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 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...
May 10, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 119
Decision 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 episodes sin...
May 03, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 118
Decision 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 117 - Overcentralizing Mechanisms and Messina 1347 First and foremost, thank you to everyone who voted for Decision Space to be nominated for a Golden Geek award. We a...
Apr 26, 2023•58 min•Ep. 117
Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. VOTE for us for a Golden Geek 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 116 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Combos We return with another fan favorite "What We Talk About" episode, this time diving deep into the world of combos. We seek ...
Apr 19, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 116
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 115 - Talking Blocking Featuring Recent Plays of Hansa Teutonica, Zoo Vadis, and Go Before we go any further, vote for us for a Golden Geek here - https://boardgamegeek.com/geekawards/boardgame . Now that that announcement is out of the way, in this weeks epi...
Apr 12, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 115
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 114 - My City Part Two, the Legacy Game (Full Spoilers) We are jumping right back into My City's decision Space, but this time we are looking at the legacy game, and things get meta. We recommend starting with episode 113, but there is really no reason why yo...
Apr 05, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 114
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 113 - My City Part One, The Eternal Game It's back to back (to back) Reiner Knizia deep dive episodes on Decision Space! In this week's voyage, we take on My City's eternal game mode. Next week, we'll check out the legacy game mode. There is a ton of great st...
Mar 29, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 113
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 ...
Mar 22, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 112
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-Planner...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 111
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 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...
Mar 08, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 110
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 109 - Barrage It's time to take this Interdecisional Spaceship for another deep dive. This time we are heading into the murky depths of Barrage 's decision space, designed by Simone Luciani and Tommaso Battista . Fortunately, we won't have to go it alone. In ...
Mar 02, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 109
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 108 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Asymmetry in Games We are back with yet another "What We Talk About" episode! This time the pilots of our Interdecisional Spaceship discuss asymmetry. We talk about what games with asymm...
Feb 23, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 108
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 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 ...
Feb 15, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 107
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 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 ...
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 106
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 appl...
Feb 01, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 105
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 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...
Jan 27, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 104
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 103 - Thirteen Recent Plays at Geekway Mini An atypical episode of Decision Space, this week focuses on Jake's thirteen recent plays at the Geekway Mini convention. There were plenty of high highs and low lows among the games cove...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 103
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 102 - Renature Renature , jointly designed by Kramer and Kiesling, is the third Kramer design (El Grande and Palaces of Carrara) and third Kiesling design (Azul and Palaces of Carara) we've covered on the show. These guys are fast...
Jan 18, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 102
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 101 - Decision Space 101 Welcome Interdecisional Space Travelers from this world and beyond, you are in the right space. That's right this is Decision Space 101, the best starting point to on board yourself to Decision Space: The ...
Jan 11, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 101
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 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...
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 100
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 99 - In the Year of the Dragon From the designer who brought you the masochistic pain land of Carpe Diem, we ask, is In the Year of the Dragon the most punishing game ever? Today on Decision Space, we will pilot our Interdecisiona...
Dec 21, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 99
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 98 - We Rank EVERY Game 2022 Year End Special We have finally made it to the end of the year special in which we rank every game featured on Decision Space in 2022. It is pretty amazing that we have been at this now for two years....
Dec 21, 2022•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 98
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 97 - BattleCON We have been interested in covering BattleCON since day one of this show, and it only took us 96 episodes to get to it. Fortunately, the wait was worth it because this game is awesome. It really is, but is it for ev...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 97
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 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 i...
Nov 30, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 96
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 95 - Memoir '44 This is an episode of firsts. We cover our first war game, our first didactic game, and our first ameritrash game all in one shot. Today, we dive deep into Memoir '44 , the award winning game designed by Richard Bo...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 95
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) Episode 94 - Rajas of the Ganges This week we deep dive a worker placement, tile placement, dice manipulation euro game with, and I can't stress this enough, a river that you can move forward down but never back! If that doesn't get you fired up then your name must not be Jake Frydman! Welco...
Nov 16, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 94
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) Episode 93 - MARVEL SNAP You are reading that right. There is not an error on your phone, computer, tablet, etc. We've done board games, we've done sports, and now, for the first time, Decision Snap veers into the exclusively digital play area of video games. Specifically, we are covering MA...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 93
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 92 - Developing Decisions in Games with Special Guest Alex Cutler We are joined by Alex Cutler, the the lead board game developer at Pandasaurus, to talk about what it is a developer does. Alex brings his wealth of experience and uses Pandasaurus' new hot game The Wolves as a case study to teach us a thing or tw...
Nov 02, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 92
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 91 - Point Salad Hope you are hungry, but not that hungry because it is salad week on Decision Space. Point Salad that is -- designed by Molly Johnson , Robert Melvin , Shawn Stankewich and published by AEG. We provide our usual ratings and capsule reviews, deep dive this small game's decision space, think about...
Oct 26, 2022•59 min•Ep. 91
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 90 - Bonfire We get to talk about another Stefan Feld game, and I just have to say it feels so good. This time we talk about the 2020 hit (I'd call it a hit), Bonfire. It's a psychedelic game about gnomes, guardians, and colorful bonfires, man. Truly, that is really all I can tell you about it. Also, it's a clas...
Oct 19, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 90
