Analog Game Studies

This paper investigate how social design games may support interaction between lonely young adults that due to long-term loneliness need to train social skills which later can help them out of their loneliness. A leisure game was hacked based on previous fieldwork and presented for lonely young adults. The game was played and the inquiry was video-recorded with a group of attendees and the data was transcripted and analyzed within a narrative and small story approach. The findings from the data showed that social design games can help lonely young adults to train social competencies.