RenPy might be a bit more popular than NationStates. We know about 16 links to it since March 2021 and only 12 links to NationStates. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
You might be interested in nationstates.net, whose primary shtick is geopolitical roleplay on the forums. Source: 11 months ago
Sorta. It's similar to http://nationstates.net. Source: almost 2 years ago
That would be quickly exploited by people who know how to make bot accounts and control them on large scales. It would turn into nationstates.net raids in mere days. Source: about 2 years ago
The closest thing I've done is to mock up some nationstates.net -like dilemmas for my players when they were running a castle and started attracting settlers. Source: about 2 years ago
This is our Reddit. We are a small region at nationstates.net. We are hoping to expand with social media. Check out our region at https://www.nationstates.net/region=the_region_of_worshipping_doggos. Source: about 2 years ago
Food for thought: I have started, stopped, rewrote, given up, and restarted development of a visual novel engine over and over again. My vision is something kind of like Ren'Py[1] but with cross-device game saves, cleaner packaging, improved DRM, better support for complex nonlinear plot development, and better tools for developing game mechanics that go beyond clicking through paragraphs of text. A... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago
This marks the second phase of my expedition into the realm of Artificial Intelligence, the realm of Stable Diffusion, and the intricate domain of Ren’py. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago
Haven't used it but I hear nothing but good things about Ren'Py for Visual Novels. Source: 10 months ago
You could also try download Renpy 8.1 from the renpy.org to see if that helps if it is something with that copy of Renpy 8.0.3. Source: 10 months ago
You mentioned that your interests lay in more story/narrative roles? Get yourself a good book on Narrative Design, grab Ink+Unity or, better yet, Ren'py (renpy.org) and get to making some Narrative Games! Show your skills in not only writing but implementation. Source: 11 months ago
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