Kocho is a free offline visual novel maker & player which allows you to play, create and share your own visual novel games in an easy way.
With Kocho, you can be the player or the creator of simple linear stories or more complex ones with multiple choices and routes, making a reality the stories you have dreamed.
As a player you will have access to community developed stories made by visual novels and anime fans. As a creator, you have at your disposal a powerful and easy to use visual novel engine that you can use on the go.
Kocho will take care of the coding so you can focus on the story, you can customize every aspect of your novel. You can:
Overall it’s easy to understand how to create an interactive story in the app. It is useful for simple stories.
However, it’s hard to make complex stories as I cant add the same variables in different choices/scenes. Some choices lead to a similar ending/story, and it’s frustrating when it stops working when I have same variables.
Also, i recommend to add a meter/level. For example, when the number of the meter is high enough, then condition A will happen. If the number is too low, condition B will happen. I think many interactive stories are also like this.
I hope the developers will see this and make a small changes, but overall it is a good app :D I’ve made a lot of stories with it lol.
It’s Japanese no English (update)
When I open it, it’s all Japanese. Not like how they advertised as English and I have no idea about what does it mean.
Update: the problem is solved. So I guess iOS users have to turn your devices into English if the priority language on the device itself isn’t English.
At her than that , the app itself are pretty useful when you don’t know much about coding and programming. Underrated.
