Everstone Daycare v0.6 - August Demo

Howdy everyone!

I apologize for the very late posting of the demo. Unfortunately, It's a little light this time around, and we weren’t able to finish all the content we had planned to work on at the beginning of the month. But first let me list out what is new in this demo!

New Content

Robo hands scene - Started by interacting with the changing table in the change room next to the nap room, this is a short scene where your character’s carelessness accidentally lands them into an automated change with one of the daycare’s more advanced pieces of tech.

Introduction to Janitor Trubbish - The storage room adjacent to the playroom and across from the nap room is now open! A short introduction to one of the daycare’s least enthused members of their staff that might be relevant to future scenes involving the weird tech in the daycare.

Now onto the heavier issue:

Honestly, pushing this demo out has been a bit of a struggle for a couple of reasons: The changing of the seasons and working on an unfamiliar topic (at least to me) had left both me and Spooky in a rut and stuck in an art block for most of the beginning of the month. A big family matter has also left Spooky’s hands tied and away from his computer, preventing him from finishing as many scenes as he could.

The biggest hurdle and the one that’s been plaguing me up to now though (and the reason for such a last minute and light release) is plainly…burnout. Months of feeling like I’m always working from behind while needing to make new content that matches the scope and size of previous month’s that I don’t always have the time to properly implement coupled with not having made any personal art or anything not related to Everstone Daycare in nearly a year has left me drained and exhausted creatively.

This is a fairly frustrating situation to be in as I’d much rather be able to continue working on the game, but I might have to make a small compromise for the sake of my mental health. I’ll make a full post soon about what our exact plans for next month will be and how we might address this issue, but most likely we might have to steer off course temporarily.

As always, any feedback, questions, bug reports, and suggestions are appreciated! Please feel free to send me a private message and I’ll get back to you when I’m able! Thank you all again for your patience.

I hope what content is available during this demo is still satisfactory to everyone and I apologize again for not being able to deliver all that I intended to work on earlier. I still intend to work on both the second robo-hands scene and the Mew hypnosis scene in the future, but for now, please enjoy the demo!

Install Instructions

Due to the increasing size of the project, the file will now be hosted on my itch.io page for the game [password: Trubbish318]

Please extract the game folder to your directory of choice, and then run the 'Everstone Daycare.exe' file within to play the  game. Enjoy!

Please note for the Mac version that this is not a signed app, so you may encounter an error  when first trying to open this program. Please follow the instructions  on this support page to work around this.

Walkthrough

If you're stuck, please refer to this document: Everstone Daycare Walkthrough

Disclaimer

Any saves carried over from previous demos might cause issues when playing through them in the current demo. In the event that any flags, variables, and other data were changed in a scene after you had completed it already in your current save file, you might not be able to access the new content. Creating a new game file is advised.

Bug Fixes:

Removed all checks relating to the Patrol system when entering the toy box. Because the Patrol system relies on checking your current map ID, and the inventory is technically its own map but without a map ID, it was causing issues and crashes. Hopefully this now allows you to enter the inventory while the Patrol system is active.

Known Issues:

Loading into a save where the Patrol system is active causes you to freeze or crash. I've yet to find the solution for this, but for now, I'd suggest not saving at these points in the game.