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Bob De Schutter
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Professor at Northeastern University • award-winning indie game dev • PhD in game design, aging, motivation & learning • helps game devs to be mindful of older players
You're going to love the game my team is currently working on. Unfortunately, it'll be another year until we are ready to share, but the prototype is doing great and a perfect fit. Great article!
August 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
To clarify, a "bigger fraction" here means 1%, as 49% of US gamers are 35+ year olds and 28% are 50+ year olds.
August 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Yeah, World of Warships is also doing well in that demographic. They've done a GDC talk about it. gdcvault.com/play/1029081...
July 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
With Alan Alda being 89 years old, it's probably now or never.
July 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Love how it picks up the pace as you keep firing. Awesome work!
June 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Cool, I'll check it out. My favorite has been Gaming with Doc's Satisfactory vids, but that's really more of interest if you're into that game.
June 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Any specific 65+ year old gamers you're following online?
June 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
More like Metroidlameia 😂
April 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I'm not sure that this poll says a lot about American scientists. The scientific community in the US is a diverse one with a lot of non-citizens as well as folks who are feeling targeted for reasons unrelated to their nationality. Nature should probably be above this kind of clickbait.
March 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
With over a hundred million active 40+ year old gamers in the US alone, I don't think that folks are not having fun playing them. There is some research talking about them wanting more innovation and less derivative games, though.
March 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Stages and levels. Never heard boards.
March 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
It looks great. I'm excited. More than the remake despite the original being one of my all time favorite games.
March 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Just a little pinch, they said
March 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Looking forward to reading about your research. Sounds interesting.
March 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Thanks! That's exactly the kind of perspective needed to keep us "first timers" going.
March 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I always expect Pelinka to sound like Lowe when he is about to speak and it surprises me every time when he doesn't sound like him in the slightest.
February 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM