Category: Games On Demand: Gen Con

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 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 at GenCon Online

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Hello, indie game enthusiasts! Games on Demand’s GenCon presence will be at GenCon Online this year, meaning you can join us whether or not you’re in Iindianapolis!

We’ve proposed 20 games and seminars that you can play from wherever you are. The GenCon Online event calendar opens on June 30, and registration opens July 9.

Watch the GenCon Online page for more: https://www.gencon.com/online

Where to find us:

Once the event registration system opens, search for “Games on Demand” in titles and descriptions, or look for events by the Indie Games Explosion group.

Gen Con 2019 Starts This Week!

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Gen Con 2019 Games on Demand Flyer
Gen Con 2019 starts this week and Games on Demand will be there once again! We’ll be in the same space as last year – Hyatt Regency hotel, third floor, Cosmopolitan ballroom B.

The location is listed on this handout, along with several other indie game friendly locations. Feel free to download it and pass it along to all your friends!

Indie Games on Demand handout for Gen Con 2019As always we’ll be running games starting at 10am on Thursday and ending at 2pm on Sunday. For full details about the Gen Con show runs, see gamesondemand.github.io.

If you plan to join us at the show, or if you’re just a fan of Games on Demand and want to help out, we can always use donations to print materials and support our volunteers. You can send your contributions to paypal.me/GamesonDemand.

If you’d like to know what games we’ll be offering, feel free to check out our tabletop and larp menus. As in previous years, these PDF files are pretty large as they were made for printing, so be warned.