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

[MilesEdgeworth]

Thanks for reminding me that after the game show the women are supposedly actually going to get into conflict with each other, past this "Real Housewives of South Africa" drama we've had so far. Up till now it's basically been a libertine playground.

Are all the sisters getting training from Kiyomi? I think Alessandra and Olivia mention training but I don't remember on the others. What kinds of weapons do they have? Dominique knows her way around whips and so does Jules. If guns come into play, we've seen Jules might be a decent shot but I'm just inferring that from the one scene at the barn. It's a hell of a lot harder to hit a moving target in a life or death situation.

I believe that Alessandra and Veronica are the only ones that get training from kiyomi and no weapons, nothing but the clothes on their back.

Problems with Veronica:

1) She makes the other romantic options for Kane seem inferior.

You spelled superior wrong.

 

[Stan5851]

apparently im in a fighting mood.

Alexander puts all his daughters in a cage and makes them engage in a winner-takes-all fight. Who comes out of that cage?

I would bet on Olivia, who learned to fight in the temple from a very young age. But if not including Liv, then V will win as the strongest (imo) fighter among the Karlsson sisters who trained under Kiyomi.

 

[MilesEdgeworth]

I would bet on Olivia, who learned to fight in the temple from a very young age. But if not including Liv, then V will win as the strongest (imo) fighter among the Karlsson sisters who trained under Kiyomi.

You forget that Veronica has a huge liability in that fight with Astrid there. But yes without the liability it would be a different story.

 

[Stan5851]

You forget that Veronica has a huge liability in that fight with Astrid there. But yes without the liability it would be a different story.

You didn't specify when this “cage fight” might take place. As for Astrid, I think she would refuse to fight against her sisters. This girl is too good for this world..And she didn't just rebel against Alexander on a whim; something like that doesn't happen at the snap of your fingers. This means that Astrid has been working toward this for a long time, and her resentment toward what her father is doing to his daughters has been growing. And V loves Astrid very much, so if such a fight were to take place in the game, I would bet that she would protect Astrid at any cost (even at the cost of her own life).

 

[MilesEdgeworth]

You didn't specify when this “cage fight” might take place. As for Astrid, I think she would refuse to fight against her sisters. This girl is too good for this world..And she didn't just rebel against Alexander on a whim; something like that doesn't happen at the snap of your fingers. This means that Astrid has been working toward this for a long time, and her resentment toward what her father is doing to his daughters has been growing. And V loves Astrid very much, so if such a fight were to take place in the game, I would bet that she would protect Astrid at any cost (even at the cost of her own life).

In this hypothetical, they don't have a choice, he's throwing all his kids in the cage for his sick amusement. Veronica protecting Astrid at all costs is why I call Astrid a liability for Veronica because the other sisters will use it.

 

[Stan5851]

Problems with Veronica:

2) She is completely unrealistic. How many brilliant scientists devote their entire lives for one tiny scientific discovery? Meanwhile Veronica is in her mid twenties and has a massive scientific breakthrough every other week WHILE she is running one of the biggest companies on the planet. I mean, I'm not a person of science but there's only a few people who have won 2 nobel prizes... Veronica is in her mid twenties and would have like 50 of them already.. and in different fields too lol.

V is one of Tess's favorite characters, and I think her "super genius" is just a game convention to help us appreciate the scale of V's personality. Plus, this character plays an important role in her plans for other games, so that could have influenced too how Veronica turned out. (imo)
In my entire giant lore of seven connected games in my head, Veronica Karlsson is a giant figure that impacts way beyond KG.

3) The way she talks is beyond weird. There's Asperger's and then there's whatever the fuck she has.

I don't quite understand what you mean, but if you are referring to her aloofness and a certain asociality, the reasons for this were explained to us in 0.8.2.

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[kinkyshin]

I don't quite understand what you mean, but if you are referring to her aloofness and a certain asociality, the reasons for this were explained to us in 0.8.2.

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I'm aware... but that's not what I meant. According to Kane and Cole, Veronica supposedly speaks like Callista. Since there's no reason to assume that Callista's childhood was anything like Veronica's and yet they are both supposed to be near-superhuman geniuses, I think we can safely conclude that Veronica's odd way of speaking isn't due to her childhood but rather her genius intellect.

As far as I know, you can listen to interviews of any brilliant scientist and they don't talk like that. But Veronica isn't supposed to be just a brilliant scientist, she's supposed to be a near-superhuman genius of the likes that humanity has never seen before. Who can really say how someone like that would actually speak? I don't know, but I don't think Tess knows either. I think most of the dialogue that Tess writes for Veronica feels fine, but sometimes it comes off as just plain goofy. Not like a superhuman genius, but like someone trying to sound like a superhuman genius.

 

[PickerLewd]

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Corporate Development Memo 20 July 2025

Hi everyone!

This week was an unusually busy week for design and I had to prioritize it a lot this week including a short trip to Los Angeles for about 36 hours (literally fly there, meetings, fly back pretty much after one night).

Total renders this week: 98 images and 5-6 more animations done

Total overall: 2,393 renders

Secret sub is basically done now and shifting to the dom path this week so these are kind of the last images I likely show for secret sub. I will keep on the dom side until I get where I want to be, and that leaves sub side last with a few ideas on how much I want to keep/wait depending on a lot of factors.

I have also put together a preliminary gallery function for a future Steam version of the game, the current list of "scenes" are currently at a count of about 157. (It's kind of something to realize how much work I've done over the whole game looking back heh both renders/scenes and even just word count) I will be trying to allow people to filter by dom/sub/secret sub as one option, but also with specific characters if possible. What I am not sure on yet is how locked/unlocked it should be for players. I would be curious to hear feedback on this specific issue. Like unlocked if you get to the end of Episode 7 or just unlocked as you actually find them in game? Or options to choose from a menu?

Once I get into the dom path more, I will be feeling I'm turning on the last big road towards the light at the end of the tunnel (update out). I always end up doing a bit more than I wanted with render count, but I'm trying hard to be tight with things to get it out, etc. I appreciate the patience and support!

I am trying to arrange time in August to kind of "sprint" towards a faster pace which may give a clue where I think I am overall. I am always reluctant to give an estimated date before I am more confident (also in case of problems in testing or playing it that I really want to fix) about everything but I'm getting there.

Please have a wonderful week all! Next week should have dom images for a bit and then we'll go from there

Love

Tess

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[DoverDad]

fuck Itch has just removed most NSFW stuff from its site fuck can anyone verify this?

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[The_Man_With_No_Name]

fuck Itch has just removed most NSFW stuff from its site fuck can anyone verify this?

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[Stan5851]

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What a bunch of pathetic opportunists. It's disgusting to read.

 

[mytest111]

What a bunch of pathetic opportunists. It's disgusting to read.

Blame all those "game developers" who managed to sneak in their incest child rape "games" into itch and steam.
Itch is a company. They can't make money if they can't get paid. And they won't get paid until they clean all that garbage.

Ps. why is this relevant to this thread?

 

[EnigmaticChap]

Blame all those "game developers" who managed to sneak in their incest child rape "games" into itch and steam.
Itch is a company. They can't make money if they can't get paid. And they won't get paid until they clean all that garbage.

Ps. why is this relevant to this thread?

Itch is popular precisely because of porn games and I doubt they weren't making more money because of it. Removing it is double edged sword for that site because people with money who went there for porn games won't be going there anymore and I agree it's because of those devs who sneaked in incest and rape genres but this also gives power to those corrupt credit card companies who want to ban anything they don't like which is even worse.

 

[mytest111]

Itch is popular precisely because of porn games and I doubt they weren't making more money because of it. Removing it is double edged sword for that site because people with money who went there for porn games won't be going there anymore and I agree it's because of those devs who sneaked in incest and rape genres but this also gives power to those corrupt credit card companies who want to ban anything they don't like which is even worse.

Porn is not the problem. Once they review the games for incest/child rape/etc and ban whatever is need, the "clean" porn games will be indexed again.

 

[Maviarab]

Ps. why is this relevant to this thread?

If you must know, and you failed to realise, not a single scene on the Sub Path is consensual. You do understand what that means...right? The fact this is still on Patreon currently is a wonder in and of itself.

 

[mytest111]

If you must know, and you failed to realise, not a single scene on the Sub Path is consensual. You do understand what that means...right? The fact this is still on Patreon currently is a wonder in and of itself.

That means absolutely nothing. Unless I missed the incest and child abuse.....

 

[Maviarab]

That means absolutely nothing. Unless I missed the incest and child abuse.....

Non consent games are also being targeted, and have been by Patreon for quite some time.

Do keep up.

 

[mytest111]

Non consent games are also being targeted, and have been by Patreon for quite some time.

Do keep up.

Define non consent.
Playing a loser who deliberately gets himself into compromising situations? Or playing a rapist who rapes his whole family?
Both count the same to you?

 

[_Sen _]

What happens in Joy Facility is definitely non-consent. I don't remember Kane signing in any of sort of consent form before participating in any of the numerous games he was a part of. Hell, he was blackmailed and coreced into joining the program. What about the other slaves who were killed by Juliette, Mercy, Charlotte etc? They all gave consent while in a safe and sound state of mind?

And if your point is that player deliberately got Kane into those situations, how do you defend Olivia? She can be played as someone who abuses and kills people. Did the slaves provide consent before being fed to the lions?

There's plenty of disturbing things in this game for someone to target if they want to.

 

[Maviarab]

Define non consent.

Sighs

Shouldn't you be in bed by now?