Hi everybody, welcome to August! 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 by Hosted Games (over usernames like hottie69420), but you can send in whatever you're most comfortable with! Thank you so much for your support and I hope you have a great start to your week!
2021-08-01 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post[Content warning: fairly intense horror, canon-typical violence, some gore, adult language.]
Part I: The Song Remains the Same
Part III: For Everything There is a Season
Stress...
2021-07-31 00:39:50 +0000 UTC View PostHello! Long time no talk, it feels like!
A little (or not so little) update for you today! It's hard to believe that my novel launched just three weeks ago, it's been a flurry of activity for me ever since then: I've been running around doing interviews, organizing a book signing, and, of course, I went out of town for a week to travel out of state and attend my best friend's wedding! (It was awesome!)
In between all of that, I managed to start Chapter 7 of the alpha build, ...
2021-07-29 05:32:45 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a while, but hopefully the long wait is made up for with this heart-stopping rendition of Chase! I love everything about this... his hair... his eyes... the gold! I'm crying in the club and that's exactly how Chase would want it!
If you're new to this, we are redoing the character cards for each character based on your votes! You can find the original character cards here, and ...
2021-07-21 00:02:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I have a whole scenario plotted out for this scene. They are waiting for their Uber. Halek thinks it would be faster to walk. They are probably going to go to late brunch in the next town over and "they will definitely drop him off at a library on the way, don't worry, Riel." Blade is slouching because he doesn't want to be here but they showed up on his doorstep and wouldn't stop yelling until he opened the door and now he is Sulking. They are about to get day-drunk on ...
2021-07-10 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostHi everybody, if you choose a certain path in Chapter 6, you get rewarded with an artifact in Chapter 7: I just haven't decided what to name that artifact yet! It's pretty important, but I'm trying to avoid spoilers as much as possible right now... so don't read the names below or any further if you don't want to risk being spoiled!
[Short context if you need it: Angant Hainn gives you this something if you've gotten his or the Elder Council's approval.]
... 2021-07-01 22:19:33 +0000 UTC View PostHi everybody, 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 by Hosted Games (over usernames like hottie69420), but you can send in whatever you're most comfortable with! Thank you so much for your support and I hope you have a great weekend!
2021-07-01 22:07:17 +0000 UTC View Post[Content warning: discussions of pregnancy and complications with pregnancy, including possible miscarriage, discussions of infidelity and cheating, some fantasy violence and death, mild horror elements, adult language and cursing.]
[Spoiler alert: a minor plot point from the upcoming {not yet written} Chapter 7 is briefly mentioned in this short story. I am not actually sure if I will be using this plot point in the game, making the spoiler potentially non-cano...
2021-07-01 03:23:54 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, as I'm sure you're all aware of by now (since I keep talking about it lol I'm so sorry)--my debut novel, WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE, is out next Tuesday on July 6th!
July is going to be a pretty busy month for me in general:
EVERYONE. Everyone. I worked so hard... 😭 and I did it! I kept my promise! Chapter 6 is done!!!
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So we've been having a spirited discussion on Blade's hair over on Tumblr--for context--
"Dark Blade has a buzzcut" "Ooh I like that!"
"Please give him a haircut. Lavinet can give it to him." "Here's all the reasons why...
2021-06-19 21:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHeya! for the June author Q&A #tellmeeverything. For all the ros and side characters : whos an early bird, who could sleep forever, who wakes up but falls back asleep, who wakes up at a decent hour?
Hi, this is actually already answered here! I'm just going to copy-paste and add Briony, Halek, Croelle, Prihine, ...
2021-06-17 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi there, have a Shery!
I was working on an aesthetic quiz for ShoH MCs and characters, but making quizzes is surprisingly hard! 🤔 So, in the meantime, have this Shery I commissioned from the artist Uikoui just because I wanted a Shery commission... and have some others that I commissioned for the 2021-06-17 00:37:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hi everybody, we're kicking off our monthly Q&A early this month!
As I mentioned before, I'll be experimenting with the timing of this Q&A to more evenly distribute my workload, which tends to pile riiiight at the end of the month. Hence, Q&As have moved to the middle of the month! Feels kind of weird, right?? But we'll get used to it!
If you know the drill, fire away! Given the flood of questions I received in the last few months, I've gone back to only opening the in...
2021-06-15 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostHi everybody, I've been talking about this for a little while, and today, it's finally here! It's exactly one month until the release of my debut novel, WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE!
To celebrate, I'm hosting a give-away until June 27th (or while supplies last); if you preorder a copy of WHABH, I'll send you a swag pack as thanks! And this offer is open worldwide....
2021-06-06 22:26:29 +0000 UTC View PostHi everybody, 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 by Hosted Games (over usernames like hottie69420), 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 lovely start to your week!
2021-06-01 22:11:19 +0000 UTC View PostHi everybody, welcome to the first day of June! I hope your month gets off to a great start and you stay cool, hydrated, and happy! 🌞
Just a small look forward at this month--obviously I updated the alpha the day before yesterday, and I will continue to make good on my oath to abstain from bubble tea until I finish Chapter 7 this month LOL. Some small things to take note of for this month:
Content warning: brief discussion of virginity, description of bleeding/blood, discussion of nightmares and implied captivity, adult language and cursing.
Part I: The Song Remains the Same
There weren’t a lot of things that Ayla disliked more than silence.
In Jalis, things had never been silent, even when she was in the desert night alone. There had always been the whirring and rustling of things in the dark, the slither and run of creatur...
2021-05-31 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, here's the alpha preview update for this month!!! I'm very excited for you to see some of the new content!
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Heya, could we have one fluffy fact for all the ladys please 🙏 thank you
Shery: no one knows this, but Shery has a very soft pink blanket that she loves to sleep with--it makes her feel comfortable and safe and she loves it! After several years, it becomes very worn despite her best efforts... but after MC starts sleeping in her bed or leaving her shirts behind, Shery doesn't need it anymore. It is, however, stored in a box on the shelf of her closet ...
2021-05-28 23:54:39 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, Characters and ROs won the last commissioned art poll, so let's decide which character we should focus on for this round's commission!
Remember, Ayla, Red, Trouble, Blade, and Chase have all won the past rounds, and their decided mediums were character reference sheets! After this poll, we will vote on the medium/format/style of the piece--but first we want to pick the character of the piece itself!
Who do you want to be the subject of our next commis...
2021-05-27 20:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHi everybody, welcome to your last week in May!
If you know the drill, fire away! Given the flood of questions I received in the last few months, I'm going to go back to only opening the inbox for Q&A questions for one day rather than two. I will gauge the number of questions received then and adjust accordingly!
The deadline for this month's questions is tomorrow, Wednesday, May 26th at 12 PM MST. I will not save or answer any questions sent after the deadlin...
2021-05-25 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHi everybody, time is really flying! I didn't even realize that it's already the last week of May 😭 What the heck!
Things have been very busy with me on a personal level, but it's all good stuff. I celebrated my best friend's bachelorette, planned some time off this summer to attend various weddings and see the country a bit, and took some time to relax and just play games for a week or so. I started medication for my recent autoimmune/thyroid problem, and though this week is packed ...
2021-05-25 02:12:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everybody, I've done my best to show you how the Shepherds' compound looks in my head!!! I hope this helps you envision the layout of their headquarters better! Of course, when you live in the remains of a magical tower, things tend to shift around... but this is the most common way most Shepherds perceive the tower when they first get there! New floors also unlock the more recruits join, which can be an interesting architectural surprise... for now, though, many of the main characters and...
2021-05-10 22:47:50 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, it looks like serialized short stories won the last poll regarding our future short stories! That's not to say we won't do the other options that didn't win sometime later, but this gives me a concrete direction to head in for now!
One thing I forgot to mention last time is that these serialized short stories will be slightly tricky in that they obviously take place during the ga...
2021-05-08 02:11:42 +0000 UTC View PostHello there! 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:
Hi everybody, I hope you enjoyed Riel's short story for April (DAMN it I should have titled it Your Lie in April... because there's a lot of lying in it...never mind)!
I just wanted to pop in and ask you all something! Riel's story was something like the 22nd short story we've done for this Patreon, woo-hoo! We are about halfway through doing a "second round" of the major characters, but the problem is, I don't think I have enough material for some of them to do a second round!...
2021-05-01 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHi everybody, welcome to May!
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 by Hosted Games (over usernames like hottie69420), 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 lovely start to your May!
2021-05-01 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post[CONTENT WARNING: off-screen torture and violence, mentions of vomiting, gay characters concealing their gayness from their parents, dark characters, rich people being rich.]
Spoilery note: I wrote Riel as way more apeshit in the last scene, but toned it down out of cowardice. This is, of course, him on the path to being present-day Riel, so he might seem very different from the Riel you now know.
Also, I highly recommend reading Rie...
2021-04-29 20:21:13 +0000 UTC View Post