VN Ren'Py Karlsson's Gambit [v0.8.31 TestB] [Grym Gudinna Games]

[Igetby]

Man, Dominique's bullshit excuses for her sadism in her "good" path were really disgusting. Even insulting.
There's no way to redeem that bitch. At least Juliette's honest about her nature.

The further the story develops the more Juliete gets explained and Domonique just sounds more "super evil" for super evil sake.

 

[Igetby]

yea the game is getting really big which likely means not only will we lose certain paths, but will also likely lose the ability to kill characters during the game since that would create a need for even more renders.

Was acknowledged earlier this year around three paths were no longer in the picture.

 

[Don Sucio]

Her Initial plan for episode 8 is three parts. 8.1, 8.2, 8.3.
Both 8.1 & 8.2 released as whole parts. But, she changed plans and divided 8.3 into two parts namely 8.3.1 & 8.3.2.
8.3.1 (test version) is released, soon she will release 8.3.1 final release.
And god knows when she will develop and release 8.3.2 (which intended to the last part of episode 8).

Mhm, I don't like when devs divide chapters into many parts , it feels...disrupted.
I mean, she is spliting three parts into more parts

The amount of renders must be enormous?

 

[harsha_26]

Mhm, I don't like when devs divide chapters into many parts , it feels...disrupted.
I mean, she is spliting three parts into more parts

The amount of renders must be enormous?

My blind guess (might be wrong) is.. She got stuck in the storytelling. She knows her destiny (planned factions and endings already), but lost the path to destiny and going round in circles.

 

[f96zonetrooper]

My blind guess (might be wrong) is.. She got stuck in the storytelling. She knows her destiny (planned factions and endings already), but lost the path to destiny and going round in circles.

It's more : ... getting lost in details ...

Every meaningful choice adds additional effort ...

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[harsha_26]

It's more : ... getting lost in details ...

Every meaningful choice adds additional effort ...

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Wow, thanks for telling me that this game never going to be completed lol. Very sad.

 

[Merlin-Magic]

My blind guess (might be wrong) is.. She got stuck in the storytelling. She knows her destiny (planned factions and endings already), but lost the path to destiny and going round in circles.

My blind guess (might be wrong) is.. She got stuck in the storytelling. She knows her destiny (planned factions and endings already), but lost the path to destiny and going round in circles.

I think you are both right. Adding each path increases the complexity almost exponentially. This creates it's own problems, but if you loose focus in your writing, all these paths become nearly impossible to resolve. You cannot figure out where to continue with the story, because you have created too many possibilities. While the player is only dealing with possibly one or two paths, the developer has to maintain a story with all of those paths. If you are not 110% focused, you loose your ability to maintain almost any path to get to the final destination. Your story lines begin to fall apart and start to go in circles.

 

[MilesEdgeworth]

yea, she has her traditional story, which is easy and straightforward. However then she has to then split up the non traditional part of the story into dom and sub. Then she has to split those two paths up according to levels. Its easy to see how the story can get out of hand from what one planned.
If Im not mistaken her original plan was for 14 endings, that's pretty much impossible with a one person operation.

 

[motseer]

yea, she has her traditional story, which is easy and straightforward. However then she has to then split up the non traditional part of the story into dom and sub. Then she has to split those two paths up according to levels. Its easy to see how the story can get out of hand from what one planned.
If Im not mistaken her original plan was for 14 endings, that's pretty much impossible with a one person operation.

You guys are leaving out one major loophole. This is a story that easily allows Tess an out by killing, trading or selling a few people. Heh, Jus' Sayin'

 

[NoX Productions]

I'm personally going to wait until the entire ep8 is out at least, which might be a while from the looks of it

 

[PickerLewd]

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Corporate Development Memo 16 November 2025

Hi everyone!

First, I've updated the post with the Test Version to the $15 (Olivia harem tier). It's not a huge amount of people at that tier, but I wanted to get the test version out to them!

Second, I am working diligently on the Final Version now and some updates on that... I did take a good three days off from the game to recover and also catch up on a lot of other stuff for the wedding and design business, etc. But I should be in a much better position this week to grind out a lot! I've usually taken a week off so I'm feeling kind of motivated!

Final Version update:

I have inserted animations into the game. I had many more than I remembered and I started out with about 210 of them and weeded them down to about 154 animations that are currently in the Final Version. I may run through them again and try and be critical, but I'm getting convinced to not be as harsh on cutting every animation that bothers me and that players are a bit more forgiving. But I still may run another cut but this should still end up being the most animations in an update as I think about 100+ or so was in the 8.2 version. I think that had close to 5000 renders and 100ish animations.

I am in the middle of one of the new two sub scenes and it should be done later this week. It's an optional scene and I will place warnings in it, etc. I think Test Version players know which scene I mean.

I have done half of the outro (it's split in two locations but shorter than the manifesto of the last update) just to close out the game. I know it's not that important to a lot players but for me it's a big deal to be able to thank people that give me positive energy and help for the game, etc.

I've set up a basic structure of the Game 6 room and have written about half of the scene now. I may start on this scene next or shift to the dom side depending on how I feel after finishing the current scene.

There's a bit more content this time between Test --> Final so I may need an extra week from my normal goals but we'll see. I think I am in pretty good shape since I didn't rest the whole week but did some work, etc.

I hope everyone that has tried the game is having fun!

(And Anais is still asking for feedback on the character Lily for The Quantum Academy -- mostly just the face/body as hair and a bunch of other things are easy to switch, etc).

I will keep this kind of short so I can rest and get up and work on stuff this week as much as possible! Thank you all!

Love,

Tess

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[minibaer12]

...I know it's not that important to a lot players but for me it's a big deal to be able to thank people that give me positive energy and help for the game, etc...

This sentence says it all! My beloved and loyal sub-players!

 

[harsha_26]

This sentence says it all! My beloved and loyal sub-players!

I mean, at this point, I don't know why she is developing dom paths at all (especially evil dom). I mean, I love her story and the potential of dom paths the story demands to. That's why I still here. But, she clearly prefers sub fanbase because it is easy to do whatever she wants (her natural core sense is femdom anyway) in the sub path and sub fans will obey to it like they always do.

 

[Rake Tyler]

I'm playing this update just out of anxiety because I've already seen that things are missing, including a scene with Olivia. In the update, she says he didn't show romantic interest in her, so she wasn't going to take him somewhere. I thought that was strange, so I went back to the part where you choose your interest and selected the option, but she still said that. That's when I realized it was the version that doesn't have that scene yet. I'll watch it when the version is complete.

 

[harsha_26]

Please somebody (atleast the secret tess supporters who are watching this thread) make a note on bugs found by players shared in this thread and send them to tess. It will be helpful to all of us yes, but also helpful for her patreon supporters who waiting for final bug free version.

 

[pudsub]

any bad ending in the update?

 

[minibaer12]

I mean, at this point, I don't know why she is developing dom paths at all (especially evil dom). I mean, I love her story and the potential of dom paths the story demands to. That's why I still here. But, she clearly prefers sub fanbase because it is easy to do whatever she wants (her natural core sense is femdom anyway) in the sub path and sub fans will obey to it like they always do.

My initial impression was that this update was boring. However, my route allocation turned out to be spot on:

1-1 Dom/Good, Sponsored by Dominique
1-2 Dom/Good, Sponsored by Veronica
1-3 Dom/Good Revolution
1-4 Dom/Good Revolution Special (Screw everyone and everything)
1-5 Dom/Evil, Sponsored by Juliette

The last two routes are really something else. They reveal surprising insights in scenes you don't usually see. What puzzles me, though, is that Cole and Callista don't receive a message from Veronica on the CANON ROUTE, only on the REVOLUTION ROUTE!

 

[minibaer12]

I'm playing this update just out of anxiety because I've already seen that things are missing, including a scene with Olivia. In the update, she says he didn't show romantic interest in her, so she wasn't going to take him somewhere. I thought that was strange, so I went back to the part where you choose your interest and selected the option, but she still said that. That's when I realized it was the version that doesn't have that scene yet. I'll watch it when the version is complete.

You're probably referring to the scene just before the meal. I looked at the condition using URM: Olivia absolutely has to be Dom/Evil, and at least two of the three required variables must be true!

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[Silent_Dreamer]

You're probably referring to the scene just before the meal. I looked at the condition using URM: Olivia absolutely has to be Dom/Evil, and at least two of the three required variables must be true!

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yeah you need to be on evil path for her to take you to the injustice room

 

[harsha_26]

My initial impression was that this update was boring. However, my route allocation turned out to be spot on:

1-1 Dom/Good, Sponsored by Dominique
1-2 Dom/Good, Sponsored by Veronica
1-3 Dom/Good Revolution
1-4 Dom/Good Revolution Special (Screw everyone and everything)
1-5 Dom/Evil, Sponsored by Juliette

The last two routes are really something else. They reveal surprising insights in scenes you don't usually see. What puzzles me, though, is that Cole and Callista don't receive a message from Veronica on the CANON ROUTE, only on the REVOLUTION ROUTE!

Veronica is supportive for revolution. It is her back up plan always, same as Callista. And her mother and sister are one of the leaders of revolution. So, I'm not surprised at all and its foreshadowed in game mutiple times. My only issue is, if she is hell bent on good gambit or revolution, why she doesn't let go of her femdom attitude with kane and treat him as a truly equal atleast in her private scenes in dom routes? Like you see Good Dominique.