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 178 - More Design Problems and Games that Solve Them with Jamey Stegmaier We bring back the design problems and games that solve 'em format, and we've brought in a ringer to help us with the topic. We welcome Stonemaier Games' own Jamey Stegmaier back aboard the Interdecisional Sp...
Jul 31, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 179
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 177 - Tikal Tikal, designed by Decision Space favorites Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling, is back on the menu. Boosted by a great implementation on Board Game Arena, we have gotten enough plays to give this great game the full deep dive experience. Timestamps Intro - 0:00 Rati...
Jul 24, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 178
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 176 - Recent Plays Arcs, Food Chain, and the $%@! List It's a what we talk about episode on progression and the two ways it shows up in board games -- progression through games and progression in games. Decisionaughts, let's rock! Games Mentioned Arcs, Food Chain Magnate, Marabunt...
Jul 18, 2024•58 min•Ep. 177
Episode 10 of Decision Space, originally published in April 7, 2021. Join us in the Discord community for the re-listening club discussion. "Welcome to... episode eleven! (See what I did there?) Today, we talk about the famous roll and write/Roland Wright/flip and write board game Welcome To... designed by Benoit Turpin and published by Blue Cocker Games . Hop on into our interdecisional spaceship as we go deep into the variants, variance, and decisions of this exceedingly pleasant game. "...
Jul 10, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 176
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 175 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Progression It's a what we talk about episode on progression and the two ways it shows up in board games -- progression through games and progression in games. Decisionaughts, let's rock! Timestamps Intro - 0:00 Progression (WWTA) - 2:49...
Jul 03, 2024•57 min•Ep. 175
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 174 - Art Awards Stop! Attention! Before you go any further, you must know that we have outlawed talking about decision spaces on board the Interdecisional Spaceship. This is not a drill. Today we talk about and give awards for art excellence, which, it turns out, is a pretty nice...
Jun 26, 2024•55 min•Ep. 174
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 173 - Captain Flip Ahoy! We are not on ye old Interdecisional Spaceship this here be the Interdecisional Pirate Ship! Today we cover Captain Flip a game featuring many of our crewmates like the cook, the monkey, and of course, our gunners. We'll flip into the decisions in this one...
Jun 19, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 173
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 172 - Hidden Gem Connections Welcome to Hidden Gem Connections, a new game show right here on the Decision Space podcast. In this episode, joined by designer Paul Salomon (Honey Buzz, Genotype), the three hosts will each share three games that we think are hidden gems. Then we cha...
Jun 05, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 172
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 171 - "Puzzly" Games I played a game recently that was sooo puzzly. Listener, you may have heard a sentence like this before. You may even understand what that means, but have you ever tried to break down the decision space implications? Believe it or not, that's what we do on thi...
May 29, 2024•57 min•Ep. 171
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 170 - Geekway Plays This week we have 10 Freshies and 5 Refreshies, mini-impressions and reviews, that Jake is sharing from his weekend at Geekway to the West 2024. If I saw you there, then you already know what a weekend it was. If I didn't see you there, then I hope to catch you...
May 22, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 170
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! Time...
May 15, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 169
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 168 - The Decision Space Jam This week we discuss the Decision Space Jam, a game design jam run in our po...
May 09, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 168
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 B...
May 01, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 167
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 166 - Quantum Holy geek! Decision Space has been nominated for a Golden Geek award again. Thank you all s...
Apr 24, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 166
Decision 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...
Apr 17, 2024•59 min•Ep. 165
Decision 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 ...
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 164
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 t...
Apr 03, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 163
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 mechanism shows up i...
Mar 27, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 162
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 161 - Pete's Back! Gamers Ranch Recent Plays Pete Wissinger is back, and he and Jake are talking about recent plays at a magical trip to Gamers Ranch. We talk about Dune Imperium: Uprising, Blob Party (Jake's play of the weekend), Schadenfreude, Robot Quest Arena, and Three Ring ...
Mar 21, 2024•51 min•Ep. 161
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 160 - Bunny Kingdom This week we discuss Bunny Kingdom! We talk about the benefits of the visual representation of the deck via the board grid, the fact that scoring kind of seems like a drag, and a ton about the strategic implications of various cards. We hope you take flight wi...
Mar 14, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 160
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 o...
Mar 06, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 159
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 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 wit...
Feb 21, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 158
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 the Inte...
Feb 14, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 157
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, i...
Feb 08, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 156
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 155 - The Resistance At long last, we are deep diving the resistance the first and only social deduction game we've covered on this podcast. Because the game is so different from other things we've covered, you should expect a different kind of conversation. You can trust me y'al...
Jan 31, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 155
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 154 - Roll and Write Trying something new here. This week we explore not, not two, but all of the roll and write games. That's right, we're taking on the whole roll and write genre. What types of decisions are found in these games, what does the genre do well, and maybe what is b...
Jan 24, 2024•56 min•Ep. 154
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 153 - Jake Played 19 Games at Geekway Mini I played 19 games this weekend at Geekway Mini and I'm still tired, BUT I couldn't be more excited to share my amazing weekend with the rest of the crew and passengers aboard the Interdecisional Spaceship. TSpecial shoutout to Luke, Jare...
Jan 17, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 153
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 152 - Planet Unknown The Interdecisional Spaceship blasts off for the first deep dive of 2024. This week we cover Planet Unknown, designed by Ryan Lambert , Adam Rehberg . This game is a mess... but we kind of love it for that. Listen in to a great discussion on why that is in th...
Jan 10, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 152
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 151 - The Future of Decision Space The future is now. We've conquered the first 150 episodes (I still can't believe that number) of Decision Space, and so we set our Interdecisional Spaceship on course for a new frontier. While long-time listeners will notice some passing similar...
Jan 03, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 151
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 150 - We Rank Every Game Year End Special (Episode 150!!!) This is the 150th episode of Decision Space. I really can hardly believe it, and how fitting it is that it lands on the annual year-end special where we look back at and rank every game from every deep dive this year. Eve...
Dec 20, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 150
