common to the zombie genre are within!
- Another very long entry! This story is so fun to write, but my biggest struggle is giving each character enough time in the spotlight, si... 2022-05-01 02:04:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Alpha Preview Update (April)
ET VOILA! An update for Chapter 7 is here... a little flirtation with Red, a little murder... what more could you ask for? 😉
Play the alpha here
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<... 2022-04-28 08:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Answers (April)
General
Are there any aspects of Blest or any of your characters that you wanted to include but couldn’t find a way to fit into the story?
A lot! In the novel version of Blest, the Castigation didn't happen, and a lot of the species who are "extinct" in the game were not only alive and well, but fairly frequently featured in the novels. I especially miss the Drakes and the Woken animals, like giant talking wolves and winged panther kings! Sadly, having them sh...
2022-04-19 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post