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

[Finain]

Angelica previews are great, unfortunately there are other women there.

 

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Corporate Development Memo 6 April 2025

Hi everyone!

Just doing a bigger chunk of preview pics this week but might shift to slightly less on a normal update in future weeks (5-6 images), being careful about spoilers too!

First of all, I know the markets (stocks/crypto) are taking a beating so I hope everyone out there is ok and of course NFA (not financial advice) but sometimes the best times to buy great future profits is when the "blood/fear" is out there so to speak. So hope you all are ok. I'm not super political at all and feel I can adapt/adjust to anything that happens or anyone in office, but even from a negotiating/psychological tactic I don't quite get the tariffs too well.

The tariffs are likely impacting one small part of my design business soon (helping get furniture and other household items shipped from overseas as part of interior design packages as kind of add ons to the design work itself) and while some clients can easily ignore/absorb costs (the high end/1 percenters) others are very normal people and my business partner and I have decided to just eat some of those extra costs ourselves to help out. Reputation and brand/client loyalty -- even for a small business and in some ways especially so -- is more important than any short-term extra profits. And it's just a moral thing too for me...for a lot of people this is a "dream investment" of their funds and often one of the biggest decisions of their lives to try and make their home/space truly feel theirs. This feeling is so valuable in life if you have it I think...the vibe of truly feeling safe/comfortable in your home.

1) Quick Steam Update -- I think I've got the following five languages now all on board and it's moving along to the process of translating --> Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, French, Spanish. There will be future versions with more languages but these are the first five I wanted with a bigger chunk in a second version (some in there would be Japanese/Korean/Thai/Turkish and a few others) I honestly highly dislike working on any of this because literally zero percent of it is very creative but mostly all technical/formatting stuff but I'd like to give more players the chance to experience the game in their language. This will be difficult given the density of my script so will try very hard to avoid bad AI but more so manual translations by native speakers. More expensive/longer to make but I'm trying to think of the player experience as much as possible. I'm in no rush to get "a" version out but trying to get something out that will be a good experience.

Game Update (8.3.1):

2) I'm really busy with the time of year and now overall market conditions/taxes but managed to do 103 renders this week for a total of 958 renders overall for the game. I am managing to hit a metric of 100ish renders each week ok with the hope that later I can increase speed a bit as things -- hopefully -- calm down. I have been kind of split about evenly on the dom/sub paths I think but I will formally look at this soon (see below)

This is a change from what I thought I would do when I started working on this update but it's naturally played out that way and I let the creative process kind of go how it wants if it "feels" right versus sticking to a set plan on paper. One of the best/worst things about how I work is I can easily deviate from a plan if my gut says to do so -- but overall I think my intuition has been helpful in producing more creative writing/renders. (At least I hope so!)

3) I anticipate to cross over 1,000 renders by the next weekly update. Once this happens, I am likely to take the following week and do a lot of playtesting/notetaking of what I have so far and kind of do the "big picture" overview and see what tweaks/changes I might want to make for the next half of this update. I still anticipate a roughly 2,000ish render update but I want to take this week and really not be in "detail oriented" mode (individual renders/dialogue) and stick with the visionary/big picture process and make sure things are looking good. So I might expect a smaller render count that specific week unless things go really well as my intent that week (week of April 14ish to the next Sunday) and it also crosses Tax Day here so that will be a huge burden off too.

Polls:

4) Sub Poll - It seems we have a leader and remember I screwed up the duration of the poll. I will end it roughly this Friday night my time instead of the following week like it says (I just added an extra week by accident and Patreon doesn't seem to allow edits of the timeframe itself I tried). That particular scene is a very tough one to do (multiple environments) but I would enjoy doing it to be honest! (I think it's kind of well known now for some that one of my particular sadistic fantasies for me personally is "hunting" along with darts heh)

5) Dom Poll - This is the week to send to me ideas if you want me to consider anything. Remember to use the females that won and they are the following:

The "dom" female crew with Kane -- Amy, Kelly, Chloe (the trio of Pod 4 not named Angelica)

The "sub" females -- 1) Juliette was the clear winner so she will be in all scenarios

The "sub" females -- 2) Celeste second place so in some but not all scenarios

I am not likely to use three subs given four doms but you never know -- if I do use the third place female (Samantha) it will be not too often but you can share ideas including her if you have an idea!

I am targeting doing this poll near the same time I close the sub poll (roughly this Friday) so this is your chance to send ideas just like the sub poll!

The path I haven't really started at all is the secret sub path (other than some dialogue) and those scenes should start once they kind of get to individual VIP rooms (kind of the next natural step of the dom side)

The sub side is getting close to the "4th game" after some experiences/scenes and this was kind of always the structure (to hit most of this stuff near/after the 1000-1,100 render threshold) so mostly things are tracking pretty normally.

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Ok, everyone please have a great week!

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Thanks PL...DevLog sticky updated.

 

[MilesEdgeworth]

looks like they're all sub pics

 

[Stan5851]

looks like they're all sub pics

Yeah..and I can't give this a like if I wanted to. Well, maybe the next devlog in terms of pictures will be more interesting.

 

[Silver_Crow117]

looks like they're all sub pics

Not the 1st, 3rd,5th, 7th one… those are dom!

 

[PickerLewd]

Yeah..and I can't give this a like if I wanted to. Well, maybe the next devlog in terms of pictures will be more interesting.

Give me my like, I collect them .

 

[Stan5851]

Not the 1st, 3rd,5th, 7th one… those are dom!

I have this suspicion that all those pics you listed, except maybe 5th, are actually of the "secret sub". However, despite the formal connection to the Dom route, I don't consider it Dom content. For me "secret sub" = sub...Well, and the universal determinant that a picture belongs to sub and not to Dom is when Kane is naked and all the females are wearing clothes. Plus, naked Kane + Angelica and Alessa in the same shot..you don't have to go to a fortune teller to know what kind of path that is.

 

[HiHaHo]

naked Kane + Angelica and Alessa in the same shot..you don't have to go to a fortune teller to know what kind of path that is.

dom path, both off them on their knees , ready to please the royal rod.

yes i also do handreadings

 

[MilesEdgeworth]

the one with temu juliette is the only def dom, the others are debatable.

 

[Stan5851]

dom path, both off them on their knees , ready to please the royal rod.

yes i also do handreadings

I'd like to see it happen, but I doubt it will. Angelica, judging by the description of her character, is not the kind of person who is willing to share pure Dom Kane with all the Karlsson's. But the fact that she and Alessa are the "main stars" in the "secret sub" has been written about by many in this thread. Also, I don't remember any Dom pics where Kane was naked and the females, on the other hand, were clothed.

 

[HiHaHo]

I'd like to see it happen, but I doubt it will. Angelica, judging by the description of her character, is not the kind of person who is willing to share pure Dom Kane with all the Karlsson's. But the fact that she and Alessa are the "main stars" in the "secret sub" has been written about by many in this thread. Also, I don't remember any Dom pics where Kane was naked and the females, on the other hand, were clothed.

yeah was just trolling. you're probably right.
with so little context its easy to make it fit any off the paths..
the cloths could just be that its the start and kane put getting his dick wet before removing clothes

 

[Silver_Crow117]

I have this suspicion that all those pics you listed, except maybe 5th, are actually of the "secret sub". However, despite the formal connection to the Dom route, I don't consider it Dom content. For me "secret sub" = sub...Well, and the universal determinant that a picture belongs to sub and not to Dom is when Kane is naked and all the females are wearing clothes. Plus, naked Kane + Angelica and Alessa in the same shot..you don't have to go to a fortune teller to know what kind of path that is.

The pics I mentioned are from dom path, she hasn’t worked on secret sub yet.. plus for the Sub path, Angelica and Chloe have knee high heels, while dom path, they have ankle high heels
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Dom photo of heels and also dom Kane’s signature skull fing move

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[MilesEdgeworth]

The pics I mentioned are from dom path, she hasn’t worked on secret sub yet.. View attachment 4727136 plus for the Sub path, Angelica and Chloe have knee high heels, while dom path, they have ankle high heels
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Dom photo of heels and also dom Kane’s signature skull fing move

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[The_Man_With_No_Name]

The pics I mentioned are from dom path, she hasn’t worked on secret sub yet.. View attachment 4727136 plus for the Sub path, Angelica and Chloe have knee high heels, while dom path, they have ankle high heels
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In fairness Secret Sub is a branch off of Dom and shares most things in common until there is an interaction with a character who is "in on it" so to an outside observer telling the difference between them with just pictures is impossible unless there is something obvious like Alessandra sitting on Kane's face while he is wearing a suit or something.

The Angelica kissing Alessandra from the outside looks like S-Sub because they interact in that split off branch but not in Dom so far.

 

[Silver_Crow117]

In fairness Secret Sub is a branch off of Dom and shares most things in common until there is an interaction with a character who is "in on it" so to an outside observer telling the difference between them with just pictures is impossible unless there is something obvious like Alessandra sitting on Kane's face while he is wearing a suit or something.

The Angelica kissing Alessandra from the outside looks like S-Sub because they interact in that split off branch but not in Dom so far.

Um… okay? Still Dom photos

 

[Stan5851]

The Angelica kissing Alessandra from the outside looks like S-Sub because they interact in that split off branch but not in Dom so far.

Exactly. Also, I still don't understand why only Kane is naked in this Dom scene (naked Jake being a slave, I'm not taking into account) while Olivia is fully clothed, not to mention Alessandra and Angelica. Even Chloe, who submits to our will, is dressed..

If we turn not to season 1, where, btw, such scheme with dressed Kane was also observed, (and if DomKane is naked, then all the females are also naked), but to the current update, then even here it would be possible to clearly define to which scene this or that spoiler image refers, because on all Dom pics our Kane was dressed in his costume.

So similar and, in my opinion, not typical for the Dom route things (Kane is naked, and the others females are not), which are more typical for the Sub route, personally mislead me. Well, we'll see what this "Dom" scene will be like.

 

[The_Man_With_No_Name]

Exactly. Also, I still don't understand why only Kane is naked in this Dom scene (naked Jake being a slave, I'm not taking into account) while Olivia is fully clothed, not to mention Alessandra and Angelica. Even Chloe, who submits to our will, is dressed..

If we turn not to season 1, where, btw, such scheme with dressed Kane was also observed, (and if DomKane is naked, then all the females are also naked), but to the current update, then even here it would be possible to clearly define to which scene this or that spoiler image refers, because on all Dom pics our Kane was dressed in his costume.

So similar and, in my opinion, not typical for the Dom route things (Kane is naked, and the others females are not), which are more typical for the Sub route, personally mislead me. Well, we'll see what this "Dom" scene will be like.

This is the full context. Rest of pod 4 getting stepped on while Kane is getting sucked off. Totally can see it as a Dom scene despite him being naked. It was just the Alessandra/angelica kissing scene that looked S-sub to me. Haven't seen them interact in pure Dom path so far, but sure I guess Angelica moves fast*shrug*
Edit: proper image

 

[The_Man_With_No_Name]

Since the update I guess webp files don't easily upload anymore. Only jpeg and png. Oh well.

 

[Stan5851]

Haven't seen them interact in pure Dom path so far, but sure I guess Angelica moves fast*shrug*

Yeah, we haven't seen any significant sexual interact with Angelica yet..I'll be honest, I'm not at all interested in watching her stomp on Jake, and I'd rather see her (rather than Chloe) kneeling in front of Kane. It's high time she started proving her loyalty and usefulness to Kane, not entertaining Alessa and Olivia.

 

[CollectorTivan]

Some of you guys really gonna die in anticipation of what and what will not happen to poor Kane, but if you do get to the end it seems like you are going to accept it however it is and not going to protest even a lil bit because I have never seen anyone of you guys protest even a little bit of the direction of the game whether you say you are a dom player or a sub player while I can clearly see in the Dom side Kane would be atmost Complicit with Karlssons rather than Dominating the Karlssons which should be the reward for the Dom Kane at the end instead of Becoming the Karlsson himself and Dominating the Insignificant with other Karlssons.