Author: Steve Segedy

Gen Con 2026 – Call for Volunteers

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Hello Fellow Gamers!

The time has come to make Gen Con 2026 Games on Demand a reality! The organizing committee is looking for initial commitments from those who plan to volunteer for hosting, GM-ing, and even organizing. Please fill out this survey by June 18th to let us know how you want to pitch in and roughly how many hours you can commit.

As a reminder, Gen Con takes place July 30 – August 2 in Indianapolis this year.

When it comes time to fill out the schedules and menus, we’ll send follow-up surveys to find out when you’re available to volunteer and (for those running games) which RPGs you want to bring to the table.

Wait, what exactly is Games on Demand?

Each year at Gen Con, we host an event where con-goers can show up whenever they have a free slot in their schedule to dive into awesome indie and small-press tabletop RPGs. This is an opportunity to bring a game you love to a wider audience and for gamers at Gen Con to explore games outside their usual play culture.

At Games on Demand, we strive to be inclusive, queer-friendly, and welcoming to gamers of all backgrounds and abilities. We expect our volunteers to help us champion this goal.

We absolutely love welcoming new volunteers! If you support our goals, but haven’t volunteered before, we would love to help you get started and will support you along the way. Also, if you know anyone who might be able to help, please encourage them to join the crew as well.

Benefits of Volunteering

While Games on Demand is built on mutualism and the joy of sharing your favorite indie games, we do offer some benefits:

  • Volunteering for enough hours at the show (either at the front desk, or running games) will net you a free badge (or a badge refund if you’ve already purchased one).
  • Need a place to crash? Those who can volunteer for a substantial amount of time may be able to qualify for our limited shared hotel space.

Click below to sign up to help us run the best event at Gen Con!

I want to volunteer!

Gen Con 2025 – Call for Volunteers

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Games on Demand - Gen Con

The Call for Gen Con Volunteers is Now Open!

If you’ve been waiting for the opportunity to sign up for Gen Con Games on Demand, the time is now! This event will take place in Indianapolis, IN, July 31 – August 3. We hope that you’ll join us and help to make this year our best event so far!

To sign up, just fill out this form:
https://forms.gle/XkuCDNDv2LUSGTPeA

Once you sign up, we’ll add your email to our volunteer mailing list and follow up with more information soon, including a request to gather details about the games you want to run. Read on for more details about the event!

Volunteer Commitment and Benefits

For those that are new to volunteering, we need both enthusiastic people to run games as well as organized and outgoing hosts to help players find games they’ll love. We also need organizers to help us put the event together over the next few months.

Volunteers committing to 16 or more hours get a free GM badge for the show, and you can get your existing badges refunded.

Volunteers will also get special passes that give them first choice of games when they come back to play, as our way of saying thanks!

Location

Once again our event will be held in Westin hotel in downtown Indianapolis in Grand Ballroom III on the second floor, near the escalator and skywalk to the convention center.

Our Games are for Everyone

At Games on Demand we would like to conceive of our event as inclusive, queer-friendly, and welcoming to gamers of all backgrounds and abilities. We expect that you as volunteers will help us achieve this goal as well! If you know anyone who might be able to help, please encourage them to volunteer as well.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

Sign up today! The deadline for submission is July 11th, 2025.

Games on Demand Online!

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Games on Demand Online!

Have you missed gaming with us at your favorite convention? We’ve missed you too! That’s why our dedicated volunteers have organized Games on Demand Online, taking place this month, August 28th-30th. We hope you’ll join us!

If you have a game you’d like to run, we’d love to have you! Come sign up by filling out the registration form.

Tickets for playing in the event will be available on August 17th. All funds from the event will be donated to The Bail Project and the NAACP LDF. Come throw some virtual dice with us!

Games on Demand at Origins Online

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As most of you already know, Origins has been postponed until October due to the pandemic, and in its place GAMA is putting together Origins Online from June 19-21, 2020. While we’re disappointed that we won’t be able to see you all and play games face-to-face, we’re excited to join the fun online!

Click the button below to submit your games to GoD Origins Online submissions form. In order for us to have time to process and batch load games to Origins, the submission deadline is May 10, 18:00 EST.

I Want to Run Games
for Games on Demand!

We expect that Origins will be limiting the overall number of events, and there will probably be lots of other unexpected differences from the Columbus show. We don’t know exactly how things are going to work yet, but we’ll all figure it out together.  Thanks, folks!

– The Origins GoD Team

Origins 2020 – Call for Volunteers

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Come run games with us at Origins 2020!

Origins Games Fair takes place in Columbus, OH from June 17-21, 2020. As in previous years, Games on Demand will have a room and tables for the show and we’re now accepting applications for volunteers. We would love to have you join us!

Origins 2020 Games on Demand Game Facilitator Form

The deadline for submission is March 31st!

How Does Volunteering Work?

For those that haven’t participated before, GoD is structured like this:

  • All games are 4 hours long. You can run 4 hour one-shot tabletop RPGs, run 4-hour larps, or Host at our registration table.
  • Volunteers who work 16+ hours get a badge.
  • Games need to be one-shots that presume no previous knowledge of the game so that we’re welcoming to new players.
  • When considering your second game, please think of running a game by lesser known and minority creators, to give them some spotlight.
  • When you facilitate a game, you need to collect 2 generic tokens from everyone who’s playing.
  • We do our best to make sure everyone who runs a game gets a table, but sometimes it works out that there won’t be enough players or interest for every GM to run a game every slot they’re scheduled.
  • We will make a game facilitator and registration table host schedule as best we can based on your preferences from this form.

Volunteer Benefits

Facilitators who run games for 1-3 slots get our gratitude, and we will comp you the generic token to play in another GoD game if your game doesn’t run. You still need to get your own Origins badge.

Facilitators who run games for 4+ slots (16 hours) get their GM badge comped*, in addition to comp’ing you as above.

Hosts who help us out at the registration table for 4+ slots (16 hours) get their GM badge comped*.

You can mix and match, and do both Facilitating and Hosting for a total of 16+ hours for a badge as well.

Note that we will not put down any one person for more than 4 slots of facilitation + 2 slots of registration table work.

* Comp’ing has not yet been confirmed by Origins, but this is how it has worked in the past and it should be fine this year as well, we’re 90% sure, but putting this caveat here just in case.

Our Games are for Everyone

At Games on Demand we make every effort to be inclusive, queer-friendly, and welcoming to gamers of all backgrounds and abilities. We expect that you as volunteers will help us achieve this goal as well! If you know anyone who might be able to help, please encourage them to volunteer as well.

PLEASE FILL OUT THE FORM BY MARCH 31st!

Thank you!
The 2020 Origins Organizer Team