textadventures.co.uk might be a bit more popular than RenPy. We know about 20 links to it since March 2021 and only 16 links to RenPy. 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.
Although I've been a fan of playing Text Adventures since I was a youngen, I've never dabbled in trying to create one of my own before. Recently I've been teaching myself how to use Quest 5 to create my own sci-fi adventure that's set on an abandoned spaceship. Stereotypical concept granted but I'm fascinated with most things sci-fi. I've just uploaded a demo onto textadventures.co.uk and would love any feedback... Source: about 1 year ago
I think Quest (the program available at textadventures.co.uk) works that way, inserting objects, descriptions and connections through a menu with no coding. It doesn't have the flexibility of Inform, TADS, etc., but it might a good option for what you're looking for. Source: over 1 year ago
And, just for fun, here's a piece of free gaming software: Quest, a little program that lets you make your own old-school text based adventure games. Source: over 1 year ago
And I'm pretty sure there's a ton out there. Http://textadventures.co.uk/. Source: over 1 year ago
You may also play the game at textadventures.co.uk by going to this link: http://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/mieqf0ssskw-ecq102rfag/living-a-lie. Source: over 1 year 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: 12 months ago
Twine - Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.
Ink by Inkle - ink is a popular open source scripting language for branching stories, designed for writers
Godot Engine - Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.
Lectrote - A portable Interactive Fiction games interpreter application
Unity - The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
Playfic - Playfic is an online community that lets you write, remix, share, and play interactive text-based...