Scott Acker, Tim Koppang, and The Play Collective are getting together to run Games on Demand* at Gen Con this year. We'd probably** love to run your game.

If you want GOD to run your game, post here and coordinate to get materials to GOD and to train GOD how to run your game. Help GOD help you.

* Games on Demand, in case you don't know, is a several tables set up for open gaming where attendants run games for people who come to the table with generic tickets.

** If this drive is super-effective, I can't guarantee we'll get to run every game. Thus, "probably."

Hi Guys,

Here's another way that GoD can help designers!
Please provide some high-visibility means (like a notice board, or white board, or similar) for folks (like me) who'd like to run a game at GoD.  It would be a huge boon to be able to put up a note to the effect of: "Darcy Burgess will be here, ready to run Black Cadillacs on Saturday at 2pm. Sign up below."

Thanks,
D

I'm happy to provide Bliss Stage, Polaris, and XXXXtreme STREET luge demo guides. Can you give a sense of what you're looking for, though, in terms of depth, formatting, length of session, etc?

yrs--
--Ben

Darcy: I'll pass along the suggestion.

Ben: We're looking for materials and training for full-session (4 hour con slot type spots) games.

Please, people who will be at the booth spaces. Let us help you. Point people our direction when they are interested in more than a demo. We will be at the Omni-Severin Hotel just across the skywalk from the main convention center in the Fisher Ballroom.

Just make sure we have the game and know how to run it. I'll be honest that I enjoy these games but unless I've played in one I sometime feel I'm not up to speed on the mechanics. I certainly did not get everything out of IAWA until I'd played it a couple of times.

A packet to run the game for GoD would be optimal but I know the expense and trouble of putting something like that together may not be doable for everyone. Just like everything else in life though, the more you put in, the more you'll get out.

We may not get there this year, but I see a very large upside to close communication and collaberation between the designers, booth staff, GoD, and the wider community. We will definitely be pointing people back to you to get more information (and hopefully purchase) the games we are running. I've seen some companies (like Arc Dream) give out discount coupons to anyone who plays in one of their games for example.

Think it over. There has to be more and better ways to do what we do. I just want everyone to have fun. B-)

Scott, I also think on-the-day we can go to the booths and give people this pitch.

Fisher Ballroom at the Omni-Severin, gotcha. (just think Bobby Fisher, just think Bobby Fisher...)

I was planning to buy a bundle of generic tickets on Wednesday in case we get some frothing people who want to play but don't have tickets. We can do this right? Even if it means just giving them the tickets. That way we can make sure we have tickets for games getting played, which is something I am supermindful of after last year.

So, is it OK to head to GOD on spec? I can't say what my schedule is going to be ahead of time, but I do want to help run some games (Labyrinths & Lycanthropes, Piledrivers & Powerbombs, AD 316, 3:16) if there's interest.

Yeah you can bring free tickets, that's totally cool. I think we have some nascent plans to do so too.

And yes, one of the functions/purposes of GoD is to have space for people to run games "on spec" as you put it.

Thanks, Rob. I'll add the GOD location to the Booth Menu for Design Matters (Booth 1834) too. We had a few people last year wanting to know where it was, so thanks for the heads up.

Glad to help.

Are you interested in training anyone how to run your games so that if you can't happen to be around we can do it for you?

I suspect if we don't know how/can't/don't want to run a given game, we'll direct people to the booth the game's in.

In fact, knowing what booth what game is in would be great. Probably too late for that kind of a project though.

Robert wrote:
In fact, knowing what booth what game is in would be great. Probably too late for that kind of a project though.