VN Ren'Py Karlsson's Gambit [v0.8.2B Final] [Grym Gudinna Games]

[Maviarab]

Just caught another ditzy Kane moment

Elena: Your mother felt your life was in danger as a result of a grudge between Alexander and your father.

Not even an hour later

Olivia: Alexander Karlsson is my father.
Kane: Is he my father too?

As one saying goes, "it would be funny if it wasn't so sad". Anyway, if it's not a joke and Elena really does say such a phrase (I wonder in which scene), then it's definitely worth writing Tess about it, because it seems more like an accidental mistake by Tess herself, rather than the inconsideration of Kane that we sometimes see.

To play devil's advocate again:

While Kane can be very dumb at time, nothing Elena said actually suggests nor confirms anything. They could have been married, fell out, Alexander gets a grudge...Callista leaves.

For Miles, you just think it's dumb cos we know all the info and Kane keeps missing information (though he is increasingly thinking to himself why did someone say that), but in this instance, there is nothing wrong with the dialogue as it neither confirms nor denies anything regarding whether or not Alexander is his father or not. To also be fair to Kane as an individual, everyone around him talks in riddles, uses misdirection, withholds information and keeps telling him, be patient, when the time is right.

 

[HLoic]

Hello. Sorry to Ask but each time i open the game the settings restart. (Fullscreen/Window, names of page1 ... and i can't skip a scene already seen before). Anyone Can help me to keep the settings each time I open the game ? Thanks

 

[Stan5851]

To play devil's advocate again:

While Kane can be very dumb at time, nothing Elena said actually suggests nor confirms anything. They could have been married, fell out, Alexander gets a grudge...Callista leaves.

For Miles, you just think it's dumb cos we know all the info and Kane keeps missing information (though he is increasingly thinking to himself why did someone say that), but in this instance, there is nothing wrong with the dialogue as it neither confirms nor denies anything regarding whether or not Alexander is his father or not. To also be fair to Kane as an individual, everyone around him talks in riddles, uses misdirection, withholds information and keeps telling him, be patient, when the time is right.

You're right... I wrote about it here once before too. We misunderstand Kane by judging his level of knowledge of what's going on around him based on our own level...And then we accuse him of stupidity...But I'll say more (and I think I won't be wrong) - most of the players who didn't come to our thread, didn't participate in the discussion and didn't get into the details and nuances of the game, simply won't notice anything funny/unusual in the fact that Kane didn't turn out to be Sherlock Holmes and didn't unravel the whole tangle by a couple of hints and reservations of the characters...And what is obvious for some, can be completely unobvious for others.

 

[Maviarab]

Hello. Sorry to Ask but each time i open the game the settings restart. (Fullscreen/Window, names of page1 ... and i can't skip a scene already seen before). Anyone Can help me to keep the settings each time I open the game ? Thanks

Ehhh I'm no Ren'py expert at all...and a quick google doesn't help either but I would have thought Ren'py saved all those kind of settings in the persistant file in AppData *shrugs*

if no one here can tell you might be worth asking over in General Troubleshooting as this isn't so much a problem with KG but with Ren'py. Do other VN's save these general settings or not? I'd be temptefd to delete the persistant file and then restart the game, change settings, save and then load up again to see if they stay set.

However, a completely new version like this just had (a new season effectively) you will need to reset them all again. Should only need doing once though, I've not had any issues.

 

[HLoic]

Ehhh I'm no Ren'py expert at all...and a quick google doesn't help either but I would have thought Ren'py saved all those kind of settings in the persistant file in AppData *shrugs*

if no one here can tell you might be worth asking over in General Troubleshooting as this isn't so much a problem with KG but with Ren'py. Do other VN's save these general settings or not? I'd be temptefd to delete the persistant file and then restart the game, change settings, save and then load up again to see if they stay set.

However, a completely new version like this just had (a new season effectively) you will need to reset them all again. Should only need doing once though, I've not had any issues.

Thank you for your answer. I will try to Ask there. I've got this problem only for KG and another one. For all the other games it works perfectly.

 

[Bulletproof 2301]

Android version please

 

[Maviarab]

Thank you for your answer. I will try to Ask there. I've got this problem only for KG and another one. For all the other games it works perfectly.

Hmmm...weird one. Do let us know though if you manage to find out, be useful information to store in the back of the head in case anyone else ever asks.

 

[Maviarab]

Please release the Android version anyone, can't wait to play

Please leak the Android version

Android version please

Dude...stop fecking spamming. If it was available, it would be in the OP! Constantly spamming isn't going to get it you any quicker, in fact, I'd imagine quite the opposite.

 

[Bulletproof 2301]

Dude...stop fecking spamming. If it was available, it would be in the OP! Constantly spamming isn't going to get it you any quicker, in fact, I'd imagine quite the opposite.

Sorry dude

 

[Rocket007!]

Can anyone help me how to open the v 8 game. I have already extracted the file but the game is not opening.

 

[drisarter]

Ideas... yeah, I have one in particular.


It has nothing to do with the mod, but likely has everything to do with what VN version you are running (modded or not doesn't matter). Hoboy, see posts here and here... confirm you DL'd and playing on v0.7b of the VN.

Edit: Note - it's physically impossible to get to Tess's final scene without viewing and processing the export Mask screen in v0.7b, that's why confirmation is paramount to discovering first and why I'm asking.

I'm sorry for being a pain, as I can seen that you've fielded a lot of questions about this already (and know you get a lot all the time about a lot of things). But I'm having a version of the problem this user had (the option to create a named save for export to 0.8 doesn't appear, and I'm playing on mac) except that 1) I absolutely am playing on v0.7b when I attempt the export, and 2) after the screens where the export save option should appear but doesn't, I then get this error:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
File "game/KGS1_export.rpy", line 723, in <module>
TypeError: '>=' not supported between instances of 'NoneType' and 'int'

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
File "KGS1_export.rpyc", line 723, in script
File "/renpy-8.0.2-sdk/renpy/ast.py", line 2115, in execute
if renpy.python.py_eval(condition):
File "/renpy-8.0.2-sdk/renpy/python.py", line 1083, in py_eval
return py_eval_bytecode(code, globals, locals)
File "/renpy-8.0.2-sdk/renpy/python.py", line 1076, in py_eval_bytecode
return eval(bytecode, globals, locals)
File "game/KGS1_export.rpy", line 723, in <module>
TypeError: '>=' not supported between instances of 'NoneType' and 'int'

Ren'Py 8.0.2.22081402
KarlssonsGambit 0.7.FinalB

If I ignore that error (which I suspect is/ ought to be the page where the export option appears?) it then takes me through to Tess's final message thing. Do you (or does anyone else?) have any idea of the cause, or how to fix it? I've read through all the suggestions I've been able to find but am starting to worry I may have to replay from the very beginning (which, even with skipping, I really don't want to have to do at this stage).

 

[Maviarab]

Can anyone help me how to open the v 8 game. I have already extracted the file but the game is not opening.

It just doesn't open...at all? Can you give us some more information on exactly what is happening? System? Tried redownloading the zip in case was corrupted?

 

[Sancho1969]

I'm sorry for being a pain, as I can seen that you've fielded a lot of questions about this already (and know you get a lot all the time about a lot of things). But I'm having a version of the problem this user had (the option to create a named save for export to 0.8 doesn't appear, and I'm playing on mac) except that 1) I absolutely am playing on v0.7b when I attempt the export, and 2) after the screens where the export save option should appear but doesn't, I then get this error:



If I ignore that error (which I suspect is/ ought to be the page where the export option appears?) it then takes me through to Tess's final message thing. Do you (or does anyone else?) have any idea of the cause, or how to fix it? I've read through all the suggestions I've been able to find but am starting to worry I may have to replay from the very beginning (which, even with skipping, I really don't want to have to do at this stage).

Assuming you are indeed on v0.7b, please standby... allow me time to open the project and review your specific issue for analysis and a recommendation...

Edit: drisarter You are indeed on v0.7b. The issue you are having is the export code conditional seeking how many open (non used) export save slots are available:

    ...
    if gamePass == 1 and not mp1_2.gamePass >= 2: # Sancho: see post note below for more info
    ...

What I'm having difficulty thinking of is why in the world on Mac would the MultiPersistent data file creation would result in a "nonetype" error... it's as if you have write protections in place and the initial MultiPersistent file cannot be created and therefore the open slots not existing at all.

Post Note: For clarity on what the conditional is doing (see my "Sancho" note in the above code snippet): this initial portion of the conditional is seeking if the first save slot is used or not and if it is used to go to the next part of the conditional, and if it is open (unused) then proceed with the commands under this portion of the conditional. Your error is saying that the first slot (named "mp1_2.gamePass" for this purpose) is nonexistent.

Are you running the VN directly on the Mac or via a VM (virtual machine)?

 

[drisarter]

Assuming you are indeed on v0.7b, please standby... allow me time to open the project and review your specific issue for analysis and a recommendation...

Edit: drisarter You are indeed on v0.7b. The issue you are having is the export code conditional seeking how many open (non used) export save slots are available:

    ...
    if gamePass == 1 and not mp1_2.gamePass >= 2: # Sancho: see post note below for more info
    ...

What I'm having difficulty thinking of is why in the world on Mac would the MultiPersistent data file creation would result in a "nonetype" error... it's as if you have write protections in place and the initial MultiPersistent file cannot be created and therefore the open slots not existing at all.

Post Note: For clarity on what the conditional is doing (see my "Sancho" note in the above code snippet): this initial portion of the conditional is seeking if the first save slot is used or not and if it is used to go to the next part of the conditional, and if it is open (unused) then proceed with the commands under this portion of the conditional.

Are you running the VN directly on the Mac or via a VM (virtual machine)?

I'm running it directly on the mac. However I launched the VN via the renpy launcher app rather than opening the mac app directly. As when I tried to do that none of my 0.7 saves would load.

 

[Sancho1969]

I'm running it directly on the mac. However I launched the VN via the renpy launcher app rather than opening the mac app directly. As when I tried to do that none of my 0.7 saves would load.

My gut is telling me that your system is preventing write privileges wherever the heck on Mac is the equivalent to PC's "(user name)/AppData/Roaming/RenPy". I don't use Mac so maybe you have some insight (this is where you'd want to look so we can proceed). This might also explain why your old v0.7 saves weren't found (if on the same system). Again, this is just my gut reaction, so take it with a grain of salt for now.

Otherwise all I can think of is to rewrite the dev's export code so that it will mandate data export but you'd only get one "slot"... in other words take the ability of multi-exports out of the equation.... which to be honest is a pain in the ass... but it's a viable "last resort" option.

 

[Sancho1969]

Post Note: For clarity on what the conditional is doing (see my "Sancho" note in the above code snippet): this initial portion of the conditional is seeking if the first save slot is used or not and if it is used to go to the next part of the conditional, and if it is open (unused) then proceed with the commands under this portion of the conditional. Your error is saying that the first slot (named "mp1_2.gamePass" for this purpose) is nonexistent.

Technicals for those curious how the field variable "mp1_2.gamePass" is defined (highlighted in yellow above):

init python:
    mp1_2 = MultiPersistent ( "Karlssons.gambit.s1" ) # Sancho: this is how RenPy understands the "export data file name"
    gamePass = 1 # Sancho: this variable is created to be used as the "save slots" reference going forward.

 

[drisarter]

My gut is telling me that your system is preventing write privileges wherever the heck on Mac is the equivalent to PC's "(user name)/AppData/Roaming/RenPy". I don't use Mac so maybe you have some insight (this is where you'd want to look so we can proceed). This might also explain why your old v0.7 saves weren't found (if on the same system). Again, this is just my gut reaction, so take it with a grain of salt for now.

Otherwise all I can think of is to rewrite the dev's export code so that it will mandate data export but you'd only get one "slot"... in other words take the ability of multi-exports out of the equation.... which to be honest is a pain in the ass... but it's a viable "last resort" option.

What is the function of the "(user name)/AppData/Roaming/RenPy" folder? I know where saves are stored on mac "(user name)/Library/RenPy" but I don't imagine that'd be what you mean? As obviously regular game saves can be written fine (and I've also just checked and my user profile should have full read and write permissions).

I guess I'm asking so that if I know what that folder does, I might be able to look up what the equivalent is on Mac?

Thank you for your help with all this, btw, realise it's well beyond your remit.

 

[Sancho1969]

What is the function of the "(user name)/AppData/Roaming/RenPy" folder? I know where saves are stored on mac "(user name)/Library/RenPy" but I don't imagine that'd be what you mean? As obviously regular game saves can be written fine (and I've also just checked and my user profile at least should have full read and write permissions.

I guess I'm asking so that if I know what that folder does, I might be able to look up what the equivalent is on Mac?

Thank you for your help with all this, btw, realise it's well beyond your remit.

Now that's something we can work with. Please check the directory "(user name)/Library/RenPy" and see if within it there's another directory named exactly "persistent" (all lower-case). Not a file but an actual directory.

 

[Maviarab]

What is the function of the "(user name)/AppData/Roaming/RenPy" folder? I know where saves are stored on mac "(user name)/Library/RenPy" but I don't imagine that'd be what you mean? As obviously regular game saves can be written fine (and I've also just checked and my user profile at least should have full read and write permissions.

I guess I'm asking so that if I know what that folder does, I might be able to look up what the equivalent is on Mac?

Thank you for your help with all this, btw, realise it's well beyond your remit.

The folder contains game saves/persistant data that is not held in the actual games folder. For example, in AppData (PC) the KG save folder is actually called Test1-1575173365. If you deleted the game folder, then reinstalled it 6 months later, your saves and data still exist.

 

[drisarter]

Now that's something we can work with. Please check the directory "(user name)/Library/RenPy" and see if within it there's another directory names exactly "persistent" (all lower-case). Not a file but an actual directory.

There is. In that directory there's a file called "Karlssons.gambit.s1".