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

[daffyrolls94]

for helping cover a bit of work for me with a few things for now. I'm very lucky. I am working out a more permanent shift in KG's game production and who does what -- more on this when I'm ready. I'm weary (not the work itself the relentless toxicity from others and just want more cover to avoid dealing with this stuff) and need some help to keep going. It is quite likely that I consider some shifts to my overall final arc/narrative in a deliberate effort to turn away these kinds of people permanently from the game. Any changes will not impact (not much anyway) the sub or secret sub path or anything relating to harem/normal/good dom paths. Two romances on the dom path will be eliminated and one will shift to sub side now, one sub romance will likely shift also to dom side. A lot more on all of this later. I am outlining extensively right now and will all week.

I will try and be very transparent so those that like certain characters can decide if they want to keep playing with these changes.

Dom Path: Celeste will be more minimized, her original plan from my side is shelved for good.
Dom Path: Angelica path will be changed from original plan, more later.
Dom Path: Veronica unchanged, new branch possible.
Sub Path: Angelica will have a new path.
Secret Sub Path: Almost no changes from original plan.
Endings: I will now have 16 total endings, three new ones, but two are gone now. The two endings I eliminated were nicknamed by me "Lone Ranger" and "Red Domination"
Please read this one carefully: There will be no Dom Path ending for Kiyomi anymore, this is a very specific decision by me. (Lone Ranger Ending)

If this is about preempting tos there's a far better way to do that than moralizing fetishes, especially ones featured in this game. In fact it makes reports more likely.

 

[Kxca]

I'm not sure how to feel about this for one reason I like Chelsea and the rest doesn't sound great for the dom players from the discord

Spoiler: I want to thank Anais

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So we wait four years for Kiyomi's (supposedly honorable character in this debaucherous world) scene with Dom Kane, and then the path gets dropped. We were told for all these years that the Kiyomi path would start at the opportune time, and now it's gone. Really disappointed with this.

Didn't Tess say that her opinions on the game are more important than the opinions of collective humanity? So why the sudden changes to narratives? I doubt there are a lot of people who care about Kiyomi, and even fewer who are taking the time out to "harass" her

 

[Stan5851]

So we wait four years for Kiyomi's (supposedly honorable character in this debaucherous world) scene with Dom Kane, and then the path gets dropped. We were told for all these years that the Kiyomi path would start at the opportune time, and now it's gone. Really disappointed with this.

Didn't Tess say that her opinions on the game are more important than the opinions of collective humanity? So why the sudden changes to narratives? I doubt there are a lot of people who care about Kiyomi, and even fewer who are taking the time out to "harass" her

Yes, we've waited a long time for this, but now you know the true value of her promises.

 

[DoverDad]

Yes, we've waited a long time for this, but now you know the true value of her promises.

By the time this game finishes, there will be no dom patch left

 

[MilesEdgeworth]

It honestly sounds like Tess is getting overwhelmed with the game so she's removing the easy to remove people and parts to help uncomplicate things but to avoid too much bitching she hides it in perverts harassing her.

 

[Esti]

now you know the true value of her promises

Now? It's kinda obvious that Tess is much more inclined to produce femdom content, so Dom Kane's route updates would always be first on the chopping block. I hope that I'm wrong, but I wouldn't be even a little surprised if, by the end of the game, last parts of Dom route would be little more than placeholders.

 

[Hazardgaming]

It sounds as if the dev intends to ensure that the story ends up in one of the possible starting scenarios for the quantum academy.

 

[Genkupok]

Even though I’m a femdom enjoyer, I find it sad that you guys don’t have what she promised you. The thing I love the most about femdom in this game is that it’s never forced upon me and I could do the dom path since the beginning. It’s MY choice and that very exciting. So making less maledom content is kinda sad

 

[Jstforme]

Even though I’m a femdom enjoyer, I find it sad that you guys don’t have what she promised you. The thing I love the most about femdom in this game is that it’s never forced upon me and I could do the dom path since the beginning. It’s MY choice and that very exciting. So making less maledom content is kinda sad

Well I imagine the majority of her top subscribers are her "internet slaves" or whatever, and dev lives her life as a Femdom...the very existence of Maledom l think offends her on some level. The MC slave route always got more attention and detail, so it likely didn't take much convincing to just focus on that instead of a route that offends her lifestyle.
Just my opinion, I have no contact with the woman and base my observation of viewing what gets posted here.

Let the "you don't know what you're talking about", and facepalms begin!

 

[gtz-god]

Best walk through I know of is

KG WT V1.0.pdf

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[Maviarab]

Best walk through I know of is

KG WT V1.0.pdf

Pixeldrain

Which...no one asked for?

The best WT is the one done by Tess herself....available in the OP.

 

[Molmer]

It sounds as if the dev intends to ensure that the story ends up in one of the possible starting scenarios for the quantum academy.

What's the "quantum academy"

 

[Stan5851]

What's the "quantum academy"

It's "Game # 1" being developed by a friend of hers named Anais (she previously helped create KG, seemingly eps 6 and 7). The events in this game take place in humanity's mastered space, 200+ years after the end of the events of KG.

Hi, thought I would answer briefly here. I am reading the developer's thread section from like a year and there's some really good stuff in there that is helping me more than I expected! I tend to forget the devs too much on this site...definitely my bad.

There is a character in KG that cannot be killed no matter what because she is a major character in a game set in the future. In that game (and the other one more on that below) players will be able to "choose" one of four world states or a combo possibly of two of them that ended KG (I can't really see how I can save each ending over easily otherwise) and a few other facts about major characters. Now most of these characters are long gone as it's set in the future, but it may impact how that surviving female may act/talk about the past and what she does, etc. The male protagonist (who he is) may be impacted by the canon choices/endings.

Game # 1 will be more like a hero's journey (or villian) action/adventure sex/erotic game, I am only likely to write and support it not do the entire thing given time constraints. (I just don't have any more bandwidth) Much more "traditional" game with action/adventure and women to romance/harem, etc. But it will have a lot of choice/consequence. This game will likely start work sometime later this year but I will not be the lead dev but writing support. Not likely to have any femdom except (up to her) very vanilla style/gentle fun stuff with a specific romance possibly that is nowhere near as dark/harsh as KG.

Game #2 will be only femdom and set on one specific planet in the overall universe post KG and Game #1. I will not start this game until KG is finished. I prefer not to even share any details about this one yet, as I want to focus on the current game of course.

You can learn more about QA by seeing a small scene from there, which available after the end of 0.8.2 (KG) and the dev's post-final words.

 

[gtz-god]

Which...no one asked for?

The best WT is the one done by Tess herself....available in the OP.

I like pictures of characters with info they are and there connection in walk through when game got so many and a slow update so that weak at tress done not good enough for a great game like this now if there only 8 characters then it will be ok for me with my bad memory

 

[kinkyshin]

The identity of Grym Gudinna pt. 2


For the longest time, the most likely candidate for who could be Grym Gudinna has always been Alessandra, but I have always been hellbent in trying to prove otherwise (despite the mountain of evidence that supports this claim).

Spoiler: The mountain of evidence

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So why then would anyone in their right mind try to dispute Grym Gudinna's identity when there is so much evidence pointing towards Alessandra? Well, it mostly comes down to this quote:


Why in the actual fuck would Callista be telling Alessandra to turn Kane in her direction, when we know she desperately wants Olivia to win the Gambit with Kane? I would go as far as to say that this line has exclusively been the source of all doubt of Grym Gudinna's identity.

While we didn't know exactly what the World States were, we had a general idea, and Alessandra was initially only a possible option with Kane in World State A (which has now been confirmed with the Faction Summary to be the Gambit Success route).

Here is an older (outdated) Faction Summary:

However, the Faction Summary that's been released since has changed certain things around. Alessandra now appears to not be a romantic option on any of the Gambit paths, and certainly not a leader on any of those paths. But instead has actually been changed only being available to Kane on World States B and C.

This means that while we had no reason to believe that Alessandra wasn't capable of winning the Gambit in the past, there is now extremely strong evidence that says she cannot. This would make sense why Callista would be telling her to push Kane into her direction -- as she is not an actual threat to Olivia at least when it comes to the Gambit. (By the way, while you could argue that Alessandra simply doesn't want to be the leader, because she claims so, according to the faction sheet, she can become the leader of Faction C, so I don't think it's simply that she doesn't want to be a leader, but possibly she is simply not eligible for the Gambit for some reason. But it could be either)

Callista has also hinted that GrymGudinna could be redeemed in their conversation... The Faction Summary has also proven this to actually be possible with a little help from everyone's favorite redhead.

Anyways, I've completely given up trying to prove that Grym Gudinna isn't Alessandra because it's too ridiculous at this point, and will instead look for a new theory to peddle.

 

[kinkyshin]

BTW, am I the only person that had no clue where the Joy Facility was?

Like 50 playthroughs and I always assumed it was just at like Cape Town or an island just off the coast of South Africa.

Finally I googled it and it's all the way here in the middle of nowhere lol... caught me off guard

 

[The_Man_With_No_Name]

BTW, am I the only person that had no clue where the Joy Facility was?

Yes.

 

[The_Man_With_No_Name]

Windhoek is where the majority of Karlsson operations are centered.( I think they renamed it to Karlsson city or something I don't remember) The executive who you meet if you do the tour of Juliette's sales dept. operates from there. Most "mainland" things run through there. Cape Town is another key city with the Callista gated community where there is no resource rationing. Johannesburg is the main city for the Dekocks, New Paris is Botswana etc.

 

[kinkyshin]

Windhoek is where the majority of Karlsson operations are centered.( I think they renamed it to Karlsson city or something I don't remember) The executive who you meet if you do the tour of Juliette's sales dept. operates from there. Most "mainland" things run through there. Cape Town is another key city with the Callista gated community where there is no resource rationing. Johannesburg is the main city for the Dekocks, New Paris is Botswana etc.

Ah, yea those cities are where I thought they would be based off the explanations in game.

I think the main issue is that I only just learned there are islands in the middle of the ocean and it's blowing my mind lol. For example, I thought Bermuda was right next to Cuba and Puerto Rico. As it turns out it's quite a bit further than I had expected. You know when those late night talk show hosts go on the streets and look for idiots that don't know geography and start asking them questions? Yea...

Also, do you remember where Cole is located?

I remember at some point, they mention there is a place of relevance just north east of the wastelands but I can't remember why. If that's where he is, then that's quite the distance for Kiyomi to have just showed up to on a whim... also it was snowing there, I wouldn't think it snows much in northern Africa.

 

[The_Man_With_No_Name]

Ah, yea those cities are where I thought they would be based off the explanations in game.

I think the main issue is that I only just learned there are islands in the middle of the ocean and it's blowing my mind lol.

Yeah it's where the British exiled Napoleon because they didn't want to turn him into a martyr. Also has the worlds oldest turtle. It used to actually be more populated than it is now since boats don't need to make as many stops anymore.

Also, do you remember where Cole is located?

I remember at some point, they mention there is a place of relevance just north east of the wastelands but I can't remember why. If that's where he is, then that's quite the distance for Kiyomi to have just showed up to on a whim... also it was snowing there, I wouldn't think it snows much in northern Africa.

Never stated but I'd imagine somewhere arctic to test, and maybe try to reproduce, soil shielded under ice and unaffected by whatever catastrophe wrecked everyone's ability to grow things at scale. That's just a guess.

Whether it's somewhere arctic as we know it or somewhere frozen due to whatever catastrophe happened I don't Know. It was never really even stated what rendered most of the world barely habitable so it's just speculation.