Somehow it's already May! π₯Ή You know what time it is: 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 hope you're having a great start to your month!
2025-05-01 21:51:39 +0000 UTC View PostPassword: rain_or_twine
Greetings! Et voila, here's some concept art of what Blade's room might look like... The door on the far back wall is the door that leads in
Greetings! Et voila, here's some concept art of what Blade's room might look like... The door on the far back wall is the door that leads into his commander office (or technically, the flow is that the back of his commander office leads into this room), the door beside that leads into his (surprisingly large) private bathroom, and there there's a s...
2025-04-05 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Good news everybody, the artist came through on Chase's room concept art! πππββ¬ I absolutely love this room. The dizzying magpie's nest o
Good news everybody, the artist came through on Chase's room concept art! πππββ¬
I absolutely love this room. The dizzying magpie's nest of Chase's hoarded contraband and stolen treasure... The little character details the artist took the time to embed throughout the room! The footprints on his desk and windowsill say it...
2025-04-04 21:41:34 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings, and welcome to April! I always forget that spring doesn't technically start for other people until like mid-March... here in the desert, it pretty much started in December π I hope you're all having a fantastic kick-off to the season!
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 usern...
2025-04-01 18:38:11 +0000 UTC View PostNo one try to use this story to pin a calendar to my ramblings. At this point "canonical timeline" is as elusive to me as the workings of quantum entanglement, so please don't try to put true dates to any of this... Just go by vibes and the references to weather and in-game main events, and we'll carry on without looking too closely!!
Also, I couldn't resist having a bit of fun by sneaking in some romance tidbits in this part. Obviously I had to start using the name "Robyn" to refer to ...
2025-04-01 03:54:00 +0000 UTC View PostHi, everybody! Coming in at the eleventh hour is the latest update to the alpha build, featuring a mess of bug fixes, a new Red interlude, and the rest of Chapter 8's conversion to Twine!
Password: bread_and_twine
Hi everybody, I hope you've been enjoying the Twine build so far! My anxious mind was grappling with dread all weekend that the whole thing would be riddled with bugs and thus unplayable and deflating, but I was extremely grateful to come back after the weekend to find only the kindest of messages and encouragement from you all--I can't tell you how much I appreciate your enthusiasm over the new build! Porting over 1 million words into a new code syntax was bound to create weird little hard-t...
2025-03-05 00:52:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Per your votes, this new emoji has now been added to the Discord server! :) (And yes, I know it's March, but this would have been February's goody if it'd been done on time!) Chase's room should be coming this month!
His face is so cute when it's haunted by disgust β€οΈ Which character do you think most elicits this reaction out of him lol?
2025-03-04 23:54:38 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, here's your monthly opportunity to get your name added to the game's list of credits! Now that the Twine build is out, you can see exactly how it will look in the final version of the game! :)
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 ...
2025-03-04 23:46:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt's here.
The Twine version of Shepherds of Haven is finally ready for you to play!
I strongly encourage you all to read the devlog I posted on itch.io, which outlines all of the technical details, known iss...
2025-02-28 21:14:08 +0000 UTC View PostOkay everyone, it looks like Blade won the first part of the emoji flash poll, so now's the time to pick an expression for him! Leave a comment (or multiple) below listing an expression from one of these templates, and leave a "like" as a vote for any comments that you support! This will end by 12 PM MST tomorrow, so get those suggestions in fast!
2025-02-23 18:07:00 +0000 UTC
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Hi everybody, I hope you're all doing well as the advent of spring approaches! It's been very up and down over here... π₯Ή
After some setbacks, I think I'm in a good place with the Twine build... I just need to implement some music, bugtest the game on desktop (mainly to make sure character stats like Trouble's don't max out too fast, but also to catch any lingering pests that may have e...
2025-02-21 22:21:38 +0000 UTC View PostHello, everyone! Lena here, writing to you from the deep recesses of my Twine Port Cave! First off, I wanted to thank you all for your incredibly kind messages of support and encouragement, and your continued patience as I get everything up and running on such short notice. π I haven't had time to reply to you all individually, but I just wanted to take a moment to say that your messages and comments really bolstered me during a time when it would have been easy to feel overwhelmed and str...
2025-02-04 20:31:58 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, Lena visiting you from my monastic cell to remind you to send in your name if you'd like to be added to the game's credits! Now I can freely talk about how the credits will be viewable from the game's startup screen every time the game is booted up, as well as at the end of the game's campaign in a cinematic closer! :D
If you haven't done so already, please message me or comment below if you'd like to have your name added to the S...
2025-02-04 18:28:41 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, so let's start with the good news: I'm no longer shadowbanned on Tumblr! π
The bad news: for anyone who hasn't heard by now, the website Dashingdon is shutting down at the end of this month, just two weeks from today. This means all games currently hosted on Dashingdon's servers will be permanently deleted, unless someone (ideally their authors) migrates them elsewhere. 2025-01-17 01:07:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Thus begins our next prospective series, now that the weapon codexes are over, illustrated by the absolutely fabulous artist densukii! It t
Thus begins our next prospective series, now that the weapon codexes are over, illustrated by the absolutely fabulous artist densukii!
It turns out I'm absolutely rabid for room cutaways... there's something about them that I just find so utterly charming! I think it's because they can be replete with such character details and touches of pers...
2025-01-10 21:18:30 +0000 UTC View PostCroelle won the character art poll! Finally, the Murder Lad gets his chance in the spotlight... π€ Croelle, how do you feel about being beat by Chandr--
Time to vote on what form this Croelle art commission will take on!
2025-01-10 21:04:57 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! For some reason, it seems that my blog has been shadowbanned on Tumblr... π₯Ή From poking around online, this seems to be a common thing that's been happening to legitimate blogs for a while now, apparently due to technical issues on Tumblr's end, but I could have gone a while without knowing what had happened if a perspicacious follower didn't catch it and message me right away! Anyway, I'm writing this here to let you all know that due to the shadowban, I'm currently unable...
2025-01-06 04:50:04 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, Happy New Year! It's always an exciting yet faintly queasy time when you have to remember to change the date in your head, isn't it?...
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 mu...
2025-01-01 18:41:12 +0000 UTC View PostHello, everyone! A short introduction to this series: I was suddenly struck with the inspiration to write little epistolary/"multimedia" vignettes from various groups connected to the Shepherds, observing the goings-on of the game from its fringes. I thought it would be fun to explore what people like members of a fanclub, a tavern keeper, a new recruit, a student at the Mage Circle, a gossip journalist, an Inquisitor, or the Order's HR department would make of the main characters and events ...
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2024-12-23 00:54:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, here it is, folks, the last of our legendary weapon concept art and a conclusion to our weapon series of codex entries--at least for now! Finishing off the batch comes Whisper and Requiem, the only items that MC can canonically duel-wield in the game! Between these, the Warpwood Striker, the Thunderer, and Clarion, it's hard to say which is the most appealing... And can we just agree the concept artist nathaneel did an amazing job on every single one of these entries?! π...
2024-12-13 21:13:24 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, happy December! βοΈ
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 hope you have a wonderful start to your week!
2024-12-02 20:54:47 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! I hope you had a relaxing (possibly holiday) weekend! Let's kick off the new week and December by voting on our next commissioned art poll!
In our last round of this poll, you voted to focus on Characters and ROs. Now's your chance to pick which character and RO you'd like to see our next commissioned art piece showcase!
Characters who have already won previous polls will be marked with an asterisk!
2024-12-02 20:45:35 +0000 UTC View PostPassword: turkeytrots β¬ βοΈ
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Hi there! Here's our third legendary weapon: the Warpwood Striker! I just love the ghostly touches to this spirit-bow. Can you imagine your archer MC walking around with this slung across their back?! The weapons are each shaping up to have individual themes that I wasn't entirely anticipating, but I think they're sooo cool! π€© We had a hard time picking a color palette for this one because they all looked so good!
I hope you enjoy! β¨
Hello everyone! I hope you all enjoyed Chandry's reference sheet (which you basically made me commission at swordpoint! π€βοΈ)! Now we're on to our next piece of commissioned art, decided by you!
If you're new to this, continually voting on art commissions is a special reward that Patrons of the game have unlocked here on this Patreon!
This series of polls moves in three stages or rounds, culminating in the final commissioned art piece at the end of...
2024-11-05 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, happy November! π I hope your week is ending on a properly autumnal note (or, um, spring-ish, I suppose, if you're in the Southern Hemisphere!)
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...
2024-11-01 18:38:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Four
Prihineβs father had been considered cursed by the court in Brunen.
Itβd started off as a joke, one of t...
2024-10-31 22:46:45 +0000 UTC View Post