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Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator is now on Linux

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Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator [Steam], a game about a Dad looking to date another Dad is now on Linux.

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Announced on Ethan Lee's Patreon, this is the first Unity title to be ported by Mr Lee, who usually focuses on porting XNA games using his FNA project.

About the game:

Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator is a game where you play as a Dad and your goal is to meet and romance other hot Dads. You and your daughter have just moved into the sleepy seaside town of Maple Bay only to discover that everyone in your neighborhood is a single, dateable Dad! Will you go out with Teacher Dad? Goth Dad? Bad Dad? Or any of the other cool Dads in this game? With minigames, sidequests, and a variety of paths and endings, Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator is this year's most anticipated Dad-based game.

I think my favourite listed feature is this "So many Dad puns. Like, to the point where it made us all uncomfortable" — hah!

It released for Windows in July, so it hasn't actually been out all that long. Since release, it seems to have gained rather positive reviews.

It's a dating simulator so it's not my type of thing, but hopefully some of you might appreciate this now being on Linux.

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Liam Dawe Sep 26, 2017
To ignore/block someone: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/usercp.php?module=block_list

I will look to add a quick icon to posts to help.
Eike Sep 26, 2017
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Quoting: liamdaweI will look to add a quick icon to posts to help.

The second place I was looking at was the user profile in question.
Liam Dawe Sep 26, 2017
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Quoting: liamdaweI will look to add a quick icon to posts to help.

The second place I was looking at was the user profile in question.
Another good idea :) expect it tonight.
namiko Sep 26, 2017
Quoting: iiariThis is how you know that Linux gaming has arrived... When the genre, odd, off-beat, WTF games arrive. I remember the Windows freeware scene and shareware gaming scene of the late 80's and early 90's and it was filled with titles like this.

The "scene" this game belongs to is actually quite old. One of the reasons Dating Sims and Visual Novels are getting more attention is that more of these games are on Steam now. The Ren'py engine also helped to put these genres on the map for Linux. Ren'py engine games were capable of being easily ported to Linux, Mac and Windows from the first public build because of the Python 2 base.

There are hundreds of these games out there already, free to download from repositories like https://games.renpy.org. For a long time these games weren't thought of as potentially profitable, even amongst the fans and creators, but once a few people found success with selling their games, it took off from there.

... And I miss late 80s/90s PC gaming. They were some of the best. Thank goodness for Wine, DOSBOX and SCUMMVM!
fabertawe Sep 26, 2017
Quoting: GuestYay! Dream daddy!
Need to bag myself the emo daddy for sure!

My sincerest apologies but I'm already spoken for :P
Liam Dawe Sep 26, 2017
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Quoting: Eike
Quoting: liamdaweI will look to add a quick icon to posts to help.

The second place I was looking at was the user profile in question.
Another good idea :) expect it tonight.
Blocking from profiles and from posts is now possible. Link at top of profiles, or the new block icon.
tuubi Sep 26, 2017
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Quoting: liamdaweBlocking from profiles and from posts is now possible. Link at top of profiles, or the new block icon.
Any way you could separate the report and block buttons from the rest a bit? I'm afraid someone might hit them by accident.


Quoting: GuestYay! Dream daddy!
Need to bag myself the emo daddy for sure!
Step one, grab Liam. Step two, apply generous amounts of eye shadow.
Kithop Sep 27, 2017
My girlfriend has been watching other people's videos of this for the past few weeks - for now she's using an older PC of mine (Core2Duo + 9800GTX, nothing fancy), running Xubuntu because - well, it came with a WinXP license, sure, but I'm not running and taking care of that. :p

Anyhow, she was super excited to see this get ported, and bought it as soon as she found out. Happy to report it seems to play flawlessly for her so far on that old machine - and yes, there are a couple hidden minigame portions that are 3D rendered, despite the game being mostly a 2D visual novel.

One reason this game's got a lot of press is because it's apparently a pet project of the Game Grumps, so if you know their type of humour, that's what you can expect here. From the bits and pieces I've seen looking over her shoulder, it genuinely does seem to be a sincere, light-hearted take. With lots of dad humour.
Dolus Sep 27, 2017
This really isn't the best place for political discussion, but there are clearly nutjobs on the left just like there are on the right.
Eike Sep 28, 2017
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Quoting: DolusThis really isn't the best place for political discussion, but there are clearly nutjobs on the left just like there are on the right.

I don't feel there's anything political about the fact there are nutjobs everywhere.
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