Everstone Daycare - Progress Report (Jan. 12, 2023)

Howdy everyone! Happy 2023!

Spooky and I are back from our holiday responsibilities, and we’ve been hard at work! Here’s an update on what we’ve been working on so far!

We’ve finished up writing and revising the Nurse Mew hypnosis scene that we’ve had to put off the last few months. This punishment scene won’t be tied to a specific event in the story, and is more of just “the first time you get in trouble with Nurse Mew”. Therefore, it’s planned that there could be different ways that you could end up stumbling into this scene. We’re not sure if one of those ways will be present with what story we have so far this month, but we’re planning to let you view it from the title screen just in case.

We’ve also now started writing the start of the next section of the story! We wanted to clean up some of the visuals and work on a bit of side content first before getting back on course with the main plot, and now it’s finally time! We have all the details sorted out already from last month, so it should be a straight shot to the end unless we get sidetracked by any side content we want to add.

We’ve also been in more talks with the guest writer we mentioned previously. We’ve discussed and asked him for a short, optional, and kinky side-scene for us to implement (more details to come later), so that’s currently in the works as well. Depending on how easy this is for us to implement and the response to different writing styles and guest writers being present all will determine whether or not we’ll consider doing something like this again. It’s definitely an experiment for us.

Spooky is updating the old, rough sprites we were using for some of the Pokemon, and giving Pokemon that didn’t have one already sprites of their own. So far, we have an updated sprite for Nurse Charmeleon, Ekans, Scyther, Nurse Mew and a new sprite for Salandit (see above). We hope to get through all the major ‘mons on the Retraining side this month!

Tennet is working on an update to Ursaring’s theme. The current one is nice, but we weren’t satisfied with how well of a representation it is of Ursaring’s character. We currently have a draft being revised and worked on, but I’ll wait to post the finished version once it’s been finalized.

That’s all for now! Thank you all again for your support!