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The primary theme of “Love Game,” says director Michael DiNardo, is self-improvement.

A production like “Love Game,” a romantic comedy timed for Valentine’s Day and equally influenced by reality television and dating-simulator video games, is relatively rare.

“What we get to do is touch on all the different genres and realms of worlds where you can play, whether that’s been sci-fi or postapocalyptic, or fantasy with pirates, or more modern realistic with ‘Love Game,’” DiNardo says.

And now, with “Love Game,” L.A. has a show for Valentine’s Day season.

Let’s just say I wasn’t the most successful of matchmakers, but “Love Game” offers numerous quests — we can attempt to increase the flirtation among actors by setting up karaoke sessions or can opt instead to chat with an in-show bartender, receiving a less scientific love analysis.