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Anonymous: What the ROs' dream wedding (or the Blest equivalent of that) be with MC? And who wouldn’t want to get married? I hope you’re having a great day!!
Aw, thank you so much, anon! And great question!
Blade - would want to get married. Would prefer an intimate private ceremony with very close friends and family only. Preferably in a secl...
2019-08-28 18:48:46 +0000 UTC View PostReminder that I won't be answering these questions until the 28th, as I'm out of town for a wedding.
Remember that NSFW and spoiler questions are totally allowed, and there are no limits to how many questions you ask!
To ask a question anonymously: visit this link https://shepherds-of-haven.tumblr.com/mail and ask your question, using #tellmeeverything so I know you're asking for ...
2019-08-26 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, short update for this week!
I finally got a lot of things off my plate that had been holding me back from working on ShoH: I repaired my laptop keyboard, which was lacking an "R" key, meaning I had to either type on my phone or type "without knowing how to wite pwopewly"; I rewrote and edited a large chunk of We Have Always Been Here and sent it off to be picked apart in agent hell again, and it feels like a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders; and I did ...
2019-08-21 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
You voted for it, and here it is! Trouble's official character card in the game!!!
Imagery of a lion and the sun may seem obvious, but why is he holding a golden apple and a scepter?... 👀 That, you'll have to find out!
(Also, he does have blue eyes with a ring of gold, not pure gold, but by the time I caught it, the artist was no longer able to alter the card lol!)
Thank you as always for your support! The poll for next month's art reveal is below!
2019-08-20 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhat art would you like to see next?
2019-08-20 18:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Trouble won the poll for commissioned art celebrating 1,000 followers on Tumblr - here's the sketch by @sketchyderps! This was really fun and I hope to commission some more art soon - you'll get another vote to decide the subject matter then! ❤ Thank you!
2019-08-16 00:55:31 +0000 UTC View PostI have all chapters rigorously planned and outlined for the game, except for two new ones (which resulted in the split between Lavinet and Mimir's chapters). Though I have a rough idea of the story for these two chapters nailed down, I find myself up in the air about the races that are involved with them. (In case you didn't know, most chapters of the game cover a different race or faction, like the Hunters in the Reach, the Mages in the Veiled Circle, the Merchants and Thieves Guilds, etc.) ...
2019-08-15 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostFinally, I've implemented a birthday system for the game, cleaned up some previous day off scenes that I wasn't happy with, and finally made some progress on Chapter 2!
It's not much, but it's something! As you probably know, Chapter 2 is split into two routes--Riel's route and Chase's route--which are...
2019-08-14 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Also, we hit 1000 followers on Tumblr, and 50 patrons on Patreon!
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you so much everyone for your support!
To celebrate, I'd like to commission a little art for ShoH, and I'm letting you decide what the art should be of! What would you like to see? And if yo...
2019-08-11 09:23:52 +0000 UTC View PostI made a timeline of the events of Shepherds of Haven, including birthdays, holidays, and story missions: you can track to the day what happens to the MC and what's going on in the world (and how much time elapses between events, what season they take place in, etc).
BEWARE: THERE ARE SPOILERS, SO PLEASE DO NOT CLICK IF YOU'D RATHER NOT KNOW THINGS LIKE THE 'END' DATE OF THE GAME.
Hi everyone, welcome to the second official month of this Patreon!
This summer has been crazy for me, so my online presence has been a bit scattered. For all of June I was taking the LSAT and then immediately flying to Asia for several weeks. For July I visited my partner's family for two weeks, then immediately flew to Canada to visit my family for two weeks. Now my partner's family is visiting (and we're hosting them), and as soon as they leave, we're taking a road trip with some frie...
2019-08-07 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Recently a question on Tumblr prompted me to create this graphic to explain how romances work in Shepherds of Haven:
My question for you comes in the "ending" phase of the game, where the story zooms out and there's an epilogue detailing what happens to everyone after the events of the game.
Assuming both your RO and MC live by the time of the epilogue (😅), for a hap...
2019-08-01 21:36:43 +0000 UTC View PostIt's that time of the month again--time to decide what this month's short story will focus on! I hope you enjoyed the last one; and don't forget that there's prompts you can submit (anonymously or not) if you feel like it, too! Check the "pin" tag on the left sidebar to see a master post of prompts!
Also, because Mimir is likely going to be taken out of the recruitment poll for the Shepherds, I'm going to take her out of the short story poll for now. I'm adding in Croelle, because we so...
2019-08-01 21:23:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe waning winter sun hung low over the cliffs of the Shield Peaks, dyeing the snow a dark and bloody red. Blade stepped carefully over these last scraps of dirty frost out of habit: there was no one following him, as far as he could tell, but all Khehi-Ket had been trained to step only on hard rock if they could help it, to avoid leaving tracks. And if the Inquisitors caught wind of his presence up on these harsh steppes, there was no telling what would happen.
He almost wished f...
2019-08-01 00:46:15 +0000 UTC View PostThank you everyone who participated in this month's Author Q&A! :) I've written my answers below the cut: standard questions are in the first section, spoilers are in the middle, and NSFW questions are at the bottom!
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Anonymous: Who was your main inspiration for Blade?
Answer: I think Blade is a mix of the awkwardnes...
2019-07-29 23:32:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe Author Q&A for July starts now! Thank you again everyone for your wonderful support and patronage! <3
By unlocking this reward, you've unlocked the ability to ask me any question you have about any of my projects--Shepherds of Haven or Apex Predators--whether they be spoilery, NSFW, or otherwise!
Comment with a question below or anonymously submit a question on 2019-07-28 23:03:10 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, here's a look at the roster for the missions in Shepherds of Haven! I tried hard to keep everyone's appearances even, regardless of how late or early they appear in the story. As you can also see, I'm still teetering about the new female RO, as who she is decides when she's get recruited and what missions she goes on. All of that will be decided later!
BEWARE: looking at this roster may result in some spoilers, as you see which characters are primarily foll...
2019-07-28 19:59:59 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, short update for this week:
I'm visiting my family out of country (in Calgary, Canada, mostly for my grandma, who just turned 93 last week!) so I haven't been able to work on the game at all. In fact, this is the first time I've even been able to get on my computer!
Despite that, I've been giving a lot of thought to the game (especially since this trip has been giving me time to play lots of new video games with my cousins), as well as to that new female RO I me...
2019-07-22 03:32:17 +0000 UTC View PostFor this month, I'm going to reveal to you guys Riel's original character art, as well as present the poll for next month's art/character card.
Riel's art actually matches everyone else's (the sketched portraits you can find in the ShoH thread on the COG forums); but I've kept it hidden from the world because looking at it gives me a sense of embarrassment, like looking at a bad yearbook photo from the sixth grade.
It's just so... anti to who Riel is...
But now y...
2019-07-20 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostSo it seems that the results of the poll are that Chase's ex--the manipulative, cool-headed trickster--should be female! What do you think her name should be? Think a Selina Kyle-type with dark hair cut like Lucy Liu's in that two-minute animated clip in Kill Bill.
Have a name suggestion of your own? You can write it in the comments below and people can vote for it by 'liking' your sug...
2019-07-15 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, here's the update for this week!
I haven't gotten much done on Chapter 2 where the alpha leaves off, but I have written ahead to some scenes. I've decided that one mission in the future is going to be an all-girls mission (not counting MC, of course, and dependent on if you've recruited the requisite Shepherds) and one mission is going to be an all-boys mission. I've never done that kind of dynamic between the characters before, so it'll be fun to see how Ayla, Lavinet, Tal...
2019-07-14 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
A personality quiz! Are you a Healer or a Battle-Mage, a Diviner or an Enchanter? Click the link to find out~ and feel free to share your result too!
Previous Shepherds of Haven quizzes can be found here! Enjoy!
It looks like Blade won the short story poll this month! I'm torn between going two ways with his story--would you like to see an excerpt from his early days before the Shepherds and his first encounter with an Endarkened (Trouble features heavily since he came in 2nd place, and MC is tangentially-mentioned), or would you like to see a romance-focused MC x Blade short with uhhh a medicine/healing theme? :>
2019-07-08 01:09:16 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy! Work on the game is commencing slowly but surely as I grapple with jet lag and getting back into the swing of things after my big trip! I'm also trying to balance working on the new Patreon short story that will come at the end of the month (my mistake being that I get overzealous and write way too much for a short story--it starts to become a chapter for a novel) and the writing of the game itself, as well as other work!
Because of all this, not too much has been added yet that ...
2019-07-07 19:40:44 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings! We arrive finally to the long-awaited release of the Shepherds of Haven Alpha Preview!
Some highlights of things that have been added since the public demo:
Wow, thank you so much everyone for your generosity and support! We reached the first goal of this Patreon in less than 12 hours! I'm blown away by how wonderful you all are! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
This means Author Q&As are now unlocked for everyone and will be taking place monthly around the 25th or 26th (or whichever day close to then is a Friday). This month's Q&A will take place on Friday the 26th; and remember that this is no-hol...
2019-07-02 17:15:47 +0000 UTC View PostWhich character would you like this month's short story to focus on? Feel free to add prompts or prompt numbers below, or submit them through Tumblr!
2019-07-01 16:33:13 +0000 UTC View PostHere's a list of over a hundred fiction prompts for deciding the month's short story/character short. Not only can you vote on which character (or characters) the story will be about, you can also choose a theme from this list (or suggest a custom one of your own)! Leave a comment on the current month's short story poll with the numbers corresponding to your desired prompts, or with a prompt of your own. And feel free to combine more than one if you like!
If you want to...
2019-07-01 16:27:37 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone, and welcome!
Today marks the first official day of this Patreon. I'd just like to say thank you so much for supporting; it means the absolute world to me!
As active work on this page didn't start until today, the poll posted below about Chase's ex will count as our first official game development poll! You can also find official art such as the game's cover art and map below, as well as the schedule this Patreon will be following every day fo...
2019-07-01 16:25:37 +0000 UTC View PostHello there! Here I'll be posting the tentative and projected schedule for updates and rewards here on this Patreon. Please keep in mind that these are not set in stone as I test things out in the beginning stages of this and work things out; I will update here accordingly as we iron out the kinks. Also, some goals (such as updating the alpha build) are heavily contingent on various factors, including the private testing phase and the overall success of this Patreon (these are marked with a (...
2019-05-31 09:55:55 +0000 UTC View Post