Everstone Daycare - Progress Report (Dec. 31, 2021)

Happy Holidays everyone! I hope you've all had a relaxing post-Christmas season. I apologize for the lack of activity and silence for the past few days; Tennet, Spooky, and (especially) I have all been caught up in holiday commitments. Thankfully, soon enough, my holiday hell will be over and I should be able to travel back home and resume working and drawing at my regular PC by Jan. 4, 2022.

First off, I'd like to thank everyone for sticking with me for these difficult first 2 months of my Patreon. Between having to juggle bills, commission, and a completely new commitment in November, to having to spend a whole month away from home this December, I'm really happy that you all continue to give your support. This last month has been extremely taxing on my mental health and my ability to work on anything productive. I'm really thankful that this will be the first time in a few years where I'll be able to return home from my holiday commitments and not have to struggle twice as hard in January to pay all my bills to make up for the entire month that I lost.

Now, as for actual news, there's not much to report this week as most of it was spent being busy with other commitments, however we do have one new song to show. As mentioned in it's release post, we finished what will be the main theme that plays throughout the facility during the night periods of the game. We wanted to reference the Pokemon Center theme as Everstone Daycare is based off of a Pokemon Center, so the main themes that will be used will be our own remixes of that theme, a swingy theme that plays during the day, and a subdued theme that plays during the evenings. Only the night theme is 100% complete so far, but the day theme is about halfway done, so please expect it soon. 

I've also begun outlining the story and dialogue for the first few sets of scenes we want to test out, creating a linear route to test all the different mechanics we want to implement. I will be spending most of my time filling in the specific dialogue and descriptions that will be present in these scenes. Once I'm back home, I should be able to finalize all the UI designs and implement them into something playable (something that I struggle to do while on my travel laptop.) 

My goal is to have something substantial that's playable (But not necessarily complete) by the end of the month. Between me being able to devote the proper time to working on this project finally, and Spooky's schedule clearing up as well, we should be able to start releasing progress reports with more tangible progress soon. Again, all your support has meant the world to me, and I'll try my best to work as hard as I can to make up for these last 2 months that I lost!