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...
Dec 13, 2023•58 min•Ep. 149
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 148 - Heat Deep Dive This week we are doing a classic, patented Decision Space Deep Dive (where we say our ratings at the beginning of the episode) on Heat: Pedal to the Metal. Heat is a hot new board game (classic us) designed by Asger Harding Granerud , Daniel Skjold Pedersen ,...
Dec 06, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 148
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 147 - 2023 Holiday Board Game Gift Guide This week Decision Space veers towards consumerism at the seasonally appropriate time. We bring you our best insights on what games will make good gifts to the people in your life (we hope) by answering prompts shared in our discord. Inter...
Nov 29, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 147
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 146 - Five Knizia Hidden Gems with Jared Ingersoll Oops, Jake forgot his microphone! No worries though, Jared Ingersoll President of the Reiner Knizia Fan Club was willing to jump in and share his top 5 hidden Knizia gems. These picks come straight out of his personal collection ...
Nov 22, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 146
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...
Nov 15, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 145
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 144 - Replayability It's a classic what we talk about episode on replayability! (And there was much rejoicing.) We discuss 6 factors that make a game replayability and how they intersect. Then, Jake asks a deep question and we ponder if replayability even matters after all. At th...
Nov 08, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 144
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 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 implem...
Nov 01, 2023•52 min•Ep. 143
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 hav...
Oct 25, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 142
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 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 listen in. Topics include Jake'...
Oct 18, 2023•50 min•Ep. 141
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 140 - The Spooktacular (Can Games Be Scary and Game Recommendations To Play this Spooky Season) Pumpkin spice is in the air, and we are in the mood for some spooky times with our favorite hobby. In this episode we consider if games can be scary and share recommendations for spook...
Sep 27, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 140
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 139 - Torres So we may be a little obsessed with Kramer and Kiesling games, but we felt compelled to share our thoughts on Torres -- a spiel winner and honorary 4th game in "the mask trilogy." In this episode, we return to our classic deep dive format where we share ratings and r...
Sep 20, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 139
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 138 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Balance, Part Two ...And we're back with part two of the balance what we talk about episode. This time we dive into questions of perceived balance vs. objective balance, and do we really want an objectively balanced game? If so, who is ...
Sep 13, 2023•59 min•Ep. 138
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 137 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Balance, Part One There are no rules on the Interdecisional Spaceship. We break from tradition and declare that "What We Talk About" episodes can be two parters. Today, we deliver the first part of our topical episode on balance in boar...
Sep 06, 2023•52 min•Ep. 137
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 136 - Top 10 Games We Are Enjoying in 2023 In this week's episode we count down the TOP 10 board games we are enjoying, so far, in 2023. This is distinctly not a discussion of games released in 2023, rather it is about the games that we are playing, that are hitting our tables th...
Aug 30, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 136
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...
Aug 23, 2023•56 min•Ep. 135
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 134 - Ark Nova Ark Nova anyone? Maybe you've heard of it? This week, the Interdecisional Spaceships embarks on a journey to explore the decisions in the highest rated game that we've ever dared to cover on this humble podcast. That's right, folks, today we are covering the 4th gr...
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 134
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 133 - LTF Con Recap Last weekend the infamous Laughing Table Friends -- Charlie, Jake, Jared, Luke, and Tyler -- got together for the first ever LTF Con. The 5 person con took place over an unforgettable day and a half as the crew played 13 unique board games. It was a mix of new...
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 133
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 132 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Games That Play Fast Good luck keeping up with the conversation in this week's throwback WWTA episode, because things move fast . If you don't believe me, then check the timestamps. We throw out games quicker than you can say, "I miss o...
Aug 02, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 132
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 131 - Pushing Your Luck Feat. Spots and Can't Stop Today we consider the push your luck mechanic in board games, highlighting Can't Stop and Spots for short reviews. In the second half we touch on a bunch of games that stick out to us as examples of what push your luck is, what i...
Jul 26, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 131
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 cut b...
Jul 19, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 130
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 129 - Challengers! Donald X. Vaccarino's Dominion famously popularized the deck building mechanic, forever changing the landscape of board gaming. Is it possible that a silly little card game called Challengers! will do the same for auto battlers? Buckle up Interdecisional Spaces...
Jul 12, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 129
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 128 - If We Can Only Keep 10 Games Thought Experiment ERROR! ERROR! Something has gone horribly wrong in the Interdecisional Spaceship. The only way to correct course is to dump cargo out of the storage bay. We ran the numbers, and there is only space left on this ship for 10 gam...
Jul 05, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 128
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/Wab...
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 127
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 126 - Answering ALL of Reddit's Board Game Questions In this bonus episode of Decision Space, we answer questions found on r/boardgames. Pre-Planners Chicago Express (Wabash Cannonball), Challengers! are in our hopper. Ark Nova is also going into the queue. Music and Sound Credit...
Jun 23, 2023•51 min•Ep. 126
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 125 - Designer Space on Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling For the first time, Decision Space attempts to explore the ludography and design ethos of a famous board game designer. We are nothing if not ambitious, so perhaps unwisely, this first effort features two designers - Wo...
Jun 21, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 125
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, rela...
Jun 14, 2023•53 min•Ep. 124
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 pronunciations for Troyes, a board game published by Pearl Games a...
Jun 07, 2023•56 min•Ep. 123
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 122 - Rondel Roundtable Feat. Findorff and Imperial 2030 Rondels baby! What could be more exciting than that? It's your favorite board gamer's favorite board game mechanism. RONDEL. Excuse me. Okay, now that that is out of my system, in this week's episode of Decision Space, we s...
May 31, 2023•56 min•Ep. 122
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 t...
May 25, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 121
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 played! Pre-Pl...
May 17, 2023•55 min•Ep. 120
