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BYONDBased on our record, RenPy seems to be a lot more popular than BYOND. While we know about 16 links to RenPy, we've tracked only 1 mention of BYOND. 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.
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: 12 months ago
I fell for this when I was a kid on Byond. The idea guy thought he was J. R. R. Tolkien. My sprite artist friend joined me. He was vague about what he wanted and even though we had been making everything he asked of us he brought another coder in, a couple years younger than me, I was a teen and he was 13. When he was given my code he called me boring and started throwing together some stuff. He ended up writing... Source: almost 3 years ago
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