Desperately needs updated
Well. I’ve now been using CYOA for about a year. If you are simply looking to try making stories or visual novels and the like, this app is a great starter. You can import custom art assets, write any genre, and the management of stories, big or small is fairly easy to use.
My problem lies in the fact that many features have broken, or have not been fixed leaving the entire playerbase with a half finished and broken app.
1. New players are only shown how to do incredibly basic things, which are already obvious from the start, such as how to change the background, add text and choices, timers and that’s about it. There is no tutorial about tags, which are used for things like tracking players name, health, keys or any variable that needs to be accounted for in a game. We are given little information on other features, aside from the fact that they’re advanced. There are no helpful official tutorials in the tutorial tab for them either.
2. A lot of the features that seem to have had functionality, as noted by older users, have since been broken and ignored. This includes many types of tags, a whole list of beta features including battle, achievements and more, as well as any music asset importation. This is just for the features in the actual story making section.
3. Broken/missing ui. It seems this app was never properly adapted to mobile screens or something, as I am missing reply features, award features and the option to delete tags. That’s just of what I know is missing.
In short, though there are the occasional uploads, it seems the developers have left us to our devices. We haven’t had an update in a year, and loads of features promised remain broken and taking up valuable screen space. Nice for something basic, but don’t expect anything insane.
My problem lies in the fact that many features have broken, or have not been fixed leaving the entire playerbase with a half finished and broken app.
1. New players are only shown how to do incredibly basic things, which are already obvious from the start, such as how to change the background, add text and choices, timers and that’s about it. There is no tutorial about tags, which are used for things like tracking players name, health, keys or any variable that needs to be accounted for in a game. We are given little information on other features, aside from the fact that they’re advanced. There are no helpful official tutorials in the tutorial tab for them either.
2. A lot of the features that seem to have had functionality, as noted by older users, have since been broken and ignored. This includes many types of tags, a whole list of beta features including battle, achievements and more, as well as any music asset importation. This is just for the features in the actual story making section.
3. Broken/missing ui. It seems this app was never properly adapted to mobile screens or something, as I am missing reply features, award features and the option to delete tags. That’s just of what I know is missing.
In short, though there are the occasional uploads, it seems the developers have left us to our devices. We haven’t had an update in a year, and loads of features promised remain broken and taking up valuable screen space. Nice for something basic, but don’t expect anything insane.
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OOphelia150
Great. Until
Love this app. Think it’d be a great tool for others. Till one day the app broke and now when reading a story there’s no text.
Please fix this
Please fix this
UFushla u ushlating the fourth
Overall, great!
I started using this app about two-ish weeks ago, so I’m still quite new to this. I’m really happy I found this though! It has basically everything that I was looking for while also working on iOS systems. You can create fairly good quality visual novels, with many different genres. There are only a few things that could make this even better.
1. I’d love it if there were more in depth tutorials. When I opened the app it gave me a VERY basic overview, but in the end I still had to look up a tutorial to get the information that I needed. It would be great if you offered tutorials on tags and their usage, battle systems, achievement's, and other complex features aside from the barebones story tools.
2. I’ve noticed that there is a limited size for projects, which means you have to be wise about how much art and sound effects you use. However, it seems that most people don’t use either as the only alternative to this is using URL’s, or they’d have to spend even more time making the art. Although I want to add sound and character sprites, I think it would be beneficial if we could test out how things work before putting in the effort of making all those sprites and whatnot ourselves. My point is, I think this app needs presets, so that everyone has the opportunity to have easily accessible resources for their stories.
3. There is a small glitch where, I would delete some of my downloaded stories, then the next time I open the app and they’re all back. I’m not sure what would cause this, but it is a little annoying. Another feature that would be nice is going to someone’s profile. When I like a game, I want to be able to see what else the creator has made!
Other than this, I haven’t had too much trouble with the app, and it has been a very pleasant experience :)
1. I’d love it if there were more in depth tutorials. When I opened the app it gave me a VERY basic overview, but in the end I still had to look up a tutorial to get the information that I needed. It would be great if you offered tutorials on tags and their usage, battle systems, achievement's, and other complex features aside from the barebones story tools.
2. I’ve noticed that there is a limited size for projects, which means you have to be wise about how much art and sound effects you use. However, it seems that most people don’t use either as the only alternative to this is using URL’s, or they’d have to spend even more time making the art. Although I want to add sound and character sprites, I think it would be beneficial if we could test out how things work before putting in the effort of making all those sprites and whatnot ourselves. My point is, I think this app needs presets, so that everyone has the opportunity to have easily accessible resources for their stories.
3. There is a small glitch where, I would delete some of my downloaded stories, then the next time I open the app and they’re all back. I’m not sure what would cause this, but it is a little annoying. Another feature that would be nice is going to someone’s profile. When I like a game, I want to be able to see what else the creator has made!
Other than this, I haven’t had too much trouble with the app, and it has been a very pleasant experience :)
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OOphelia150
Can’t create a story
The create story is at the bottom when selecting create story and doesn’t show up on iPhone, can’t scroll down to it either. When I select multiplayer, it lets me scroll and I can see the button to create, but it still doesn’t let me create
Llostdreamsandkey
Thank you.
This game (if it’s called that,) is confusing
yet fun. But not to confusing. 🙂
Thank you for making this. I didn’t know of the genre (if it is a genre,) CYOA. I’ve seen this style of story, but haven’t made my own like this before. Because of this though, I can. 🙂
yet fun. But not to confusing. 🙂
Thank you for making this. I didn’t know of the genre (if it is a genre,) CYOA. I’ve seen this style of story, but haven’t made my own like this before. Because of this though, I can. 🙂
JFJoy,Love and Faith
