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Alpha Preview Update (June)

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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 pleased with how the composer Mike Janaka (who also did the game's menu ...

Tallys'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...

Author 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 2022-06-19 18:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Author 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...

Shepherds 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-gam...

Update 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 l...

Credits 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 h...

Alpha Preview Update (May)

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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 desert, everything... it's all so sublime! 🌬

Now that Tallys and ...

Suggestion 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 A...

Shepherds 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 d...

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, ...

Music 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 embo...

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...
  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 h...

Some 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 i...
  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? 😉 

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2022-04-28 08:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

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, but fairly frequently featured in the novels. I especially miss the Dra...