Are you going to be at Gen Con next week? Would you like to know where to demo, play, and buy all the great independent and small press games? Check out our Indie Games Explosion map!
Feel free to download this image and print it out to show your friends where you’ll be at the show.
Thanks to John Stavropolous for putting this map together.
The time has finally come to officially sign up for Games on Demand at Gen Con! We’re looking for people to help us welcome attendees, organize seating, and run games for enthusiastic players!
The show runs from July 30 to August 2, 2015, and we’ll be running games from Thursday through Sunday morning. Free badges are available for those volunteering for 16 or more hours.
If you’re interested in joining us, fill out this form and let us know!
Diversity is an important part of Games on Demand so we especially encourage women, people of color, and gamers of all ages, genders, races, and backgrounds to join us! We’ll provide training and support as needed.
Please share this post and link with anyone you think would like to join us!
Another year of Games on Demand at Gen Con has come and gone and all data has been compiled – We had around 90 volunteers this year, working hard to organize everything and be ready to run 310 games for 1452 players in just 4 days! Wow, what a huge year! It was a great show and we’re very happy with the results.
We know that many of you have feedback about the show as well, and we’d like to hear from you. We’ve put together a Google survey to collect some basic data from you as well your observations and ideas. This is also a great opportunity to tell us you’d like to join us as a volunteer next year!
Give Us Your Feedback!Also, if you played with us this year and had a good time, please consider dropping some change in our tip jar to support the event. The cost of a generic ticket goes entirely to Gen Con, and only helps us get the space and GM badges to run the event. Your donations will help repay our volunteers for the cost of materials for the show- menus, signage, and other supplies.
Thanks as always for joining us at Games on Demand and helping us to celebrate our favorite games!
Here are the game stats from Games on Demand at Gen Con 2014. Thanks to Jeremy Friesen and our many great hosts for keeping track of the information between seating times and doing the data entry after the show.
We had many great games this year, and the breadth of games that ran is always more exciting to see than the high number of sessions for the most popular games. Many of the games are late-playtests of new games or hacks of other systems that were combined with that games’ numbers. You can expect to see these again more prominently at next year’s show!
It’s also worth noting that while Monsterhearts and it’s variants had the highest number of sessions this year, adding Fate Accelerated Edition and Fate Core together would put them at the top. It was a big year for Fate all around!
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Games on Demand starts on Thursday morning! Are you ready?
This year’s event is in a new awesome location! Come find us here:
Indianapolis Marriott Downtown
2nd Floor in Ballroom 6
350 W Maryland St, Indianapolis, IN 46225
210 RPGs & LARPs,
46 Hrs, 25 Tables, 70 GMs,
No Registration, No Planning!
Start Times: Seating begins at times listed below. Arrive 5-10 minutes before that to make sure you get a boarding pass.
Thursday: 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm
Friday: 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm, 8pm, 10pm
Saturday: 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm, 8pm, 10pm
Sunday: 10am, 12pm, 2pm
Boarding groups will be called randomly, so there’s need for lines or trying to get a specific boarding pass letter.
Cost: Generic Tickets, 2 hr game = 1 ticket, 4 hr = 2
Experience: None, all rules taught
Family Gaming: Most games are for ages 18+ but this year we will a number of games designed for ages 10+ as well!
More Information: For more up-to-date details about our procedures and game options, see https://tinyurl.com/DemandGames
