c/casualconversation · by ickplant@lemmy.world · 187d

My 19-year-old son has a new passion project - a dating sim where you date... bugs.

My question is… where did I go so right?

It includes characters like Daxter the Praying Mantis and Kiki the Lunar Moth, among others.

He is creating all the art (and he is damn good) and the dialogue, then his friends will help with the technical stuff.

Sure, it may never see the light of day, but I’m just proud he is doing something this weird.

That’s my boy.

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55 Comments

neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 65 pts · 187d (2 replies)

Fucking hell, that's parenting done right. If there's linux support, I'll check it out out of morbid curiosity.

ickplant@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 187d (1 reply)

Haha, thanks! Neither one of us is super techie, but his dad and friends are, so I will bring it up as a point to them.

SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 187d

He should post on here, I'm sure plenty would be eager to help! This place is full of Linux ppl

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 41 pts · 187d (14 replies)

If it's half as good as Hatoful Boyfriend, a dating VN where you date literal pigeons, I'm sure it'll be a huge hit with the bug furries and people who just love bugs.

lasta@piefed.world · 22 pts · 187d (3 replies)

It could be the next My Horse Prince!

It’s great that he’s having fun with his project though lol

ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org · 4 pts · 187d

I played that many years ago. It was wild and uncanny :D

ickplant@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 187d

Eyro_Elloyn@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 186d

Still my favorite scream of his.

ickplant@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 187d

That’s a good point, actually. One of his very close friends is a furry (although a fox, not a bug), I wonder if he served as inspo.

tal@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 187d (2 replies)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1035990/Dialtown_Phone_Dating_Sim/

Dialtown: Phone Dating Sim

If you've ever wanted to romantically pursue a phone, then hot DARN, do I have just the game for you.

All Reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive

ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org · 7 pts · 187d (1 reply)

I raise you Date everything

yuri@pawb.social · 2 pts · 187d

date everything is so impressive, i can not imagine wrangling up that many voice actors

faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 187d

Honestly, Hatoful Boyfriend was far far better than I expected going in.

grue@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 187d (4 replies)

~~I'm not sure they count as "bug furries" unless they're into bees or tarantulas specifically.~~

Edit: Never mind, I just DDG'd it and there are more fuzzy bugs than I thought.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 6 pts · 187d (3 replies)

They can even just put fuzz on the non fuzzy ones. We got furry dragons; why not furry praying mantises? 🤷‍♂️

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 187d

I think they're called scaleys or something. I can ask my godson, he experimented with therian stuff before he came out ftm

yuri@pawb.social · 2 pts · 187d

some of these guys already look like OCs even without fuzz

stray@pawb.social · 1 pts · 187d

I've never held with the idea that one has to literally be furry to be a furry. It's an umbrella term. (But by all means, make the fuzzy mantids!)

pebbles@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 187d (1 reply)

Finally a way to answer the age old question: "Would you love me if I were a worm"

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 187d

Would you love me if I got cut in half? Which half?

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 187d (1 reply)

SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 187d

Best use of this template yet

VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 187d

If he releases anything, post it here!

It's so fucking cool to see you backing his creative projects like that. I'd play it.

LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 17 pts · 187d

Damn you and your family are fucking cool.

FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 187d (1 reply)

ickplant@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 187d

How did you get my son’s Tumblr account? 😂

yuri@pawb.social · 16 pts · 187d (3 replies)

i have a vague idea for a dating sim esque game wherein you’re a factory technician and you have to date all the machines to fix them.

idk when it happened, but the meta for dating sims now is “you can just do whatever you want” and i’m SO here for it

ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 187d (1 reply)

Deep rock galactic fan creations has entered the chat

Kepion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 187d

But Doretta is just so pettable...

mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 187d

This needs to have a character that's speed dating where it's literally just the "guess we're making ___ now" meme

Ribbons@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 187d (1 reply)

Love to hear it! Hope you share more if it ever goes public, plenty of folks who'd love playing that. (It's me, I'm plenty of folks.)

ickplant@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 187d

I will absolutely share it here if when they finish it.

Tuuktuuk@nord.pub · 9 pts · 187d (2 replies)

Please make sure that all of the ass-sets of the game will be released to public if the development ever stalls!

ickplant@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 187d (1 reply)

There is a rhinoceros bug that’s a gym bro. He lifts, and he is swole. On the femme side, Kiki the moth is very elegant, and Miranda the tarantula has a pet frog.

Yes, this needs to be released to the masses. Art belongs to the people.

Little8Lost@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 187d

Pet frog for the tarantula :D

Thats the thing i hoped for after reading the headline

njm1314@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 187d (1 reply)

Is there a rolly polly?

ickplant@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 187d

There isn’t right now, but I think that should totally be an option. I shall pass it on. Should it be into polyamory so it’s a poly rolly polly?

RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 187d

If he has a Tumblr account then he's going to make a fortune.

Etterra@discuss.online · 7 pts · 187d

Dating bugs? In this economy?