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Decision Space

Jacob Frydman, Brendan Hansen, Pete Wissinger, Paul Salomon

Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games.

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01:02:22

Lost Cities - Reiner Knizia Master of Theme

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2022/06/23

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 73 - Lost Cities It's Reiner Knizia day on the Decision Space Podcast! This time we are deep diving and exploring the decisions in Lost Cities. Like last week's feature game, Riftforce, this is a lane-based, 2-player card game, only this one came out 22 years prior -- making it a fantastic companion to last week's

01:10:09

Riftforce - What’s This Lifestyle Dueling Card Game...

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2022/06/15

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 72 - Riftforce Dust off your rift rocks (as they say) because today we are covering Riftforce. It isn't every day that we cover a new game on Decision Space, but Riftforce (2021), designed by Carlo Bortolini, was something of a perfect storm. First, Jake had the opportunity to play it at Geekway to the West and

01:04:49

Board Game Design Process (What We Talk About)

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2022/06/08

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,

01:08:44

Bärenpark - PWH Fan Club Meeting with Special Guest...

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2022/06/01

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 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

01:05:24

Ganz Schön Clever (That’s Pretty Clever) - Wolfgang’s...

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2022/05/25

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 69 - Ganz Schön Clever (That's Pretty Clever) This week we deep dive Ganz Schön Clever / That's Pretty Clever / Ganz Schön Whatever by the inspirational designer Wolfgang Warsch. Say what you will about the saturation of roll and write games in the market today. Way back in 2018, this clever little game was making

01:26:36

Reviewing FOURTEEN Games - Geekway Convention Recap

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2022/05/18

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 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

01:11:53

Games Are Agency As Art - A New Way To Talk about...

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2022/05/11

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 67 - Games are Agency as Art with C. Thi Nguyen We are joined by philosopher and author C. Thi Nguyen to discuss the ideas in his incredible book Games: Agency as Art. We touch on the value of games as an artistic medium, striving play vs. achievement play, flow state, and why fly fishing is the 18XX of, well,

01:01:46

Downforce - We Have Concerns

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2022/05/04

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 66 - Downforce Buckle your safety belts because this one gets a little bit bumpy. This week we cover Downforce, a Restoration Games remake of Wolfgang Kramer's original design with design work by Kramer, Rob Daviau, and Justin D. Jacobsen. Timestamps Intro - 0:00 Rules Overview - 7:36 Feature Discussion -

01:06:43

Sushi Go! with Azul Queen’s Garden on My Mind

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2022/04/27

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 65 - Sushi Go! Sushi Go! by Phil Walker-Harding is our feature game in this week's episode. As card-carrying members of the PWH fan club, we're excited to sink our teeth into this super-light game. We'll explore the decisions in the game and offer card-by-card analysis. If that wasn't enough, it is also the return

01:05:35

Audience Q&A - What Is the Best Board Game To Eat?

Decision Space ·

2022/04/20

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Call to Action Please nominate Decision Space for a Golden Geek award! Episode 64 - Audience Q&A You asked, and in this episode, we answer. We take on tons of great questions submitted by our audience (thank you so much to everyone who submitted a question) that range from seriously thought-provoking to seriously silly. More than ever before, join us in the Interdecisional Spaceship as we take off! Games Discussed Tigris and

01:07:33

Tigris and Euphrates, Pt.2

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2022/04/13

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 63 - Tigris and Euphrates Part Two Interdecisional Spaceship recalibrating. Charting return course to Tigris and Euphrates. Read Message: "Please join us for the exciting conclusion of our two-part series on the modern board game classic Tigris and Euphrates, the one where we actually Decision Space!" Now

01:15:31

Tigris and Euphrates, Pt. 1

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2022/04/07

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 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 game is

01:07:14

Great Western Trail - A Straight Shootin’ Strategy Game

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2022/03/30

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 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

01:00:59

Playing 30 Games at Once! What We’ve Learned from...

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2022/03/23

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 60 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Digital Play This episode is all about the way we play board games digitally and what we've learned from the experience. Our show would not be what is without the learnings that digital play affords. Jake also reveals just how many games he is playing simultaneously at

01:06:22

A Feast for Odin - The Feast Is a LIE

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2022/03/16

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 59 - A Feast for Odin An extravagant menu, satisfying options, and playing out over 7 courses, A Feast for Odin by Uwe Rosenberg delivers on the promise of a decadent gaming experience and then some. In this week's episode of Decision Space, we take a bite out of this sprawling decision space and give you, as

01:09:00

A New Way To Talk About Objectives in Games (What We...

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2022/03/09

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

01:13:01

Broom Service - Knowing the COWARDLY Mind of the...

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2022/03/02

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 57 - Broom Service Imagine if to fold in poker you had to say, "I'm a cowardly hill witch." Well, that is basically Broom Service in a nutshell, and I don't need to say more than that to tell you that Broom Service is an incredible game. We won't bury the lead this week. In today's episode, we hop into the

01:05:54

Our Board Game Biases (What We Talk About)

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2022/02/23

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 56 - Our Board Game Biases and Affinities Today's show topic is arguably the first one we should have ever done. In this What We Talk About episode, we dive into our board gaming biases and affinities. It is our hope that this episode helps you get to know your interdecisional spaceship co-pilots just a bit

01:05:06

Cartographers - You Draw a Map!

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2022/02/16

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 55 - Cartographers In this week's episode of Decision Space, we chart a course (heh) for the flip-n-write game Cartographers, designed by Jordy Aidan and published by Thunderworks Games, where players get to, get this, draw a map on their sheet of paper! If that sounds like fun, it is. But what does the game have

01:09:36

Cascadia - The Cascadia Kid with Special Guest Maya...

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2022/02/09

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 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

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