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Decision Space
Decision SpaceFighting Games of Understanding and Tag Team Review with Luke WilliamsDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 238 - Fighting Games and Tag Team Jake, Brendan, and special guest Luke Williams of the Laughing Table Friends are here to talk about the fighting game video game genre and review a new card game that simulates the very same thing, Tag Team. Also, we announce DECISON SPACE MERCH! Get your sweet...
2025-10-291h 23Inside Marketing with MarketSurge
Inside Marketing with MarketSurgeThe Future of Advertising: AI Agents, Contextual Targeting | Brendan Norman of ClassifyIn this episode of Inside Marketing with MarketSurge, we sit down with Brendan Norman, Co-founder and CEO of Classify — a groundbreaking platform organizing the world’s digital content to make it privacy-safe, searchable, and monetizable.Before founding Classify, Brendan helped scale the Facebook Audience Network into a $3B business and played a key role in Unity’s IPO. But when he tried to market a completely new platform, he hit a wall: there was no way to accurately find or understand content at the page level.So, he built the solution.Today, Classi...
2025-10-1528 minDecision Space
Decision SpaceDice Are NiceDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 231 - Dice Are Nice Jake and Brendan present the fourth installment in our component series.  This time, they dive deep into dice and all the interesting implications they bring to a game's decision space.  Input randomness?  We got that.  Output randomness?  You better believe it!   Timestamps 3:00- intr...
2025-09-101h 06Decision Space
Decision SpaceExpanding Root (Deep Dive Part 2)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 230 - Expanding Root Pete and Brendan bring you the jumbo sized sequel to episode 219.  We dig into the decision spaces of all six Root expansion factions!  We also talk about the new boards and cards.  This is our sort of farewell love letter to this amazing game.  We ran pretty long because I th...
2025-09-031h 54Decision Space
Decision SpaceAll About BoardsDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 227 - All About Boards Jake and Brendan continue our series on game components with a deep dive on BOARDS!  What types of boards exist?  How do they enhance the experience of playing a game?  What are the best boards?  Are tiles also boards?   Timestamps 5:00- what are b...
2025-08-131h 10Decision Space
Decision SpaceBoard Game Junk FoodDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 224 - Board Game Junk Food The gang gets slightly unhinged this week discussing what is the board game equivalent of trashy TV.  Also Brendan can't stop thinking about Doritos.   Game Timestamps 10:05- Hot Streak 15:00- Feudum 16:00- A Feast for Odin ...
2025-07-231h 07Decision Space
Decision SpaceAn Ode to the Tile, the Best Component in Tabletop Gaming?Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 223 - Ode to the Tile In this quite academic episode, Paul goes into full teacher mode with Brendan to discuss the many ways different types of tiles are used in board games.  Stay tuned to hear Paul use the term "recreational mathematics" MULTIPLE times!   Timestamps 2:00- ba...
2025-07-161h 00Decision Space
Decision SpacePlayer Count Problems and SolutionsDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 221 - Balancing for Player Count (WWTA) A game development episode in which Pete, Paul, and Brendan ask the important questions: What makes games flexible or inflexible when it comes to player count? Should a publisher put a suboptimal player count on a box? Are there games...
2025-07-021h 14Decision Space
Decision SpaceMail Time! (Ask Us Anything)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 220 - Listener Question Mailbag A loose episode in which Jake, Brendan, and Pete answer such hard hitting questions as:   "Why do you play board games?" "What designs are you working on?" "Who is the hottest member of the Fellowship?"    Game Tim...
2025-06-251h 16Decision Space
Decision SpaceRoot: the Greatest Game of All Time?Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 219 - Root Deep Dive (part 1) Buckle in for a long one!  Pete and Brendan go DEEP on Cole Wehrle's Root.  Did Brendan enjoy exploring Pete's favorite game?  Is the Vagabond OP?  Do the Cats suck?  Is this game too hard to learn?     Timestamps 3:20- reviews 12:50...
2025-06-181h 47Decision Space
Decision SpaceInnovation and Games without Guard Rails (Look Mom, No Hands!)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 216 - Innovation and Games without Guard Rails (Look Mom, No Hands!) Look mom, no hands! Brendan and Pete are diving into a discussion without guard rails (games) and then review Carl Chudyk's, Innovation. Timestamps Show Business - 0:00 Games without Guard Rails - 3:08 Innovation - 20:54
2025-05-2856 minDecision Space
Decision SpaceTop 10 Games of All Time (10 to 6)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 213 - Top 10 Games of All Time of All Hosts in 2025 All four hosts are here to share the first half of our top 10 games of all time lists. That is Paul, Pete, Jake, and Brendan counting down games number ten through six of our lists. Timestamps 0:00...
2025-05-071h 24Decision Space
Decision SpaceLet's Duel! Toy Battle and Dueling GamesDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 211 - Let's Duel! Toy Battle and Dueling Games Get back to basics with Jake and Brendan as we discuss how there are duel games and then there are duel games. Then, we toe tap into the kiddie pool with Toy Battle. Timestamps Show Business - 0:00 Du...
2025-04-231h 00Decision Space
Decision SpaceF Is for Filler and FarawayDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 208 - F Is for Filler and Faraway This week's episode, hosted by Pete and featuring Brendan and Paul, asks the question, "Are filler games just bad?" Enjoy this discussion on fillers before transitioning to a quick dip into Faraway. Timestamps Show Business - 0:00 Filler Games...
2025-04-091h 05Decision Space
Decision SpaceRIP To 3 Dearly Beloved Board GamesDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 207 - RIP To 3 Dearly Departed Board Games Brendan, Jake, and Pete each share a eulogy for one board game that they once loved, but which is now, sadly, no longer on our table. Funeral attire is strictly enforced. Timestamps Games are Forever - 0:00 Game One (7 Wonders) - 9:30
2025-03-261h 04Decision Space
Decision SpaceCan Games Be Mean?Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 206 - What We Talk About When We Talk About If Games Can Be Mean Pete, Brendan, and Jake debate whether games can be mean with our usual sense of decorum and mastery of the oral argument.  Timestamps Can Games Be Mean - 0:00   Ga...
2025-03-191h 05Decision Space
Decision SpaceDrawing Cards Is the Best Mechanism in Board Games (What We Talk About)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 205 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Drawing Cards It's an OG host episode, with the twist that Jake made the notes for once (with a little help from our discordians). In this episode Jake and Brendan talk about drawing cards in board games in two parts. Part one is...
2025-03-121h 08Decision Space
Decision SpaceExpression in Board Games (What We Talk About)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 204 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Expression in Board Games Brendan and Pete talk about expression in board games! The discussion takes us to the ways we can express ourselves through game play, the games that enable expression and the games that do not, and how this might shape...
2025-03-051h 03Decision Space
Decision SpaceTypes of Simultaneous Play and Fromage Deep DiveDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 203 - Fromage What the heck! The first episode ever with no Jake and no Brendan. It's up to Paul and Pete to lead the way, and they do an awesome job discussing the types of simultaneous play that you'll find in board game before deep diving Fromage.   Timestamps
2025-02-261h 16Decision Space
Decision SpaceAction Points in Board Games (What We Talk About)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 201 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Action Point Systems It's a throwback to the early days of Decision Space. Jake and Brendan have a wide-ranging, loosely planned conversation about a topic in board games. Today that topic is action point systems, which we've explored recently in Tikal and Mexica...
2025-02-121h 01Decision Space
Decision SpaceShedding in Board Games (What We Talk About) and a Haggis ReviewDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 199 - Shedding Games and Haggis It's Pete, Paul, and Brendan this week discussing the shedding mechanism in board games before pivoting into a review of one of the most notable of these card games, Haggis! Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 3:38 - Shedding Games WWTA 34:45 - Scout  43:20...
2025-01-291h 20Decision Space
Decision SpaceOur Top 5 Kramer & Kiesling Games and Mexica Deep DiveDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 197 - Our Top 5 Kramer & Kiesling Games and Mexica Deep Dive It's Jake and Brendan again this week. We start off be each sharing our top 5 Kramer and Kiesling games. Then we get into the long promised Mexica deep dive. We are trying out the new deep dive format with a short topic...
2025-01-151h 06Decision Space
Decision SpaceQuintessential Brendan GamesDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 194 - Quintessential Brendan Games Back after a short baby-hiatus, Decision Space returns with the one about Quintessential Brendan Games. We get to pull out the entire Decision Space lexicon and see how Brendan's taste in games fit into what we do here. Enjoy! Timestamps Message from Jake...
2024-12-181h 13Decision Space
Decision SpaceQuick Show UpdateJake's family welcomed a baby, which is why the show was on a brief hiatus for last week and this week.  Next week you can look forward to an episode on quintessential Brendan games, and following that, our year end ranking all the games episode.  -Jake
2024-12-1201 minDecision Space
Decision SpacePlay at Work (Business Casual Dress Code Strictly Enforced for all Listeners)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 189 - Play at Work In this unique episode, Jake makes the case to Brendan for play at work based on the slides from an upcoming presentation. Business casual dress will be strictly enforced for all Interdecisional Spaceship travellers listening in.   Happy Halloween If you are loo...
2024-10-311h 00Decision Space
Decision SpaceTOP 10 Games of the '90s with Jared IngersollDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 188 - Top 10 Games of the '90s In this episode 3 copilots take on a tall task - rank the top 10 best euro-style board games of the '90s. We try out a wacky new format, it is kind of confusing, but don't worry because Brendan catches on eventually.  This e...
2024-10-231h 03Decision Space
Decision SpaceEGO - Does this New Knizia Game Come in Peace?Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 187 - EGO On this historic day, the Decision Space co-pilots have finally been talked into accepting a review copy of EGO from Bitewing games. While we couldn't play as many times as we normally do for a game deep dive, we did our darndest to give this game the full Decision...
2024-10-161h 09Decision Space
Decision SpaceOops, We Played the Hotness (Stamp Swap, Wilmot's Warehouse and other Recent Plays)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 183 - Oops, We Played the Hotness (Stamp Swap, Wilmot's Warehouse and other Recent Plays) In this interlude episode, Jake and Brendan quickly discuss some games that have hit our tables lately and never previously discussed on the pod. Oops, we played some hot games. (Shut up.) Timestamps
2024-09-1847 minDecision Space
Decision Space18: BOARD GAME SIGNPOSTS (Re-Listening Club)Episode 18 of Decision Space, originally published May 26, 2021. Join us in the Discord community for the re-listening club discussion.  "In this "What We Talk About Episode" Jake and Brendan discuss signposts in board games. We ask important questions like what are they even? And further, what do they do? To this end, Jake becomes increasingly more confused. Fortunately, we eventually come to some steady footing and draw conclusions about this board game terminology that we believe will lead to even more productive board game discussions moving forward. If that sounds like a good time to you, then good l...
2024-08-211h 09Decision Space
Decision SpaceTrick-Taking in Board Games (What We Talk About with Pete Wissinger)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Vote for Decision Space to win the Golden Geek HERE: https://boardgamegeek.com/geekawards/boardgame (If you have any questions or difficulty, please reach out in the discord!) Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 169 - Trick-Taking Pete Wissinger stops by the interdecisional spaceship to talk trick-taking games!   Timestamps I...
2024-05-151h 13Decision Space
Decision SpaceTOP 10 Games of All Time (May 2024 Nothing Is Sacred Edition)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Vote for Decision Space to win the Golden Geek HERE: https://boardgamegeek.com/geekawards/boardgame (If you have any questions or difficulty, please reach out in the discord!) Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you find this podcast! Episode 167 - Top 10 Games 2024 Not much to say here, folks! Hop into the Interdecisional Spaceship as Jake and Brendan update all tr...
2024-05-011h 10Decision Space
Decision SpaceRevisitability vs. Replayability and Revisting GamesDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Nominate Decision Space for a Golden Geek Here: https://boardgamegeek.com/geekawards/boardgame (If you have any questions or difficulty, please reach out in the discord!) Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 165 - Revisiting Games Golden Geek, Golden Geek, Golden Geek! That's right, it's pledge week here on Decision Space. Please consider nominating us...
2024-04-1759 minDecision Space
Decision SpaceTicket To Ride - A Classic for All Ages with Special Guest Bill CollinsDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Nominate Decision Space for a Golden Geek Here: https://boardgamegeek.com/geekawards/boardgame (If you have any questions or difficulty, please reach out in the discord!) Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 164 - Ticket To Ride with Bill Collins This week we are joined by Bill Collins. You may know him as Varianor on...
2024-04-101h 07Decision Space
Decision SpacePlay & Design Decisions in Drafting Games (What We Talk About)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 163 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Drafting, Part Two In the second part of our What We Talk About episode on drafting, we move away from drafting mechanisms and into drafting decisions. Jake and Brendan discuss the decision space created in drafting games, focusing on traditional pack...
2024-04-031h 04Decision Space
Decision SpaceAll the Things We Call Drafting (What We Talk About)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 162 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Drafting, Part One Brendan is back in the saddle, and we settle down to part one in a two (or more) part series on drafting in board games. This episode is specifically on drafting as a mechanism and how this common...
2024-03-271h 04Decision Space
Decision SpaceScoring Logistics (What We Talk About)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 159 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Scoring Logistics Scoring logistics, the way the game facilitates scoring sometimes feels like an afterthought. At least, it isn't often at the forefront of game reviews and criticism. This week, Brendan and Jake dig into this perhaps overlooked aspect of board...
2024-03-061h 07Decision Space
Decision SpaceWhat We're Playing with Pete WissingerDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 158 - What We're Playing with Pete Wissinger Pete Wissinger stops by the interdecisional spaceship to talk with Jake and Brendan about some games that he's been playing lately, and wouldn't you know it, we've been playing some games too! Pete is an up and coming game designer with a love fo...
2024-02-211h 15Decision Space
Decision SpaceLearning Plays (What We Talk About)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 157 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Learning Plays Holy animal meeple, it's back to back what we talk about episodes. This time Jake and Brendan talk all about learning plays. Jake gets a little confused half way through, but Brendan is there to help way find for...
2024-02-141h 06Decision Space
Decision SpacePlayer Interaction (What We Talk About)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 156 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Player Interaction Jake has a lot on his mind after some recent turbulence at his weekly game night. The culprit? Player interaction. The result is this episode. Brendan and Jake talk for an hour about all forms of player interaction, invent...
2024-02-081h 06Decision Space
Decision SpaceNine Paradigm Shifting Games!Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 149 - Paradigm Shifting Games Jake and Brendan share nine games that shifted the way we think about games. Oops! Jake even included a video game. Stupid Jake, bad! Ahem. Interdecisional Spaceship travellers, suit up. It's time to get out there into the paradigm shift!! Awoooooosh.   Pre-Planners
2023-12-1357 minDecision Space
Decision SpaceSomething Old, Something New, & Something Never Getting Reprinted (7 Mini-Reviews)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 145 - Something Old, Something New, & Something Never Getting Reprinted This week, Jake and Brendan talk about some recent plays in a mini-review format. Our gift to you, dear listener is covering something new (2024 release!), something Old (1997), and something out of print and (probably) never getting reprinted (???). Brendan also reveals a...
2023-11-151h 03Decision Space
Decision SpaceSanta Monica - Dreams of VariabilityicationDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast!  Episode 143 - Santa Monica   This week, the Interdecisional Spaceship takes a much-needed detour to the beach. That's right, we are catching some waves in sunny Santa Monica. In the episode, Brendan and Jake will deep dive into the game and get into some pretty deep waters about the implementation and...
2023-11-0152 minDecision Space
Decision SpaceWhat Do Our Most Played Games Tell Us About Replayability? (Top 5 Most Played Digital and Physical Games Lists!)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast!  Episode 142 - Our Most Played Physical and Digital Games   Brendan and Jake share their top 5 most played games digitally and physically and think about what these lists mean through a lens focused on replayability. We hope you decisionaughts enjoy this discussion as much as we enjoyed having it! ...
2023-10-251h 03Decision Space
Decision SpaceCatching Up on Jake’s Vacation, Stonemaier Design Day, and MoreDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast!  Episode 141 - Catching Up   We didn't prepare for this episode at all! Without time to create a full fat episode of Decision Space, Jake and Brendan hop on the mic to catch up with eachother on what has been going on over the past few weeks. We invite you to...
2023-10-1850 minDecision Space
Decision SpaceCatching Up on Jake’s Vacation, Stonemaier Design Day, TV Shows, and Hardly Any Recent Plays at AllDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast!  Episode 141 - Catching Up   We didn't prepare for this episode at all! Without time to create a full fat episode of Decision Space, Jake and Brendan hop on the mic to catch up with eachother on what has been going on over the past few weeks. We invite you to...
2023-10-1750 minDecision Space
Decision SpacePlaytesting and Prototyping - This Is the Podcast About the Designing of Games 😉Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast!  Episode 135 - Playtesting and Prototyping Welcome to Decision Space, the only podcast that takes place right here before the turns of your favorite games (someday, we hope). Anyways, this podcast is very different. Today, Brendan and Jake put on their game designer hats and share some of their experiences and lessons l...
2023-08-2355 minDecision Space
Decision SpaceRecent Plays at Gamers Ranch (Mini reviews of Heat, The Search for Lost Species, and More.)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 130 - Recent Plays at Gamers Ranch This week's impromptu episode features Jake regaling Brendan with stories of his recent plays at Gamers Ranch -- Heat, The Search for Lost Species, and Earth to name a few. Brendan gets in there too with some plays of his own! It's a rough...
2023-07-191h 19Decision Space
Decision SpaceChicago Express/Wabash Cannonball - We’re the Train Game Podcast Now 👀Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 127 - Chicago Express/Wabash Cannonball Choo Choo! The Interdecisiona Spaceship is now officially a train because we are now officially train game guys (some of the biggest ever)! Today, Brendan and Jake chugga chugga choo choo their way deep into the heart of Chicago Express/Wabash Cannonball's decision space. This ga...
2023-06-281h 05Decision Space
Decision SpaceComfort Games (What We Talk About)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 124 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Comfort Games Snuggle up in a favorite cozy corner, grab yourself a chai, and just make yourself comfortable. Today, all seats in the Interdecisional Spaceship are not in their up right and locked position. Today, we are laid back, relaxed, and c...
2023-06-1453 minDecision Space
Decision SpaceTroyes - A Cult Classic or Just Old?Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 123 - Troyes It's been like 10 episodes since the last one, but we are finally back with the original, iconic deep dive Decision Space format. This week, we cover "TROY-EZZ," "TWAHH," and probably a bunch of other pronounciations for Troyes, a board game published by Pearl Games and designed by Séb...
2023-06-0734 minDecision Space
Decision SpaceGeekway Plays and Large Player Count Games Feat. Blood on the Clocktower, Guards of Atlantis II, and Challengers!Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 121 - Geekway Plays and Large Player Count Games Feat. Blood on the Clocktower, Guards of Atlantis II, and Challengers! We did it. Jake and Brendan have final met and gamed together in person, and, good news, we aren't ending the podcast. In this episode we briefly touch on all the ga...
2023-05-251h 12Decision Space
Decision SpaceMission Planning - Geekway to the West!Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 120 - Mission Plan for Geekway to the West Brendan and Jake get hyped as they discuss the games that they most want to play this weekend at Geekway to the West. Now that the mission plan is complete, come back next week when we'll discuss the games that we actually...
2023-05-1754 minDecision Space
Decision SpaceThe CoD of Board Games? Architects of the West Kingdom Deep DiveDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 119 - Architects of the West Kingdom It's the return of the deep dive. Strap into your Interdecisional Spaceship safety harnesses because we are heading for the West Kingdom. Specifically, we explore Architects of the West Kingdom by Shem Phillips and S J Macdonald on this week's episode of Decision Space. Br...
2023-05-1059 minDecision Space
Decision SpaceTOP 10 Games of All TimeDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. VOTE for us for a Golden Geek award here - https://boardgamegeek.com/geekawards/boardgame. Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 118 - Top 10 Games of All Time Let's cut to the chase. Today, Brendan and I bring you our top 10 games of all time as of May 3rd, 2023. It's been about 80...
2023-05-031h 14Decision Space
Decision SpaceBabylonia - Brendan and Maya Take the Case!Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 112 - Babylonia Surprise! Today, for a Decision Space first Brendan and Maya co-pilot the Interdecisional Spaceship alone, as they dive deep into the Decision Space of Reiner Knizia's (the artist also known as Rhino Knizz) Babylonia. Long time listeners will know that this is one of Brendan's...
2023-03-221h 12Decision Space
Decision SpaceDesign Problems? Yo, These Games Solved ’Em!Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 111 - Elegant Solutions to Design Problems In this raucus episode, Brendan and Jake discuss design problems and the games that elegantly solve them. Join us on this journey through the many, many games tackling board game designs biggest problems.   Pre-Planners M...
2023-03-151h 11Decision Space
Decision SpaceSix Recent Plays - Ark Nova, Through the Desert, SolForge Fusion, Bullet ♥, Startups, and District NoirDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 110 - Six Recent Plays of Ark Nova, Through the Desert, SolForge Fusion, Bullet ♥, Startups, and District Noir Brendan and I recently played six board games, and we discuss them in this week's episode. The games covered range from huge releases to small indie games, classic games to ni...
2023-03-081h 10Decision Space
Decision SpaceCampaign Games, Legacy Games, and a Game Design Case StudyDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 107 - Campaign Games, Legacy Games, and Game Design Case Study In this episode, our intrepid co-pilot hosts first dive into the topic of campaign games and all the ways they are great and all the ways they are not. We discuss the campaign...
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Decision SpaceColoretto (and a Little Bit Zooloretto) - The One Where Jake Says Something Really StupidDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 106 - Coloretto and a Little Bit Zooloretto We're back with an episode deep dive at long last last! Today, we're covering Coloretto, but that's not all. We also touch on Coloretto's sequal Zooloretto as well! In this episode Jake misspeaks in the worst...
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Decision SpaceElegance (What We Talk About)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 105 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Elegance We promised an inelegant conversation and oh boy do we ever deliver on that. In this what we talk about episode, we begin with a definition of elegance and then struggle to apply...
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Decision SpaceBONUS EPISODE - Things We Hate About Our Favorite GamesDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 104 - Things We Hate About Games We Love and Things We Love About Games We Hate What's this?! A full bonus episode of Decision Space is in your feed thanks to our incredibly generous patreon supporters. In this episode, we discuss a topic...
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Decision SpaceEpisode 100! The Next 100 Episodes and Games Played Over BreakDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 100 - Episode 100 We made it to 100 episodes of Decision Space. There isn't much else to do but give a heartfelt thank you to everyone who made this possible. Thanks Brendan for taking this show to greater heights and deeper dives than I would...
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Decision SpaceGames as Gifts and $100 Budget CollectionsDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 96 - Games as Gifts and $100 Collections In this two part episode, we first discuss the benefits, risks, and what to think about when giving games as gifts. We follow that up with a semi-related excercise where we each build our ideal collection, BUT...
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Decision SpaceTOP 15 Waning Decision Space Games with Jamey StegmaierDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community!  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 89 - Top 15 Waning Decision Space Games with Jamey Stegmaier Today special guest Jamey Stegmaier is back on the pod, and we count down the top 15 games with a waning decision space. That means you get 5 games from Brendan, Jake, and Jamey to sink your interdecisional fangs into. Also, we'll learn that it's all about the shape of the wane, ba...
2022-10-121h 00Decision Space
Decision SpaceGet on Board: New York & London - Brendan Says Mean Things About Old LadiesDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community!  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 87 - Get on Board: New York & London This week in lighter fare, the Interdecisional Spaceship veers towards London & New York in the aptly named Get on Board: London & New York, designed by Sashi and published by IELLO games. As always we explore the decision of flip and write turned flip and write and place components on a board game.  ...
2022-09-2856 minDecision Space
Decision SpaceDecision Space Debate - Cult of the Old VS. Cult of the New (Brendan Hansen VS. Paul Salomon)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community!  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 85 - First Decision Space Debate: Cult of the New VS Cult of the Old (Brendan Hansen VS. Paul Salomon) At long last the first decisional debate night has arrived. Today features a debate between Brendan Hansen and Paul Salomon (Designer of Honey Buzz), with Brendan representing cult of the old and Paul representing cult of the new. The debate fe...
2022-09-1459 minDecision Space
Decision SpaceMechanical Artifice (What We Talk About)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community!  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 84 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Mechanical Artifice This week we get old school with a throwback What We Talk About style episode. This time our co-pilots are talking through Brendan's new concept that he's calling mechanical artifice. In this episode, we'll define it, discuss how it fits into our understanding of decision space, and provide ga...
2022-09-071h 11Decision Space
Decision SpaceDice Hospital - Our Biggest Fight YetDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community!  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 83 - Dice Hospital This week, we make significant use of the Interdecisional Spaceships infirmary. Not only is Brendan recovering from an illness and more than a little raspy on the record, but we are recording about Dice Hospital. Designed by Stan Kordonsky and Mike Nudd, Dice Hospital is a worker placement dice manipulation game about administering a hospital for di...
2022-08-311h 00Decision Space
Decision SpacePower Grid, Playing Games in Teams, and Other Odds & EndsDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community!  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 81 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Power Grid, Playing Games in Teams, and Other Odds & Ends Not going to lie, this episode is a bit of an odd duck. Brendan and I were both out traveling this past week/weekend, so we had to record and edit this in a day to get it into your fe...
2022-08-171h 00Decision Space
Decision SpaceBoard Game Design Process (What We Talk About)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community!  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 71 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Board Game Design Process This week is a throwback "what we talk about" format, where Jake and Brendan chat about board game design process. We share our personal design histories and then talk about the game design process, including idea origination, prototyping, playtesting, publishers, a great tip for falling asleep fa...
2022-06-081h 04Decision Space
Decision SpaceBärenpark - PWH Fan Club Meeting with Special Guest Paul SalomonDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community!  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 70 - Bärenpark We welcome you to the first Phil Walker-Harding fan club meeting of 2022. Jake and Brendan are joined by PWH Fan Club president, Paul Salomon (designer of Honey Buzz), giving us a quorum. Today's agenda includes a discussion and exploration of Bärenpark, designed by Phil Walker-Harding and published by Lookout Games. This meeting has now come to or...
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Decision SpaceReviewing FOURTEEN Games - Geekway Convention RecapDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community!  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 68 - Geekway Convention Recap Jake attended a board game convention for the first time in three years. In this episode, you'll hear Jake recount his experiences with the 14 games he played last weekend, while Brendan steers the Interdecisional Spaceship and keeps the run time to under 90 minutes.    Timestamps Riftforce - 6:24 Bonfire - 14:49 ...
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Decision SpaceTigris and Euphrates, Pt. 1Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community!  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 62 - Tigris and Euphrates Part One This is a bit of a doozy. In the first part of the first two-part episode ever, Brendan and Jake spar about the merits of Tigris and Euphrates. Is this a great game? Would you recommend it to new gamers in the year 2022? And of course we talk about whether or not this ga...
2022-04-071h 15Decision Space
Decision SpaceGreat Western Trail - A Straight Shootin’ Strategy GameDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community!  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 61 - Great Western Trail Howdy! Today, we cover a game that, fittingly, Brendan and I have both had our own long and winding journeys with. And wouldn't you know it, it appears we hit a fork in the road and ended up in very different places. Great Western Trail is designer Alexander Pfister's biggest hit. It's a rondel building an...
2022-03-301h 07Decision Space
Decision SpaceA New Way To Talk About Objectives in Games (What We Talk About)Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community!  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 58 - What We Talk About When We Talk About A New Way To Talk About Objectives In Games Holy S***! It's a new way to talk about type episode after long last. In this one, Brendan presents his new framework for describing scoring/objective systems in games. These come in three types, solitary, juxtaposed, and overlaid. We quickly go th...
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Decision SpaceCascadia - The Cascadia Kid with Special Guest Maya PolanDecision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community!  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 54 - Cascadia Sorry to all previous guests on Decision Space, but it must be said that on today's episode of Decision Space we welcome our most special guest to date. For our deep-dive discussion of the decisions in Cascadia, we are joined by none other than Brendan's wife Maya Polan. Brendan and Maya have cranked out 65 plays of Cascadia so...
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Decision SpaceEvolution: Climate - Keep Your Politics in My Evolution Board Game?!Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community!  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 52 - Evolution: Climate This week we begin with a brief "What's on Your Mind" discussion. Brendan has been playing Calico, and Jake recaps an epic birthday game day. After that, we hop right into our signature deep dive discussion of the Evolution system with a focus on Evolution: Climate, designed by Dominic Crapuchettes, Dmitry Knorre, and Sergey Machin with art...
2022-01-261h 10Decision Space
Decision SpacePalaces of Carrara - Can You Grok the Block?Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community!  Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon)   Episode 51 - Palaces of Carrara Jake and Brendan are back in the interdecisional spaceship and - look out! - we're heading straight for Kramer and Kiesling's 2012 game Palaces of Carrara -- a decision space some call ungrokable. Find out what we say as wee discuss this sleek design that's oddly hard to talk about in this week;s episode of Decision Space, the podcast about decisions in games. Stick around for the en...
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Decision SpaceSplendor - The Little Engine That Could (Not Be Killed?)Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community!    Episode 49 - Splendor The week we change things up. No, really! It's the return of the "What's on Your Mind" segment where Jake and Brendan each share one game that we've been playing lately. Then we take off for Splendor's decision space in our interdecisional spaceship. We ask if this mega-hit is truly an engine building game, and, returning to Splendor after some time away, we ask if these gems still shine as brightly as they once did. You'll have to li...
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Decision Space7 Wonders Duel with Special Guest Jamey StegmaierClick on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community!    Episode 41 - 7 Wonders Duel Jake, Brendan, and Jamey Stegmaier hop in the Interdecisional Spaceship to talk 7 Wonders Duel on this week's episode. We talk about the way that three truly viable win conditions and the many simultaneous games of tug-of-war shape the decision space in this powerhouse Bauza and Cathala team-up design. You won't want to miss it. And if you can spare a moment to like and review this podcast, then that would mean the world to us! ...
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Decision SpaceImhotep - The Perfect Poached Egg?Click on the link to join our brand new Discord community!    Episode 34 - Imhotep This week on Decision Space, Imhotep! Designed by Phil Walker-Harding and a 2016 Spiel Des Jahres Nominee is a game about placing rocks, sailing boats, and getting in each other's way all the while. There isn't much more to it than that in this incredibly simple poached egg. I mean game. Will Jake and Brendan find this poached egg of a game to be bland, or will a perfectly runny yolk, fluffy texture, and pinch of salt prove that a po...
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Decision SpaceOur Personal Top 10 Games (What We Talk About)Click on the link to join our brand new Discord community!    Episode 33 - What We Talk When We Talk About Our Top 10 Games After 32 episodes Jake and Brendan break down and give you the board game content that you want and deserve. In this very special episode, we each share our personal top 10 games as well as a few honorable mentions. What are your top 10 games? Who's list is better? Jump into the conversation in our Discord channel to let us know what you think! Music Credits Thank you to...
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Decision SpaceJaipur - Jake EVISCERATES ItClick on the link to join our brand new Discord community!    Episode 32 - Jaipur Jaipur is a widely revered, frequently recommended two-player set collectin' card game designed by Sebastian Pauchon and published in 2009. We give Jaipur a bath in the Decision Spa and then take it out back and give it what for as we discuss its decision space and some of the design choices that we don't agree with! Join us in the Interdecisional Spaceship as we set course for a brutal new episode of Decision Space. Music Credits ...
2021-09-0846 minDecision Space
Decision SpaceFeedback In Games (What We Talk About)Click on the link to join our brand new Discord community!    Episode Thirty - Positive and Negative Feedback Types In this "What We Talk About Episode" Jake and Brendan reveal our new intro and outro music courtesy of Hembree. After that we discuss the various types of feedback in board games. This includes positive feedback, negative feedback, positive agency loops, incremental victory conditions, achievements, jackpots, losspots, and more. As always, it is our sincere hope that our discussion starts a conversation that will continue in our discord on Board Game Geek, or wherever el...
2021-08-2559 minDecision Space
Decision SpaceBruges - You've Got GrailClick on the link to join our Discord community!   Episode 28 - Bruges In this week's episode, Brendan is back! If that wasn't good enough news, we are also covering Bruges by Stefan Feld, the point salad game where you pay people to live in your houses. Never mind the thematic disconnect because these mechanisms are just, chefs kiss, amazing. We have a great discussion and we hope you will join us in the interdecisional spaceship as we set off for 15th century Belgium!   Preplan Your Next Turn Ne...
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Decision SpaceAnkh, Snakesss, and Sagrada - Paul and Jake Volume 2Click on the link to join our Discord community!   Episode 27 - Jake and Paul Volume 2 Congratulations to Brendan on the birth of his child! We are so happy for him and his family. In his stead, friend of the show Paul Salomon (Honey Buzz designer) is here again to talk with Jake about a few recent plays including new hotness, Ankh! Interdecisional spaceship, set a course for fun!   Preplan Your Next Turn Next week we discuss the decisions in Bruges by Stefan Feld!   Cal...
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Decision SpaceThe Art of Being Good (What We Talk About)Click on the link to join our Discord community!   Episode 25 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Being Good Jake and Brendan are back together on the microphones doing what we do best, talking about games and game peripheral things. Today's episode is a "what we talk about episode" where we talk about being good at games. This episode is a companion to a prior discussion on getting good. Once you have reached the mountain top, we ask the question, what next? Preplan Your Next Turn Next w...
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Decision SpaceAres Expedition, Summer Camp, Juicy Fruits, and Fireball Island - Paul and Jake Talk GamesClick on the link to join our Discord community!   Episode 24 - Paul and Jake Talk Games When Brendan is away, Paul comes in to save the day. On this episode, I'm joined in studio (my house) by Paul Salomon (Honey Buzz and Genotype) to talk unscripted about our recent plays. We talk about Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition, Summer Camp, Juicy Fruits, Fireball Island, and more. Hop in the Interdecisional Spaceship and enjoy the episode, then join us to continue the conversation on discord!   Preplan Your Next Turn Ne...
2021-07-1448 minDecision Space
Decision SpaceBOARD GAME SIGNPOSTS! (What We Talk About)Click on the link to join our brand new Discord community!    Episode Eighteen - What the HECK are Signposts in Board Games In this "What We Talk About Episode" Jake and Brendan discuss signposts in board games. We ask important questions like what are they even? And further, what do they do? To this end, Jake becomes increasingly more confused. Fortunately, we eventually come to some steady footing and draw conclusions about this board game terminology that we believe will lead to even more productive board game discussions moving forward. If that sounds li...
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Decision SpaceKeyForge - The MOST Skill Intensive Dueling Card Game?!Click on the link to join our brand new Discord community!  Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games and now on YouTube.   Episode 17 - KeyForge   At long last, our interdecisional spaceship has successfully navigated to the Crucible, the land of KeyForge. This is old stomping grounds for Jake and Brendan who have long -- like kind of absurdly -- histories with the game. KeyForge is designed by Richard Garfield and published by Fantasy Flight Games. In today's episode, we explore the decision space in KeyForge and whet...
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Decision SpaceReturn of the Game Night (What We Talk About)Click on the link to join our brand new Discord community!  Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games and now on YouTube.   Episode Fifteen - Return of the Game Night (What We Talk About) Jake and Brendan have a nice chat about returning to in-person play after so much time away. It's a conversation, as Brendan eloquently points out, that is like the scene in Star Wars where everyone takes a break to play chess, except with no mad Wookies. We also congratulate Brendan on his ne...
2021-05-0555 minDecision Space
Decision SpaceA New Way To Talk About Games (What We Talk About)Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games and now on YouTube.   Episode Twelve - We Invented a New Way To Talk About Games There's Waxing and Waning and Dynamic and Static, but do you recall, the most famous decision framework of all?  Well, Brendan has really went and done it this time. That's right, he invented a whole new way to talk about games. On this episode, we'll talk about this new paradigm and way to frame future discussions of decision space on Decision Space. Woof. We...
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Decision SpaceMagic: The Gathering - A Battle of Wits?Join our brand new Discord community!  Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games and now on YouTube.   Episode Ten It's our the big one-zero, and we make it a doozy by covering the legendary Magic: The Gathering. Was it perhaps too bold to attempt to cover the decisions in Magic: The Gathering in a single podcast episode? Yes. Definitely yes. But hey, you have to give us some points for trying. Magic is a game that needs no introduction. It's a game that has stood the te...
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Decision SpaceCompetitive Play (What We Talk About)Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games and now on YouTube.   Episode Nine - What We Talk About When We Talk About Competitive Play It turns out we talk about a whole lot when we talk about competitive play.* We ask what is competitive play and try to define it. We share our own histories in competitive gaming. We also think of the benefits and not-so-benefits of engaging in competitive play, including the potential pitfall of the "Levine Ravine." We conclude the episode with Brendan and Jake both s...
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Decision SpaceTerraforming Mars - Brendan Pans ItDecision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games and now on YouTube.   Episode Eight We discuss the super, mega-hit Terraforming Mars designed by Jacob Fryxelius and published by FryxGames. It's the 4th best game of all time according to the consensus of users on Boardgamegeek.com, and yet Brendan totally pans it. Come on Brendan, get with the program! (If it wasn't apparent already, Jake writes these episode blurbs... and episode titles. Sorry, Brendan).   0:00 - Intro, Ratings, and Synopses 4:11 - Rules Ove...
2021-03-1759 minDecision Space
Decision SpaceThe Fox in the Forest - It's Like Chess and BasketballDecision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games and now on YouTube.   Episode Seven We discuss the two-player trick-taking game The Fox in the Forest, designed by Joshua Buergel and published by Foxtrot Games. For the first time, Jake and Brendan significantly disagree on their rating for this game, but both agree that the game is a lot like basketball. No really.   Preplan Your Next Turn On Next week's episode, we will discuss the terraforming mars game, Terraforming Mars!   Cal...
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Decision SpaceRes Arcana - Start Your Engines! (Emphasis on Start)Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games and now on YouTube.   Episode Four We discuss Res Arcana and boy are my arms tired! Seriously, this was a difficult game to cover on a podcast about decisions. Nevertheless, Jake and Brendan give it their best shot to pull apart the threads of this tightly wound gaming package to see what's inside! What's in the box?!   Look Ahead On Next week's episode, we will discuss Underwater Cities by Vladimír Suchý. You can play Unde...
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Decision SpaceDecision Space (What We Talk About)Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games.    Episode Three This is our very first discussion topic show! We are calling these our "What We Talk About" episodes, which will pop up every third episode or so. In this week's episode, you'll hear what we (Brendan and Jake) talk about when we talk about decision space. No. We aren't talking about the show itself. We are trying to define the term "decision space" in the context of board gaming. The term is ubiquitous in our ho...
2021-02-1059 minDecision Space
Decision SpaceCarpe Diem - Stefan Feld's Masochistic Pain LandDecision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games. Today, Jake and Brendan tackle Carpe Diem, a 2018 board game where you try to get some grapes and then quickly realize you can't. Carpe Diem is designed by Stefan Feld and published by Alea. We are desperate to hear your feedback. We can be reached on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. Or you can be the very first to follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there!   Music Credits Way Home by Tokyo...
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