I try demoing games at a convention | Strategicon 2026

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For the first time ever, I demo board games to strangers! We're at Strategicon in Los Angeles, to teach the family-friendly dungeon crawler, Song of the Wildkin! Assisted by the designer and the designer of Rove, propped up by Andrew Bosley's art (Everdell artist), we see how much fun people can have with this game! Luckily this is not GenCon, rather a smaller convention, so there's less pressure to demo other games. Song of the Wildkin is a game I have been helping develop and am working on expansion content for, that takes asymmetry and boss battling ideas and makes them even more cooperative. We even got some testimonials of people who demo'd the game! Play Trials of Maya: https://gamefound.com/en/projects/zainmemon/trialsofmaya. Other games mentioned: Scythe, Oathsworn, Gloomhaven, Stuffed Fables, Heat, Xia: Legends of a Drift System, Raiders of the North Sea, Red Rising, Mistborn, Everdell Duo Table of Contents: Intro - (0:00) Day 1 - (1:59) Day 2 - (7:27) 3 Lessons Learned & Outro - (12:23) Support us: https://www.patreon.com/shelfside https://ko-fi.com/shelfside Our Website! https://www.shelfside.co/ Purchase Games We’ve Reviewed! (Paid Link) https://amazon.com/shop/shelfside Shelfside Social Media: https://twitter.com/ShelfSideYT https://www.instagram.com/shelfsideboardgames/ https://www.facebook.com/ShelfsideYT/ https://discord.gg/U7QQKqYT62 Links to our other stuff: Ashton's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ashtonwu Daniel's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/doyduh2 Stuff Used: "Funky Boxstep" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 "Marty Gots a Plan" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Music Credit: Dj Quads Track Name: "www is a thing" Music By: Dj Quads @  / aka-dj-quads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cqqUi1VaRo Music Credits: ● Music By: 'Homie Cat' ● Track Name: 'My Sacrifice' ● Official "Homie Cat" Spotify HERE - https://open.spotify.com/artist/01eWi... ● Official "Homie Cat" SoundCloud HERE -  / homie-cat Age of Empires Track 8 age of kings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkOC5BnnXwU&list=RDPkOC5BnnXwU Age of empires 2 Conquerors Track 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRWpooKRLwg&list=RDGRWpooKRLwg #boardgames #tabletop #tabletopgames