Shepherds of Haven Cover Art (May Goody) (Patreon)

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 detail--I think the artist, Angela Wang, absolutely knocked it out of the park, especially with the incredible backdrop, colors, and details! 

This commission took several months to complete due to the level of detail required, as well as a few complicating factors: I wanted the cover to depict a figure that could be a version of the MC, surrounded by figures that could be variously interpreted as different kinds of gods and demons, but ambiguously enough that it doesn't necessarily have to be MC, either... kind of like how female Shepard is always depicted as having red hair in all of the marketing materials for Mass Effect, but that doesn't necessary reflect your Shepard: it's a stand-in! But it could also not be MC at all... 🤔 You might understand what I mean as the story goes on!

I also wanted the main Shepherds/ROs depicted on the cover in some way, but having 10-12 other figures in the scene would have made things insanely cluttered and crowded, so having their portraits hanging overhead was a fantastic solution we came up with instead! I wish we could have squeezed in pictures of all of the crew, including Halek, Mimir, Caine, Croelle, and Prihine, but it would have skewed the image's proportions too much, so in the end, we had to compromise and settle for 10--which is already a ton, I'm surprised we could fit that many! Basically, it took a lot of back and forth, but I think the results are incredibly worth it! 💖

What do you think? Do you find it as gorgeous as I do? 🤩✨ I'm so excited to see how it will look in the game and am already tinkering with the prototype! If you enjoy, drop a comment below--I tried to provide some zoom-ins of the detail work as well! 💖