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Bungie developers were apparently very passionate about a Destiny dating simulator, but leadership had no interest.
Former Bungie community member Liana Ruppert dropped this piece of trivia on players after seeing a fan expressing interest in a Destiny dating sim.
“Fun fact, the team actually made one, but leadership [gave a] very hard no [and felt] that nobody wanted romance or silliness. Very Dream Daddy inspired. It was fun getting to be a small part of it.”
Former Bungie senior narrative designer Robert Brookes chimed in, revealing that the concept came out of an event where the studio was allowed to prototype fun side projects for a week. However, a small group of devs continuously tried to scale it into a full-blown project.
“To be fair, the dating sim that was made was a part of the ‘Carnival’ event Bungie used to do, where devs had a week to make fun prototypes. So it was never a full-fledged project. That said, we did pitch that as a full-fledged project every year.”
Brookes also noted that two of the people who were behind the pitch came from romance game design, saying they even created a pitch deck with costs and metrics,
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