Everstone Daycare - Plans for February

Howdy! I would like to thank everyone again for the overwhelming positive response generated by the Systems Demo we released earlier. I definitely felt the pressure to make sure the first demo we released would be worth the wait and was worried about how people would take to it. I was really taken aback by how excited people were over the demo and how many new Patrons I received in the short time since the demo was released. I’m now only inches away from my Patreon goal of being able to work on Patreon full time, and it feels surreal. I’ll try my best to deliver a good product and meet everyone’s expectations!

As for February plans, now that we’ve laid out the groundwork of what systems the gameplay will be built on, we can start focusing more on developing the characters and the story as well as refining the systems/UI that we’ve already made. I’ll be making sure that the feedback we received in the last demo is taken into consideration and I already have a few plans on how I want to change the UI to answer the issues that have been brought up. Thankfully, now that everyone has had a chance to experience the different systems for themselves, I’ll be able to report on individual changes I make knowing that people now have a frame of reference.

We will continue to work on all the art assets we need, primarily the background images for the rooms that don’t have them currently and art for the NPCs that you’ll be interacting with throughout the game. This is definitely the most daunting task with the large number of rooms the building has. For the sake of being able to code in the rooms earlier, they will probably continue to all be sketches when implemented for now.

We are still planning to create more music to be used in the game, particularly we’re still in discussion about what kind of music will play during punishment cutscenes. We’re still not sure as to what kind of mood it should give off and how sensual it should be given the sillier nature of the game. I will update everyone once we’ve come to a decision and the song has been made.

I will be the one mostly in charge of writing the story (with input from Spooky, especially when it comes to dialogue and his own characters) while Spooky and Tennet are busy doing the art and music respectively. It’s a big boost in confidence knowing that people responded positively to the tutorial I wrote, especially as someone who isn’t a writer in any sense. We plan to include more characters other than the ones you’d already be familiar with if you follow Spooky’s Pokemon artwork, including ones that will be more tailored to Tennet’s and my taste. We will make sure they’re not too thematically dissimilar from the rest of the cast, though we might ask input from you guys to get some feedback before we commit to including them.

Again, thank you all for all the support, even after the rocky first 2 months of this Patreon. We will try our best to deliver a new demo to you guys by the end of this month!