How Later Daters makes the case that life is sweeter after 60

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Later Daters is a game about dating and companionship in a retirement community. It’s not some doom and gloom tale about romance at the end of your days, though; it’s an exploration of the passion, change, fun, and often-untold stories of life that happen as you’re experiencing your later years.

Game Developer sat down with the team at Bloom Digital Media, the creators of the game, to talk about the compelling storylines they were able to explore specifically because of their older cast, how they worked to tell realistic stories about dating as we age, and how creating the game helped them get in touch with family members and themselves in some surprising ways.

Later Daters is a game of retirement romance. What interested you in exploring dating life as an octogenarian? What inspired the creation of this title?

Miriam Verburg, executive producer: I have always been interested in stories that come from transitional periods. Our first game, LongStory, was about that very awkward time in a person's life when they realize there are so many different levels to friendship and romance—that they have the capacity to share love with people in a variety of ways and that they need to learn to communicate their desires and it's terribly embarrassing.

Usually, that time is around the early teen years, but as we worked on LongStory I also learned about something called Queer Time. The idea of Queer Time is that queer people (a cohort I identify with) don't always experience life milestones at the expected time. Having your life milestones arrive at the "correct" time is called Chrononormativity, a word that I love, and which as soon as I heard I was like, "OH I AM NOT CHRONO-NORMATIVE." It was like a bunch of little things fell into