Alaston erämaa Suomi (Naked Wilderness Finland) depicted a dating reality show with survivalist elements. Both the contestants and the production team were portrayed by players, so some of them had significant control over the others’ game by thus taking part in the traditional GM duties. The events were filmed in reality. Based on the results of the post-game survey and our GM observations we discuss 1) how the somewhat shared GM duty really worked 2) how did the players experience their imbalance of power and 3) how did the players feel about being actually filmed. Video footage included!
Content warnings: References to sexuality, including ingame pressure to participate in dating and sexual acts