One of our favorite ways to incorporate Storyline blocks in Rise is to create Learning portals.
Since our L&D team is relatively young, and intentional learning is a new endeavor for our organization, we are yet to invest in a full blown LMS. So, as a way to create interactive central "portals" for our various curricula of Rise courses, we use Storyline. We simply create icons for each course and add a click trigger to the icon with a hyperlink to the Rise course. This provides us with a simple workaround for Rise not including a hyperlinked image feature.
We have attempted software simulations in Storyline blocks, but the quality of the environment is limited since there is no "full-screen" option for the learner to view the Rise block in. If that feature were added, we would use Rise block for that very frequently.