Or maybe a game where you input data to replicate your actual life and you can muck it up so you don't ruin your real one.. like a git repository but for real life?

So like your game but based on your real life? (become a gang lord, etc)

Of course, it's impossible.

Interesting idea! But it might end up depressing if you use it as a time machine to see where you screwed things up in your past, no?

Still, I can see promise in it!

And inputting false data could lead to some interesting experiments!

The gap itself *is* in the (lack of) female PoV dating sims.

Ahh, I totally misread! lol I agree completely.
Ah, I'd love an LGBT dating sim with a female PoV. Maybe a guy PoV option, too.

Because there's a huge gap in dating sims like that. Although "career via minigame" is currently all over the trope.

I'm mainly a console player so I wouldn't know of this "gap" you speak of.
Most, if not near all of the dating sims that I do know of are from the male point of view, too. If you can recommend some female PoV dating games, I'd be interested, though.

It's not like all the jobs in my game pitch will be minigames like diner dash, or something. I mean there'll be police/gang shootouts like more traditional sandbox games. At least the way I envision it. Or maybe shootouts with "fire" as you extinguish building fires.
There's room for action, minigames, designers.

Well, sounds neat, but'd be incredibly tedious to make.

Any reason why the protagonist has to be female?

Yeah, I'm well aware of the madness behind the idea. XD

Why not have a female protagonist?

Stuffery

So basically just real life in the future?

Well, I wouldn't call becoming a gang lord realistic. Or some sort of professional criminal. Sure it can be managed in real life, but it's hardly common.

There's "real life" elements involved yes, but I'd like to think of it as a more colorful life. A deeper, richer sandbox game, I'd say, but at it's core the sort of sandbox game we know.

I've only got a vague idea here. it won't be one line. Bear with me.

A sandbox game where you play as a female protagonist living somewhere in a city with rural areas around it. It's there you take up assorted jobs like tailor/seamstress/fashion designer, medic, police officer, fireman, military, cat burglar, gang member, gang leader, dj, club owner, professional gambler, robber, and pretty much every job that one could cram in no matter how menial, or boring, and these jobs would have some sort of mechanic like an editor for clothes, or random action based events for the fireman/police officer to intervene in, or a mixture of management ability and action game for being a gang lord, security evasion as a catburglar, or even a cake decorating game, or music mixing.
While the jobs could be fun, they also provide money/xp that allows you to augment your own abilites, like fighting, or agility, clothes, lifestyle, or what have you.

Lets have parkour included, and arcadey driving mechanics to get around the city with at the least. Crazy transportation ideas aren't barred.

And the ability to have roommates who may or may not be your choice depending on finances. Fleshed out people you have to deal with now and then.

Lets have all walks of life as relationship options. Guys and gals of varying personality types from the people you pursue, or those that'd pursue you. Lets complex it up. Cheating, gold digging as options for both, or all parties. Good people, bad people, lets not discount ideas on diversity here.

Let pregnancy factor in, too. Why not?

Maybe the game could bet set in the future. The female protagonist could have the option to be a cyborg to augment fighting, city traversal abilities, and what ever it could possibly be applied to.

The City should feel alive, and have as few truely closed off buildings as possible. There should be a variety of people doing their thing.

Minigames to keep you occupied like card games, bar games, races, and such abounds!

Maybe optional online, and local multiplayer?

Hi. I'm Rebel Raven.

Normally I don't do these sorts of things, largely because I have no interest what so ever in giving out personal information. That said, I still won't be giving out things like my name, age, origins, etc.

I was informed of this place's existance by another member.

I have near zero experience in creating games. It's to the point I may as well have no experience, really. Level editors for Starcraft, and Warlords III, and some world building in Neverwinter Nights, all largely unsuccessful, would probably sum it up.
My art talent is questionable in any medium.

How did I get introduced into gaming? I was bought an NES in my youth.

What are my passions? As far as gaming goes, right now my biggest passion is female protagonists/heroes. I'm not going to get into that more here. It's not the place for it, obviously.

What makes me tick? I'm not sure you want to know. I'm not even sure I know, thinking about it.