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

[Stan5851]

In any other VN, I would agree with you 100%, but hey, this is KG, and the developer is Tess with some fetishes. Different rules and standards apply here.

That's why I said Kiyomi treated Seth "lovingly."

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[Bloker997]

Da fuk is happening with this game? No Kiyomi, no Celeste, so Phoebe is most likely gone too, like wtf?

 

[MilesEdgeworth]

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Not surprisingly Astrid is the only notable person not around the Karlssons so its hard to corupt her. Sure, Kane and Olivia can also be good depending on how they're played, but they too can be said to not be around the karlssons long enough to get corrupted.

 

[PickerLewd]

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Corporate Development Memo 18th of May 2025

Hi everyone!

It's a late Sunday night for me and I'm relaxing with some herbal tea as I write a nice update before getting some sleep

1) First of all, the basic update:

I did another 105 renders and finalized some animations I liked and basically as of right now, I think we're at 1,471 renders and 33 animations.

I did mostly dom side work this week because I wanted to think more about the next sub scene. One of the scenes above being pictured is probably not going to be seen by a ton of players. (it has two positive flags and two negative flags meaning all of them need to exist to get the scene) My advice on this specifically is try to have a save with only the revolution unlocked but without any heavy side activities or an evil Olivia (I recommend a good Olivia) (without action with Celeste and/or a few others).

2) Steam

Not pushing hard updates as much because it's kind of a side thing when time permits, but Russian and Portuguese are closer to being done. Chinese is progressing but the person helping me out is not as familiar with the Renpy program so it is a manual process transferring text from one document into Renpy directly. So this is more time consuming, but it is the language that is a "must" for me to have to release.

I will be talking about this a lot more as I am closer, but just kind of mentioning it here.

3) I am kind of thinking now that I might want to get to about 2200 renders or so based on my outline versus 2000 but I am going to still try and shorten it and keep it tight as much as possible.

4) Polls

I will release a new poll next week basically asking all of you if you want a few options for further content:

A) Stick with very strict/tight 30 render dom/sub polls and work.

B) Do what I like but it may end up being more like 50+ renders (I will try really hard to avoid how bad it was this time around)

C) Just focus on the game and ignore polls until the next update is out.

I'm pretty open to anything and I consider this element of my work kind of a Patron driven thing and will adapt accordingly.

To give full context, it's fair to say that each render I work on polls is roughly the same amount I lose in time for the game. So for example -- if I do 100 renders in a week, 50 poll renders would likely mean 50 game renders for that given week. It's a pretty fair approximation.

5) My short trip I talked about is coming very soon -- just a graduation ceremony for my cousin in Nevada! I'm very excited to see her give a great speech and move on to her college studies! Unlike me, she did not grow up with a ton of advantages so I'm really proud of her! It may impact renders a tad bit, but I usually write a lot more when I travel so it should even out!

I hope everyone is having a great week/month/year! I am starting to ramp up some real life stuff a bit more and we've formalized our final wedding/honeymoon stuff all out now! It's a HUGE relief to kind of get that all wrapped up for the most part. Our parents aren't too thrilled it's not the most elaborate thing ever with 500+ guests (neither of us are wired that way and want it smaller and more intimate) but we're both really happy with it and much prefer blowing money to visit our shared dream destination for a honeymoon! (keep in mind I am likely to pause billing for this month) Now if someday Anais ever got married...I would expect a literal circus (love ya girl!)

Please have a great week all!

I'm so thankful and happy right now and I am full of pure gratitude and appreciation for everyone that supports the game and just for life in general

Love,

Tess

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[Piratefishes]

Love,

Tess

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Love the name of the pictures. :-D

 

[PickerLewd]

Love the name of the pictures. :-D

Yes, I have to identify the images; I can't use the predefined numbering system like a bot .

 

[Stan5851]

Yes, I have to identify the images; I can't use the predefined numbering system like a bot .

PickerLewd, so was it you who named the images that way or did Tess do it? At least I like this presentation of images with humor much better.

 

[Stan5851]

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Corporate Development Memo 18th of May 2025

Hi everyone!

It's a late Sunday night for me and I'm relaxing with some herbal tea as I write a nice update before getting some sleep

1) First of all, the basic update:

I did another 105 renders and finalized some animations I liked and basically as of right now, I think we're at 1,471 renders and 33 animations.

I did mostly dom side work this week because I wanted to think more about the next sub scene. One of the scenes above being pictured is probably not going to be seen by a ton of players. (it has two positive flags and two negative flags meaning all of them need to exist to get the scene) My advice on this specifically is try to have a save with only the revolution unlocked but without any heavy side activities or an evil Olivia (I recommend a good Olivia) (without action with Celeste and/or a few others).

2) Steam

Not pushing hard updates as much because it's kind of a side thing when time permits, but Russian and Portuguese are closer to being done. Chinese is progressing but the person helping me out is not as familiar with the Renpy program so it is a manual process transferring text from one document into Renpy directly. So this is more time consuming, but it is the language that is a "must" for me to have to release.

I will be talking about this a lot more as I am closer, but just kind of mentioning it here.

3) I am kind of thinking now that I might want to get to about 2200 renders or so based on my outline versus 2000 but I am going to still try and shorten it and keep it tight as much as possible.

4) Polls

I will release a new poll next week basically asking all of you if you want a few options for further content:

A) Stick with very strict/tight 30 render dom/sub polls and work.

B) Do what I like but it may end up being more like 50+ renders (I will try really hard to avoid how bad it was this time around)

C) Just focus on the game and ignore polls until the next update is out.

I'm pretty open to anything and I consider this element of my work kind of a Patron driven thing and will adapt accordingly.

To give full context, it's fair to say that each render I work on polls is roughly the same amount I lose in time for the game. So for example -- if I do 100 renders in a week, 50 poll renders would likely mean 50 game renders for that given week. It's a pretty fair approximation.

5) My short trip I talked about is coming very soon -- just a graduation ceremony for my cousin in Nevada! I'm very excited to see her give a great speech and move on to her college studies! Unlike me, she did not grow up with a ton of advantages so I'm really proud of her! It may impact renders a tad bit, but I usually write a lot more when I travel so it should even out!

I hope everyone is having a great week/month/year! I am starting to ramp up some real life stuff a bit more and we've formalized our final wedding/honeymoon stuff all out now! It's a HUGE relief to kind of get that all wrapped up for the most part. Our parents aren't too thrilled it's not the most elaborate thing ever with 500+ guests (neither of us are wired that way and want it smaller and more intimate) but we're both really happy with it and much prefer blowing money to visit our shared dream destination for a honeymoon! (keep in mind I am likely to pause billing for this month) Now if someday Anais ever got married...I would expect a literal circus (love ya girl!)

Please have a great week all!

I'm so thankful and happy right now and I am full of pure gratitude and appreciation for everyone that supports the game and just for life in general

Love,

Tess

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I wish patrons would vote for option C. It's in everyone's best interest.

One of the scenes above being pictured is probably not going to be seen by a ton of players. (it has two positive flags and two negative flags meaning all of them need to exist to get the scene) My advice on this specifically is try to have a save with only the revolution unlocked but without any heavy side activities or an evil Olivia (I recommend a good Olivia) (without action with Celeste and/or a few others).

I wonder what images she's talking about? I'm assuming it's the scene with sakura?

 

[kinkyshin]

Damn, Veronica in that dress...

 

[minibaer12]

Yes, I hope I'm in. I have a path, the only chance the MC has yet to see Astrid!!!

 

[PickerLewd]

PickerLewd, so was it you who named the images that way or did Tess do it? At least I like this presentation of images with humor much better.

Yes, I name them so that I can remember what the image is without having to open it or view a preview.

When I try to download an image, it may have a dull name like "858.jpg", so I change it based on the first thing that springs to mind when I look at the image .

Then, once they have been uploaded here, they remain with the changed name.

I wonder what images she's talking about? I'm assuming it's the scene with sakura?

Sakura is the name I gave to the tree, the redhead is called Veronica .

 

[Stan5851]

Sakura is the name I gave to the tree, the redhead is called Veronica .

Do you honestly think I don't know that Veronica is standing next to Kane, haha? I just mentioned Sakura tree to make it easier for you to see which screenshot I'm talking about.

As for renaming the boring file names, good for you, it's much better. I think Tess should take that idea from you. Humor smooths out a lot of sharp edges and contradictions.

Damn, Veronica in that dress...

Yeah, I'm already imagining Miles diligently preparing his Dom saves to see that rare scene with the beautiful V.

 

[akki_sky]

I wonder what images she's talking about? I'm assuming it's the scene with sakura?

Yes. It looks like at path where we get scene of NOAH access instead of K1 killing with Mercy. It must be another room like that zoo. It is written A1- in one image must be floor level.

 

[PickerLewd]

I think Tess should take that idea from you. Humor smooths out a lot of sharp edges and contradictions.

I suppose giving each render a number helps her to keep track of the order of the scenes and makes programming easier.

 

[Maviarab]

As for renaming the boring file names, good for you, it's much better. I think Tess should take that idea from you. Humor smooths out a lot of sharp edges and contradictions.

I suppose giving each render a number helps her to keep track of the order of the scenes and makes programming easier.

It does PL, and she does Stan...you never really taken any real notice of her image names? They are only numbered like this when she is doing previews (or possibly as she makes them before giving them an actual scene name).

Why do you think I keep reiterating that Astrid is in Hawaii

 

[The_Man_With_No_Name]

I suppose giving each render a number helps her to keep track of the order of the scenes and makes programming easier.

Before episode 8 she did use really fun render names at times and they were often, though not always, neatly organized by scene. I have no idea how she keeps track with the new naming scheme since you have some renders for a scene separated by like 20 renders for other things. At least it shows that way when you use unren on the game files.

 

[Stan5851]

It does PL, and she does Stan...you never really taken any real notice of her image names? They are only numbered like this when she is doing previews (or possibly as she makes them before giving them an actual scene name).

Mav, precisely because I've noticed it more than once when looking at the images Tess has posted, I decided to ask PL further who the author of those funny titles is. Although, in one of the recent devlogs, where there was that image with the "racist" title, for some reason I immediately thought it was Tess's idea to troll everyone that way, but now that the jokes with the image titles kept happening, I decided to figure out what it was all about, haha.

Why do you think I keep reiterating that Astrid is in Hawaii

Mav, who are you trying to fool, I know exactly how you did it.

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[drdiver3]

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Corporate Development Memo 18th of May 2025

Hi everyone!

It's a late Sunday night for me and I'm relaxing with some herbal tea as I write a nice update before getting some sleep

1) First of all, the basic update:

I did another 105 renders and finalized some animations I liked and basically as of right now, I think we're at 1,471 renders and 33 animations.

I did mostly dom side work this week because I wanted to think more about the next sub scene. One of the scenes above being pictured is probably not going to be seen by a ton of players. (it has two positive flags and two negative flags meaning all of them need to exist to get the scene) My advice on this specifically is try to have a save with only the revolution unlocked but without any heavy side activities or an evil Olivia (I recommend a good Olivia) (without action with Celeste and/or a few others).

2) Steam

Not pushing hard updates as much because it's kind of a side thing when time permits, but Russian and Portuguese are closer to being done. Chinese is progressing but the person helping me out is not as familiar with the Renpy program so it is a manual process transferring text from one document into Renpy directly. So this is more time consuming, but it is the language that is a "must" for me to have to release.

I will be talking about this a lot more as I am closer, but just kind of mentioning it here.

3) I am kind of thinking now that I might want to get to about 2200 renders or so based on my outline versus 2000 but I am going to still try and shorten it and keep it tight as much as possible.

4) Polls

I will release a new poll next week basically asking all of you if you want a few options for further content:

A) Stick with very strict/tight 30 render dom/sub polls and work.

B) Do what I like but it may end up being more like 50+ renders (I will try really hard to avoid how bad it was this time around)

C) Just focus on the game and ignore polls until the next update is out.

I'm pretty open to anything and I consider this element of my work kind of a Patron driven thing and will adapt accordingly.

To give full context, it's fair to say that each render I work on polls is roughly the same amount I lose in time for the game. So for example -- if I do 100 renders in a week, 50 poll renders would likely mean 50 game renders for that given week. It's a pretty fair approximation.

5) My short trip I talked about is coming very soon -- just a graduation ceremony for my cousin in Nevada! I'm very excited to see her give a great speech and move on to her college studies! Unlike me, she did not grow up with a ton of advantages so I'm really proud of her! It may impact renders a tad bit, but I usually write a lot more when I travel so it should even out!

I hope everyone is having a great week/month/year! I am starting to ramp up some real life stuff a bit more and we've formalized our final wedding/honeymoon stuff all out now! It's a HUGE relief to kind of get that all wrapped up for the most part. Our parents aren't too thrilled it's not the most elaborate thing ever with 500+ guests (neither of us are wired that way and want it smaller and more intimate) but we're both really happy with it and much prefer blowing money to visit our shared dream destination for a honeymoon! (keep in mind I am likely to pause billing for this month) Now if someday Anais ever got married...I would expect a literal circus (love ya girl!)

Please have a great week all!

I'm so thankful and happy right now and I am full of pure gratitude and appreciation for everyone that supports the game and just for life in general

Love,

Tess

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Thanks for sharing. The ongoing scenes of a passive Kane being brought along to female NPC activities of choice are beginning to feel overplayed. Why are we getting a scene of "dom" Kane idly watching as female characters amuse themselves with male K1-4s when we have yet to see any hint of him actually being involved in the game show independently?

We are basically at the end of the supposed game show episode trilogy, and dom Kane has yet to have any fun scenes actually engaging with female game show participants. If Tess isn't going to include evil Kane gameshow scenes (is that fun only for female NPCs on the sub route?) then she should at least be focusing this update on Kane's interactions with his pod and the VIPs. Including a scene with Katsumi tormenting people below her again feels like it does little for the narrative or character development given that we have already had plenty of these.

 

[The_Man_With_No_Name]

Thanks for sharing. The ongoing scenes of a passive Kane being brought along to female NPC activities of choice are beginning to feel overplayed. Why are we getting a scene of "dom" Kane idly watching as female characters amuse themselves with male K1-4s when we have yet to see any hint of him actually being involved in the game show independently?

We are basically at the end of the supposed game show episode trilogy, and dom Kane has yet to have any fun scenes actually engaging with female game show participants. If Tess isn't going to include evil Kane gameshow scenes (is that fun only for female NPCs on the sub route?) then she should at least be focusing this update on Kane's interactions with his pod and the VIPs. Including a scene with Katsumi tormenting people below her again feels like it does little for the narrative or character development given that we have already had plenty of these.

Sub Kane should be maneuvering about trying to find a mistress to latch onto and Dom Kane needs to start getting the ability to have some control and do some management. You know, what was implied to be what was going to happen at promotion evaluation before the Kitty gameshow sideshow. Last update we got some indication that this was still the intention, but I'll be glad once this gameshow nonsense comes to an end.

 

[Stan5851]

I have to admit (once again) that the Dom scene (0.8.2) with Juliette, Dominique, Mercy, Dr. Chastain and our first personal and beautiful harem slave, was pretty good and quite promising for a dramatically wiser and already more proactive Kane. However, I agree that we need more scenes of Kane having fun with the show's female contestants or V.I.P. guests/Karlsson sisters while learning about personnel management, etc., an not just starring as an observer of sadistic bitches abusing men we don't care about at all.

The only thing I can surmise is that this future "contemplation scene" might be important for the sole reason that the blond male slave is none other than the super hacker we need to save if we want to follow the path of the Revolution.

On the other hand, we knew there would be scenes like this when we agreed with Kitty to help her run the show...Obviously, since the show revolves mostly around the survival of slaves/male prisoners, we're going to be involved simply because it's one way to test us and our character and morals.

It's obvious, after all, that in the show's finale, Olivia and the Board will be evaluating our Dom Kane actions not just because of how well he fucked them in their pussies, but also because of the decisions Kane made regarding the fates of those particular contestants on the show. But overall, yes, we need more scenes with our WPod girls and desperately need serious big scenes with Angelica, which we still don't have.