Games on Demand – Gen Con Update

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Games on Demand – Gen Con Update

It’s been a few weeks since Gen Con, and we’ve finally pulled together most of the data from the event. I’ll share more of the details soon, as well as a link to a survey to gather feedback, but for now, here’s a summary:

– 354 game sessions run

– 92 distinct games (not including scenario variations)

– 232 two-hour games

– 122 four-hour games

– 1667 players seated

Nicely done, everyone! Thanks to the volunteers for helping to make it happen, and to the many players who joined us this year!

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  3. John Stavropoulos
    September 3, 2013 at 7:40 pm

    Can we share this information?

    Sounds like we will be breaking over 2,000 player tickets collected.

    Any word from Gen Con about how they felt about our event?

  4. John Stavropoulos
    September 3, 2013 at 7:42 pm

    Actually, it looks like this community is already public! 

  5. Morgan Stinson
    September 3, 2013 at 7:45 pm

    So rad. How many facilitators did you have?

  6. Steve Segedy
    September 3, 2013 at 7:47 pm

    Sure, share away. I’ll post more data soon, including games by frequency/top ten numbers.

    I have plans to talk to Derek this week to debrief about the event. My guess is that Gen Con is happy with the results.

  7. Steve Segedy
    September 3, 2013 at 7:48 pm

    Morgan Stinson we had 85 or so volunteers, between hosts and GMs, not including the people who stepped up to volunteer during the show. It was pretty massive.

  8. Morgan Stinson
    September 3, 2013 at 8:12 pm

    That sounds awesome and enviable.

  9. Marc Majcher
    September 3, 2013 at 9:53 pm

    That’s pretty amazing! 

  10. Phil Kalata
    September 3, 2013 at 10:26 pm

    So, some rough numbers based on that, it looks like there were about 6,000 gamer-hours of play through Games on Demand this GenCon. Good work, everyone!

  11. Sean Duncan
    September 4, 2013 at 1:20 am

    This was my wife and my first ever GenCon and our first ever Games on Demand — we did nothing else during GenCon. Well, other than buy lots of stuff in the exhibit hall.

    We were a bit taken aback by how popular GoD was (and maybe the boarding pass model doesn’t scale so well), but overall we were so, so, so happy to get into a few games. Thanks to the organizers for being welcoming to a couple of people new to all of this, and thanks for a fantastic time overall.

  12. Jeremy Friesen
    September 4, 2013 at 1:22 am

    Sean Duncan, I’m glad to hear that you kept coming back for more. (As an aside if you would’ve been there in 2012, you’d have seen the boarding pass model as a vast improvement.)

  13. Ajit George
    September 4, 2013 at 4:53 am

    Thanks to Steve Segedy and the GoD admin team for organizing and leading us!