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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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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: PAX Unplugged 2024

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Games on Demand is once again planning to attend PAX Unplugged and we are in the process of gathering volunteers. We will be running indie tabletop RPGs are weekend long, on the hour every hour with an army of volunteers!

Would you like to be one of those volunteers? Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/nVPqPZzeeN. If you do not use Discord, please email natalya@indiegamesondemand.org.

Be sure to give yourself the Unplugged role in #⁠role-request and look at the most recent pins in the ⁠⁠#unplugged channel! Any volunteer who works ten or more hours is eligible for a free badge.

We have not changed our commitment to not attending conventions where a government that has the death penalty for queer and trans folks have a booth. We have reason to believe that will not be the case at Unplugged this year, so we are planning to be there in full force.

We can’t wait game with you!

Games on Demand at Gen Con Indy and Summer Knights Online – August 2024

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This year, Games on Demand will once again be offering in-person games at Gen Con in Indianapolis! At the same time we’ll also be hosting games online through a new event called Summer Knights Online. Both events will take place on the first weekend of August, 2024!

Gen Con Indy – August 1-3, 2024

Games on Demand at Gen Con will be following our classic in-person format. The event will take place in the Westin Hotel in Grand Ballroom 3 on the second floor, near the convention center skywalk. Sessions will run from 2pm-10pm on Thursday and 10am-10pm on Friday and Saturday. There won’t be any sessions on Sunday.

If you’ll be attending Gen Con, we’d love to have you join us and play some games! No registration necessary, just bring some generic tickets and enthusiasm! And if you’d like to volunteer to run games or help us run the event, just fill out this volunteer form.

Summer Knights Online – August 2-4, 2024

Summer Knights Online is a new online charity convention being coordinated by several organizations including our own Games on Demand Online volunteers as well as Good Games for a Good Cause, RPG Alliance Con, and others. Proceeds from the event will support World Central Kitchen.

Unlike our in-person events, the schedule will be largely set in advance so that game runners and event runners know whether there is enough interest in their session to prepare.

Summer Knights Online is currently looking for game runners to offer more games and workshop/seminar presenters to propose more sessions. We will have independent RPGs, D&D, and other RPGs throughout the weekend. You can sign up and submit games here: https://bit.ly/summer-knights-events

For questions and additional information, you can check out the Good Games for Good Cause Discord. https://discord.gg/dGeUBqgcTu

Games on Demand Responds to Qiddiya Gaming at PAX East

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The leadership team for Games on Demand at PAX East has recently learned that Qiddiya Gaming has a large booth at PAX East 2024, and is listed on the PAX East website and in the PAX Nav app as a featured exhibitor. Qiddiya Gaming is an extension of the government of Saudi Arabia through the Public Investment Fund. The Saudi Arabian government has countless human rights violations, often carried out through its court system. We are significantly disappointed to learn that this group will be present and featured.

The core values of the current Saudi Arabian government starkly oppose the values of Games on Demand. We believe that gaming should be a welcoming community for all who come to the table to experience joy, and carry no ill intent towards their fellow players.

Games on Demand has been present at every PAX East since 2012. We have seen the PAX convention continuously work to make every gamer who comes to the table with a sincere desire to share their joy feel like a welcomed member of the community. The inclusion of Qiddiya goes against those efforts. One of the six rules of PAX is “Don’t harass anyone” and this group has gone far beyond breaking that rule.

With PAX East less than two weeks away, we have decided to remain a presence at this year’s show. We want to continue to offer a space where people feel valued, accepted, and welcomed.

We call on PAX and ReedPop to commit to their stated values by continuing to offer a safe space to gamers from those who actively seek to harm them. If groups like Qiddiya continue to be present, this Games on Demand team will no longer work with PAX.

With love for our gaming community,

Brian Liberge & Natalya Waye
Games on Demand
PAX East & PAX Unplugged