Tabletop demo staff, learn-to-play host & convention event facilitator.
I help publishers, conventions, and game communities teach games clearly, welcome new players, and run smoother tables.
Three years of convention floors, publisher booths, and learn-to-play tables. I make your game's first impression a good one.
next: Gen Con 2026 — demo staff for NorthStar Games
Things you can hire me to do:
- publisher booth demos
- learn-to-play tables
- convention staffing
- game mastering / RPG facilitation
- organized play support
- retail & store demo days
- neurodivergent-friendly game teaching
- event setup & table support
- post-event feedback reports
- short-form game/demo content
Something adjacent? Ask. If it happens at a game table, I've probably done it.
- NorthStar Gamespaid demo staff, Gen Con 2026 — Eila and Something Shiny; also demoed Nature
- R. Talsorian Gamesran official Cyberpunk RED and Edgerunners Mission Kit sessions, Origins Game Fair 2026
- SunnySideUp Gamesran Solar Titans demos at Dice Tower West and Dreamation 2026
- Merchant Guildbooth staffing, PAX Unplugged
Three years demoing publishers' games at conventions and store events. Publishers I've represented on the floor:
- Underdog GamesTrekking the National Parks, Trekking Through History
- Mighty BoardsArt Society, Pinched!
- Red Raven GamesAbove and Below: Haunted
- The OpFountains
- DevirCities USA
- Ares GamesWunderWaffen
- Paper Fort GamesCosmoctopus
- Arcane WondersOnitama
- Smirk & DaggerShobu
- Th3rd World StudiosCanvas Critters
- Grandpa Beck's Gamesseveral of their family card games
Most run as store promo days or convention booth shifts: pitch, teach, run tables, repeat — and whatever you hand me next.
plus ongoing board game club and community events
- CC AnimeFest 2026Glitch Arcade ran the convention's entire tabletop hall: game library, demo tables, and a volunteer crew I organized and ran
- Community game nightsongoing club events, learn-to-plays, and one-shots
Before conventions, I worked at an autism center. That job taught me more about teaching games than any rulebook ever has.
What that looks like at the table:
- complex rules broken into manageable steps, taught in the order players need them
- explanations that adapt to the player, not the other way around
- low-pressure learn-to-play tables where being new is the point
- support for anxious, overwhelmed, first-time, and neurodivergent players
- group dynamics managed so quiet players get turns and loud tables stay fun
- welcoming brand-new players
- teaching gateway and hobby games
- running tables in loud convention halls
- explaining rules clearly and keeping games moving
- representing publishers professionally
- making a game's first impression count
- reading table energy
- reliability and clear communication before, during, and after events
- conventions worked: 7+
- publishers represented: 14+
- tabletop halls run: 1 (CC AnimeFest 2026)
- games taught cold: [counting…]
References available on request while this drawer fills up.
Available for publisher demos, convention staffing, learn-to-play events, and tabletop community work.
Hanzee@glitcharcade.org
- base: NJ / Philly area // travels nationally
- next confirmed: Gen Con 2026 — Jul 30–Aug 2 (NorthStar Games)
- availability: booking 2026–27 [update per season]
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