PODCAST

Decision Space

Jacob Frydman, Brendan Hansen

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

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All Episodes

01:14:43

Player Count Problems and Solutions

Decision Space ·

2025/07/02

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 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 that you

01:16:57

Mail Time! (Ask Us Anything)

Decision Space ·

2025/06/25

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 Timestamps 02:20- Clockwork Wars 03:40-

01:47:39

Root: the Greatest Game of All Time?

Decision Space ·

2025/06/18

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- game

01:13:29

Lifestyle Games (What We Talk About)

Decision Space ·

2025/06/11

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 218 - Lifestyle Games What we talk about when we talk about lifestyle games. Are they worth sinking all your time and money into? Let's discuss! Timestamps 4:15 what is a lifestyle game? 30:00 what do we like about lifestyle games? 37:00 what do we dislike about lifestyle

01:04:54

The Wow Factor of Games

Decision Space ·

2025/06/04

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 217 - The Wow Factor What makes you stop and say "wow" when playing a game? Listen to Jake workshop his newly patented "Six Kinds of Wow"! Special guest Bill Collins! Game Timestamps 3:00 Vivo 4:10 Anachrony 6:30 Cat in the Box 10:00 Yahtzee 10:30 Just One 11:20

56:39

Innovation and Games without Guard Rails (Look Mom,...

Decision Space ·

2025/05/28

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

01:06:06

We Played Hot Games at Geekway To the West!...

Decision Space ·

2025/05/21

SUPPORT ST. LOUIS TORNADO RELIEF EFFORTS HERE - https://foodcitystl.org/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 215 - The Laughing Table Friends Played Hot Games at Geekway To the West! Jake alongside fellow Laughing Table Friends members Luke Williams (first time on the pod!) and Jared Ingersoll (returning guest) talk

01:19:26

Top 10 Games of All Time (5 to 1)

Decision Space ·

2025/05/14

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 214 - Top 10 Games of All Time of All Hosts in 2025 (5 to 1) We finish off our top 10 lists, counting down from 5 to 1! Timestamps 0:00 - Show Business The Resistance - 3:35 Imhotep - 5:38 Dune Imperium: Uprising - 9:09 Keyflower - 12:30 El Grande - 15:40 Isle of Skye: From

01:24:10

Top 10 Games of All Time (Part One)

Decision Space ·

2025/05/07

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 - Show Business 4:05 - Modern

01:03:33

Cooperation, Communication, and Vantage with Jamey...

Decision Space ·

2025/04/30

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 212 - Cooperation, Communication, and Vantage with Jamey Stegmaier Jamey Stegmaier, disc golf enthusiast, omni gamer, and president/CEO of Stonemaier Games, drops by the show to talk about communication in cooperative games with Pete and Jake. We also discuss the upcoming vantage,

01:00:23

Let's Duel! Toy Battle and Dueling Games

Decision Space ·

2025/04/23

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 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 Dueling Games - 3:56 Main Topic -

01:15:26

Quintessential Pete and Paul Games

Decision Space ·

2025/04/16

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 209 - Quintessential Pete and Paul Games Get to know the new Decision Space hosts tastes in games. In this episode, these two old friends explore the games that are quintessential to their tastes and where those tastes fall on the decision space spectrum. Timestamps Show Business

01:05:56

F Is for Filler and Faraway

Decision Space ·

2025/04/09

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 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 -

01:06:09

This Episode Is Broken

Decision Space ·

2025/04/01

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 208 - This Episode Is Broken Welcome back to another episode of Decision Space, the only game that takes place right here, between the episodes of your favorite podcast! Good luck to all of our contestants and happy April Fools day! Timestamps Who Should Go First - 3:07 What's in

01:04:41

RIP To 3 Dearly Beloved Board Games

Decision Space ·

2025/03/26

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 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 Game

01:05:01

Can Games Be Mean?

Decision Space ·

2025/03/19

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 Games Mentioned In the year of the Dragon,

01:08:39

Drawing Cards Is the Best Mechanism in Board Games...

Decision Space ·

2025/03/12

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 all the

51:17

Expression in Board Games (What We Talk About)

Decision Space ·

2025/03/05

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

01:16:06

Types of Simultaneous Play and Fromage Deep Dive

Decision Space ·

2025/02/26

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 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 Intro and

01:10:06

Age of Innovation and Discussion on Sequels,...

Decision Space ·

2025/02/19

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 202 - Age of Innovation For the first time ever, it is Jake and Pete. We start with a discussion on Sequels, Expansions, Reimplementations and the muck that gets kicked up when certain publishers iterate. We then move into a notable example of game design iteration with the newest

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