Welcome to Shepherds of Haven’s Season of Giving!

Shepherds of Haven is having a Season of Giving event this year! There will be sales, discounts, and gift ideas galore throughout the month of December, and even a free giveaway for a chance to win an exclusive holiday-themed Halek mug at the bottom of this post, so please keep reading for more details! 🎄

🎄 GIFTS, SALES, AND DISCOUNTS 🎄

Patreon Special – 20% Off Your First Month!

Get a 20% discount on your first month’s subscription to my Patreon, where you can access the world of Shepherds of Haven through exclusive content like the alpha build, game development polls, special art and lore, short stories and merch, and much more!

🎁 Use code 8A800 and join here: https://patreon.com/rinari

Gift a Patreon Membership!

Did you know you can gift Patreon memberships now? If you’ve ever wanted to share the fun of Shepherds of Haven with a friend or loved one, you can now do so very easily!

🎁 Gift anything from a month to a full year here: https://www.patreon.com/rinari/gift

Pick Up a Copy of My Book!

If you know any science fiction or horror or thriller fans in your life, my book, WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE, is available in all formats! WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE follows misanthropic psychologist, Dr. Grace Park, as she journeys aboard a spaceship headed to a newly-discovered planet. Madness and murder descend on the ship as Park’s thirteen shipmates begin experiencing identical nightmares and hallucinations after arriving on the new planet, and the key to the chaos seems to lie with the ship’s androids…

WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE is a locked-room mystery thriller in space, a meditation on empathy, AI, and consciousness, and a futuristic mind-bender all in one, and is perfect for fans of Alien, Dead Space, I, Robot, Event Horizon, and The Murderbot Diaries.

🎁 Hardcover, paperback, and e-book: Penguin Random House 🎁 Audiobook: Audible

Merchandise Sale – Up to 40% Off Redbubble!

Shepherds of Haven merchandise on Redbubble is anywhere from 20% to 40% off for the month of December! Whether it’s stickers, shirts, tote bags, or notebooks, now’s the time to grab any favorites you’ve been eyeing for yourself or a friend! (Stickers and sticker sets are at an especially low price.) You can even stack your savings with the additional Redbubble site-wide discounts if you’re timely!

🎁 Shop: rinari-haven

🎄 GIVEAWAY: Win a Limited-Edition Holiday Halek Mug! 🎄

To celebrate the occasion, I’m giving away 3 exclusive winter-themed Halek mugs—perfect for sipping cocoa by the fire this season! ☕ This is a limited-edition mug, so this giveaway is the only way to get one! To enter, just do the following by December 14th:

1️⃣ Follow this blog 2️⃣ Like and reblog this post with your favorite Shepherds of Haven character, scene, or quote, and tell us why it’s your favorite! (Alpha build content is okay!) 3️⃣ Bonus Entry: Reblog with a piece of holiday-themed fanart or fan fiction for a second additional entry into the giveaway! 

Entries close December 14th 11:00 PM EST, and winners will be contacted through Tumblr DMs for their shipping addresses that day! 

💌 THANK YOU! 💌

Small announcement for today and that is you guys hit the fourth community goal!

The team's gonna share some phone UI designs for you guys to vote over down the line. In the meantime though, level 5 is up for y'all to tackle! It's a bit of a jump, but with six calls on the line it's only fair, no?

Nov 7 is the date, mark it.

Available on Steam and Itch

Do you know what we said to ourselves when we started the kickstarter? We were building some gameplay systems for The Hunger, and it was hard work. We said: "Boy, this thing is gonna take years, and it's already burning us out. We should do a ‘small thing, quick-like’, as a break. What if we made a definitive/director's cut of The Remainder? Shouldn't take us long, right? Four months should do it? Six tops?"

Fast forward to fourteen months later, we're finally going to launch it. I recently learned about a rule of production planning: Take what you think a project will need, and multiply it by pi, and you'll get the actual time you'll spend.

The math checks out.

Let's see just exactly how much we expanded the game, shall we?

It started at around 145,000 words, now it is 171,000. You can do the math there. Some of this is new deaths, some are new ending variations, and some just generally fleshing out things that were too thin or adding more flavour and interest in what we found to be bland. Now it should be a feast through and through.

On top of that, we pretty much re-wrote the entire thing over via several editing passes.

We added five new artworks, revised around twenty, a few of which significantly, composed four more ambient tracks, and added 467 unique sound effects.

Also, the new price will be 27.99 usd. This will not affect those who already own the game. Currenty the game is on sale on Itch so it’s a great time to grab it before the price increases. ^^

Once the new release is out on steam and itch.io, we will start producing the physical art, the prints, linocuts, CDs, and original artworks.

It will likely be another few months before all those are done and shipped out.