Konado Scripts

Konado Scripts is an authoring language tailored for visual novels. Its file extension is .ks.

You can think of it as a more powerful and more structured "novel script": developers can control story dialogue, character portraits, background switching, music and sound effects, story branches, and choices without writing complex code.

Design Philosophy

The core design philosophy of Konado Script is to separate story content from program logic:

• Writers focus on narrative content without needing programming knowledge
• Programmers focus on engine development without intervening in story creation
• Resource management (images and audio) uses identifiers and is decoupled from scripts
• Modular instruction set, easy to extend with new features
• Compatible with version control systems such as Git
• Text format is naturally cross-platform
• Resource references are platform-independent

FAQ

1. Saving after a parse failure does not trigger reparsing

The console will show an error message, but saving the file will not automatically trigger reparsing. This happens because reimport was not triggered successfully.

Line 5 content: a1ctor show Kona normal at 2 5 scale 0.3
  ERROR: core/variant/variant_utility.cpp:1024 - Error: res://sample/demo/demo_01.ks [Line: 5] Parse failed: unrecognized syntax, parsing stopped: a1ctor show Kona normal at 2 5 scale 0.3 
  ERROR: Failed to process scripts
  ERROR: Error importing 'res://sample/demo/demo_01.ks'.
  ERROR: Failed loading resource: res://sample/demo/demo_01.ks.

Find the corresponding script file, right-click it, and select reimport.

2. Script file encoding issues

Make sure the script file is encoded as UTF-8, otherwise garbled text may appear. Script files created by default use UTF-8 encoding.