{"id":84873,"date":"2026-06-23T17:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84873"},"modified":"2026-06-23T18:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:41:04","slug":"bungie-developers-repeatedly-pitched-a-destiny-dating-sim-but-leadership-rejected-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84873","title":{"rendered":"Bungie Developers Repeatedly Pitched a Destiny Dating Sim, but Leadership Rejected It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bungie developers were apparently very passionate about a Destiny<\/a> dating simulator, but leadership had no interest. <\/p>\n

Former Bungie community member Liana Ruppert<\/a> dropped this piece of trivia on players after seeing a fan expressing interest in a Destiny dating sim.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

Former Bungie senior narrative designer Robert Brookes chimed in<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

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“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.”<\/p>\n

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,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":84875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84877,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84873\/revisions\/84877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}