This is a repost of Nathan Paoletta‘s excellent summary of the Origins 2015 data
Games on Demand is a volunteer effort and transparency is one of our values! The organizing committee for Origins is still working through our internal conversation before opening up a formal feedback survey, but for now, here’s the numbers.
Overall Numbers
We seated 463 players in 103 games with a staff of 36 GMs (including non-game-facilitating Hosts).
Last year we seated 457 players in 101 games with a staff of 44 GMs.
A slight increase in butts in seats, but with that lower staff count we’re pretty sure that means that we served an appreciable amount of new faces! Anecdotally this seemed to be the case. We also saw a lot of groups come through who all wanted to play a game together.
Time Slots and Capacity
Our busiest slots were Saturday night and afternoon (62 and 61 players), Friday afternoon (59) and Thursday night (58). We had 10 tables in our room plus 2 official overflow tables elsewhere and 3 unofficial-but-often-available tables next door, plus the Larp room downstairs in the afternoons.
We basically got close to or met capacity (using those overflow tables) 6 of our 10 time slots.
Games Played
Games on Demand played 48 different individual game titles, 43 tabletop and 5 Larps, across the weekend.
Game Title – # of games player – total # of players – (system notes)
Infinite Galaxies – 5 – 24 – (PbtA)
Dungeon World – 5 – 23 – (PbtA)
Fate Core – 5 – 23 – (Fate)
The Warren – 4 – 21 – (PbtA)
Dogs in the Vineyard – 4 – 19
Urban Shadows – 4 – 18 – (PbtA)
Cartel – 4 – 16 – (PbtA)
Iron Edda – 3 – 21
World Wide Wrestling – 3 – 19 – (PbtA)
Laser Kittens – 3 – 18
Microscope – 3 – 16
No Country for Old Kobolds – 3 – 15 – (PbtA)
Kagematsu – 3 – 14
The Sprawl – 3 – 13 – (PbtA)
Save Game – 3 – 12 – (Fate)
OxCrunch – 3 – 8 – (PbtA)
Feng Shui 2 – 2 – 10
Mouse Guard – 2 – 10
Nights Black Agents – 2 – 10
Polaris – 2 – 9
Masks of the Mummy Kings – 2 – 9
Project: Dark – 2 – 9
Masks – 2 – 8 – (PbtA)
Fiasco – 2 – 8
Swords Without Master – 2 – 8
USMC Torchbearer – 2 – 8
The Mesopotamians – 2 – 7
Hour b/w Dog and Wolf – 2 – 4
The Tribunal – 1 – 8 – (Larp)
Firefly – 1 – 7
Warriors of Crown Heights – 1 – 6 – (Feng Shui)
Dungeon Crawl Classics – 1 – 6
Kayfabe – 1 – 5
Mobilize – 1 – 5 – (Larp)
Wrath of the Autarch – 1 – 5
Monster of the Week – 1 – 5 – (PbtA)
Neo Shinobi Vendetta – 1 – 5
The Fifth World – 1 – 5
Hope Inhumanity – 1 – 5
Traveller – 1 – 4
Durance – 1 – 4
Guards of Abashan – 1 – 4
Juggernaut – 1 – 4 – (Larp)
A Family Affair – 1 – 4 – (Larp)
Damned Love – 1 – 3 – (Larp)
Vault Hunters – 1 – 3
Misspent Youth – 1 – 3
Psi Run – 1 – 2
Thanks again everyone!