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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 a...
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 ...
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 Mi...
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 t...
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 ...
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, cutetanu...
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--whic...
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 miss...
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...
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: ...
2022-06-30 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAlpha Preview Update (June)
Play the alpha here
Password: crabrangoon ⬅ ❗️
2022-06-26 01:36:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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 pl...
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 Zuzan...
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 ...
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 que...
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 t...
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 c...
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...
2022-06-01 22:06:14 +0000 UTC View PostAlpha Preview Update (May)
Play the alpha here
Password: crabrangoon ⬅ ❗️
2022-05-31 02:14:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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 dese...
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...
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 ma...
2022-05-10 20:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostSmall 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...
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 ...
2022-05-02 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostCommissioned 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... 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...
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 z... 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
Password: crabrangoon ⬅ ❗️
Author 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, b...
2022-04-19 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
