Rhea VN (Emerald Dawn) Update!

Hello frens long time no talk! I'm sorry for the radio silence, I've been swamped with work on Emerald Dawn (title for my Rhea fan VN) and I didn't know what to post without going into spoiler territory or without being redundant. Anyway, let's talk about some updates!

• Delay - I'm sorry to start with this but I need 1 more week to go over and polish everything 🙏 Initial release is moved to June 17! 
• Initial Release (version 0.5) -  I would say that the project is 50% finished at this point. Word count is currently at around 9K and there's a good number of CGs in the VN. Although far from what I would call finished, I'm pleased with the contents of the initial release so far.  
• Version 1.0 -  I've already mapped out the "Main" scenario of Emerald Dawn so all that's left is to finish the thing and I'm very committed to doing that (or until Nintendo stops me lol.) I can't put a definite date for the 1.0 release, but based on my progress in the past month, I believe I can reach 1.0 in the next 1-2 months. Do note that Emerald Dawn is a kinetic VN/linear VN meaning it has no branching paths/player choices. It's a focused story about Rhea. That being said:
• Beyond 1.0 - I'm entertaining the idea of adding self-contained stories that don't necessarily tie in with the main scenario. For instance, I have a scenario with all the Rhea variants from FEH and I'm dying to write that lol. Manuela also deserves a side story because I found a new appreciation for her while writing Emerald Dawn ^^ Basically, I still have a bunch of scenarios that I want to write, but some of those scenarios may be better explored in different contexts. That brings me to:
• Other Project(s) - Working on Emerald Dawn is honestly the most gratifying self-indulgent thing I've done in years. But I have so many more stories to tell and I don't want to restrict myself to Rhea/FE3H. I think I mentioned this before, but I'm working on an original Fantasy Eroge, which is currently on hold since I'm spending all my energy on Emerald Dawn. I'm going full force on that after I wrap up Emerald Dawn! ^^

tl;dr Emerald Dawn initial release is moved to next week, June 17!

I also wanted to talk about Patreon Rewards. As you can see above, I haven't delivered March, April, and May rewards yet. However, I will marathon the rewards after the initial release of Emerald Dawn next week!

March's poll winner was Mai Shiranui, with Manuela in close second. Please note that we haven't held April and May polls yet. We'll do those after I deliver March rewards.

I'm changing the monthly Patreon rewards a little bit: I'm going to draw just the 1st and 2nd poll winners so it's easier for me to deliver said rewards and so that I have more time for Emerald Dawn/game dev. I know that not everyone is into VNs or eroges but I'm really invested in it and I am pursuing it going forward.

I think that's all I wanted to talk about. I hope this post brings everyone up to speed! Let me know if you have any questions (either for Emerald Dawn or rewards), sound off in the comments or message me. Cheers!