It's just a few hours before the end of September for me, so I technically made it on time!
Remember the password: activatealpha ! (No punctuation or spaces!)
Hello everybody! It's my pleasure to release to you the demo that you picked in a poll earlier this month: a college AU of the Shepherds of Haven universe!
Again, the password is: needsabettertitle
And it does: "Haven University" makes me think of "Monsters University"--but that's b...
2020-09-30 00:59:17 +0000 UTC View Post
To make up for the lack of short story this month, have some ongoing mockups of potential cover art for the game so far! 👀 Chase, Blade, and Red's tarot cards are underway, and I will speak to our usual artist about making a Trouble reference sheet as well. When the cover is farther along I'll start taking suggestions for a cover font to use for the Shepherds of Haven logo/text! 😊
2020-09-28 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostQuestion: Hey Lena! If you wouldn't mind telling us the ROs (plus Chandry, Croelle and Halek's) favorite meal/food and baked good, that would be lovely uwu. I hope you're enjoying yourself!!
Hi Jazz, thank you so much! This has actually been answered here (and 2020-09-28 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, it's time for the author Q&A for the month! :) (I'm writing this from the past (spOOOoky) and am still currently on vacation, though!) I will answer the first 20 questions sent in before the deadline, and any questions after the first 20 will be saved and answered in next month's Q&A! ❤
The deadline for this month will be Saturday, 9/26 at 11 PM MST. I will not save or answer any questions sent after the deadline.
For those of you who d...
2020-09-25 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, I know I said I'd post this on the 20th at our usual time, but one of the artists who won our poll last time just told me she's now available and can take on two character cards at once!
So here's our status:
Hi everyone! If you've read this post, you'll know I'm planning to take a much needed break next week and going off into the wilderness for a bit!
Typically, my big things to meet every month are:
Hi everyone, I hope your September is going well! I can't believe we're already almost to October--one of my favorite months! It feels like just yesterday that I was writing that spooky Croelle story for October 2019! *sweats*
I have a lot of updates to get through this time!
Trouble won the commissioned art poll, so now we have to vote on what style commission we want him to be portrayed in! Please see here for references of all the options below!
Vote on how you would like to see Trouble portrayed!
2020-09-11 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHello! For your puzzling pleasure, I've made four different puzzles to test your ShoH knowledge and skills! And if you solve any one of them, you can earn a special prize! 👀 (A special role on Discord!)
So we voted on who would appear on a hypothetical version of the cover art here. Now let's vote on the subject matter, or what you think those characters should be doing!
2020-09-10 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys; for no particular reason at all, which are you more interested in at the moment? Thank you! 😉
2020-09-08 19:50:33 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, I hope you're having a great start to your September, and if you're in the US, I hope you had a fun three-day weekend!
I have made a little progress on Chapter 5 of ShoH; the beginning of the month tends to be designated for "other work" for me, whereas the latter half of the month is for ShoH, so I haven't done too much--also because, as always, coding fight sequences and battles can be a huge pain in the butt to do well! They're actually my least favorite things to do whe...
2020-09-08 19:36:58 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, due to certain special circumstances, there will now be a password on the Shepherds of Haven alpha build! You will only run into it if you start the game from the beginning, and it will not affect your current saves.
The password is:
Please remember this when playing the alpha. There are no spaces or capital letters in the password. I may change the password every few months; if you ever want to find it here on P...
2020-09-02 04:20:48 +0000 UTC View PostI hope you enjoyed that dark look into Blade's past! Which character should we cover for this month's short story?
2020-09-02 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWe're getting closer and closer to Lavinet's chapter... let's decide on a name for a character in her storyline, a spurned suitor who acts like an absolute dickhead to MC. (I actually think naming mean characters is even more fun than naming the nice ones.) What do you think? Of course he's a nobleman and a capable fencer!
2020-09-02 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
EVERYBODY. EVERYBODY LOOK AT HOW BEAUTIFUL THIS IS.
On the left is present-day Shepherd Blade, and on the right is how he looked before joining the Shepherds! Look at his hair! 😭 His sword! I love him so much!
Thank you for your patience and support, and for voting and deciding on this art commission, as always! Don't forget to vote on the next commission here, and remember you can u...
2020-09-01 21:49:53 +0000 UTC View PostIf 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 September! <3
2020-09-01 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIn a purely hypothetical world... say we were to create the Shepherds of Haven cover art together! For survey purposes only, I'm curious... who would you want to see on it? What would they be doing?
Imagine scrolling through the app store. You see the cover art to a Hosted Game. Who's on it? Multiple options allowed!
(Examples of HG/COG cover art below if you want to see any.)
2020-09-01 00:09:01 +0000 UTC
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[CONTENT WARNING: violence, descriptions of death, mentions of physical child abuse by a parental figure.]
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The day the Autarch’s soldiers arrive, Junoth knows something terrible is about to happen.
He straightens from his fighting stance, forcing his older brother, Tor, to snap his incoming blow back and twist to keep from hurting him. The wooden practice sword goes flying out of his hand, and he...
2020-08-31 23:29:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello, since Characters and ROs won the last commissioned art poll, let's decide which character we should focus on for this round's commission!
Remember, Ayla, Red, and Blade have all won the past rounds, and their decided mediums were character reference sheets! (Incidentally, the artist is working on Blade's and should be finishing up soon, at least in a few weeks!) After this poll, we will vote on the medium/format/style of the piece!
Who do you want to be the subject of our n...
2020-08-28 20:07:30 +0000 UTC View PostHello, here's more of Chapter 5 for you! I'm sorry to end it at such a cliffhanger, but if I want to make my deadlines for this month, I had to stop there! I'm raring to write more, though, so I will hopefully update again next week or the week after that!
Things included in this update:
Romanced!Ros reactions to an MC who refuses to tell anyone when they are injured in battle and instead just continues to fight.
Frustration, this would cause a lot of arguments:
Blade
Trouble
Briony
Ayla
Worry and a lot of fussing:
Shery
Lavinet
Ultimatums: this is a deal breaker because it shows MC doesn't care about themselves long enough to maintain a relation...
2020-08-26 22:58:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, it's time for the author Q&A for the month! :) I will answer the first 20 questions sent in before the deadline! Any questions after the first 20 will be saved and answered in next month's Q&A! ❤ However, please keep in mind that we have a lot of questions left over from last month (15), so I will only be opening up for questions for one day rather than two this time!
The deadline for this month will be Wednesday, 8/26 at 12 PM MST.&nb...
2020-08-25 18:47:46 +0000 UTC View PostHi there, thanks for voting in the last poll regarding this character's gender! Xe will be non-binary, so let's decide xer name as well!
What do you think the thief's name should be? This character is mysterious, friendly but also passive-aggressively hostile, nonchalant, and snarky!
2020-08-25 18:40:50 +0000 UTC View PostI'm in the middle of writing this sequence as we speak (I'm having so much fun with this chapter!) and I realized I hadn't given much thought to the liaison the gang meets in Heth Macoll--the thief in the Heth Macoll Thieves Guild who helps MC get into the arena. So I'm opening it up to a super quick flash poll! Let's decide gender first! Who and what should this thief be? (Name poll to follow in 16 hours)
2020-08-25 02:27:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! If you have the time and inclination and have played the alpha build past Chapter 3, please feel free to record your first playthrough data via this feedback form! Thank you as always and I'll have more updates for you soon!
2020-08-20 22:01:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! So it seems Chase won the poll to remake his character card!
I've assembled a sample of artists I'm fairly sure are still open for commissions and who do tarot card art commissions specifically.
I'm only one person and I'm sure I've missed a lot of fabulous artists (I really only looked on Tumblr), ...
2020-08-17 21:15:55 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, I hope your August is going well!
I haven't done any updates regard the game yet, as I took the first week of August off to recover from the burnout of last month! And then this past week I've been catching up on the work I've had to delay or miss since taking time off to work on my novel edits!
We've picked out samples for my novel cover art and I will hopefully be sharing those here whenever I get the greenlight from my editor! Now I'm having to go through the horro...
2020-08-17 21:09:00 +0000 UTC View PostShepherds of Haven, as many of you know, has had a long journey to get to where it is today. Originally it started off as novels: I think there are some 20+ novels on my hard drive for it, along with countless short stories.
But then I started to branch out into other mediums. First it was (very briefly and horribly) a manga. Then I wanted to try my hand at game-making.
Before I landed o...
2020-08-13 00:36:06 +0000 UTC View Post