An Interview With 2old2play's Doodi

vinnie2k writes "This is an interesting interview with the founder of 2old2play.com. In it he discusses the future of gaming for older people, why we need communities like 2old2play, and how the gaming industry needs to refocus its efforts on the games it makes. Cool insight and worth the read for any older gamers."

I'm too old...

[Anonymous Coward]

...to use numbers instead of words and pluralize with a 'Z'.

funniest Article title ever!

[incubusnb]

are you serious?
"An Interview With 2old2play's Doodi"

who is this 2old2play and why are we interviewing his "Doodi"?

50 may be the new 30

[RLiegh]

but TFA makes it clear that in the gaming world; 25 is the new 60!

/.'ed

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, you're never 2old to be /.'ed!

Damn kids

[Rodness]

A 26yo declaring that anyone over 25 is "too old"? Let me be the first to stand up and yell "stupid young whippersnapper!"

*sigh* Kids these days...

Re:On getting a life

[daspriest]

Can you describe this thing you call a "life??"

Re:not too old

[CaptSnuffy]

I'm 8 years old and playing on xbox live right now screaming at my mom for some chocolate milk [google.com] You see, gaming is the one place where young and old can come together to have fun in a mature and relaxing way.

Re:Old gamers? I must be ancient.

[DragonTHC]

maybe he wants you to get rid of the stuff so he has more room around his house.

old timer finds new game

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm an old timer. I recently found a very challenging game, exciting, and fraught with risk. The game is called Automatic Transmission. Take it apart. Try to put it back together. Hope that it works. Fun.

Re:funniest Article title ever!

[jaredmcook]

I think the title really stinks, personally.

Re:Wow

[nzgeek]

I am also disappointed with the bitching here on slashdot regarding the article

I guess you're new here?

Re:I really hope

[know1]

i agree completely! i wish my father could play video games with any skill, it would give us at least one thing to talk about. however one of my uncles, i have happily spent many evenings laughing cheerfully as we killed prostitutes in GTA:San Andreas. truly, when this last gap is gone and everyone plays games, it will return to a more family time, with more leisure time spent together. i look forward to killing prostitutes with my own son/daughter (heh, just had to go back and add /daughter, guess i just learned something about my hopes for the future) in a cyber worldthat sounds like a joke but i'm deadly serious

Re:The name "Doodi"

[Anonymous Coward]

[...] and by the time their old they have two many contacts [...]

That sentence fragment makes my eyes bleed.

Re:Old gamers? I must be ancient.

[Hello Kitty]

I'm *way* the hell past college and I still get that. (Oddly enough, though, if I'm on her computer *fixing* the wretched thing, that's work!) I'm a writer, so maybe what I need to do next time I'm home is whip out a pad and pencil... better yet, I'm gonna hook up some foolscap and a quill... yeah, that'll do it. Programmers, though, hmm -- maybe an abacus? Bunch of slips of papers with ONE and ZERO written on them? Large bucket marked "BITS"?

I see a great need

[schnitzi]

EA Sports presents: "Extreme Shuffleboard".

Re:Old gamers? I must be ancient.

[Yo Grark]

In HIS defence, he spelled intoxicated wrong too, it's D-R-U-N-K and only applied liberally to the eastern & northern provinces and territories!

Geez, not all us Canadians are Hosers eh?

Yo Grark

Re:Why is this article posted?

[bigman2003]

I liked Doodi's response when they asked him when the site started..

v.: So the site opened in August 2005?
D.: Yeah, around then... it's up for debate, no one really remembers...

Dude(ie)- it's only been FIVE MONTHS! Why can't anyone remember? And besides, you're a big-time web programmer, go look at the date your first files were created.

Re:Old gamers? I must be ancient.

[incubusnb]

how do you explain Ralph Klein then?