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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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Return of the Game Night (What We Talk About)

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2021/05/05

Click on the link to join our brand new Discord community! Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games and now on YouTube. Episode Fifteen - Return of the Game Night (What We Talk About) Jake and Brendan have a nice chat about returning to in-person play after so much time away. It's a conversation, as Brendan eloquently points out, that is like the scene in Star Wars where everyone takes a break to play chess, except with no mad Wookies. We also congratulate Brendan on

01:18:05

Star Realms with Paul Salomon - But Why Four Factions?!

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2021/04/28

Click on the link to join our brand new Discord community! Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games and now on YouTube. Episode Fourteen - Star Realms with Paul Salomon We are honored to be joined by board game designer Paul Salomon, perhaps best known for his recent hit game Honey Buzz, to talk about Star Realms. Star Realms, designed by Robert Dougherty and Darwin Kastle, is a game Paul is very familiar with, and he came prepared to school us on the inner workings of

01:15:48

El Grande - Is this "Classic" Game Actually GOOD?

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2021/04/21

Click on the link to join our brand new Discord community! Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games and now on YouTube. Episode Thirteen - Does El Grande Hold Up to 25 Years of Innovation? The year was 1996, one year after the release of a little game we like to call Settlers of Catan (or just Catan now, I guess). The German board game circuit is absolutely buzzing about the exciting future for board games hobby and designers are poised to risk it all with their next

01:08:05

A New Way To Talk About Games (What We Talk About)

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2021/04/14

Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games and now on YouTube. Episode Twelve - We Invented a New Way To Talk About Games There's Waxing and Waning and Dynamic and Static, but do you recall, the most famous decision framework of all? Well, Brendan has really went and done it this time. That's right, he invented a whole new way to talk about games. On this episode, we'll talk about this new paradigm and way to frame future discussions of decision space on Decision Space

01:11:22

Welcome To... - Little Boxes

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2021/04/07

Click on the link to join our brand new Discord community! Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games and now on YouTube. Episode Eleven Little boxes on the worksheet Little boxes filled with tricky tracks Little boxes on the worksheet Little boxes all the same There's a pool one and a park one And a fence one and a double one And they all cross off scoring tracks And they all work just the same Welcome to... episode eleven! (See what I did there?) Today, we talk

01:21:01

Magic: The Gathering - A Battle of Wits?

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2021/03/31

Join our brand new Discord community! Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games and now on YouTube. Episode Ten It's our the big one-zero, and we make it a doozy by covering the legendary Magic: The Gathering. Was it perhaps too bold to attempt to cover the decisions in Magic: The Gathering in a single podcast episode? Yes. Definitely yes. But hey, you have to give us some points for trying. Magic is a game that needs no introduction. It's a game that has stood the test

01:21:30

Competitive Play (What We Talk About)

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2021/03/24

Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games and now on YouTube. Episode Nine - What We Talk About When We Talk About Competitive Play It turns out we talk about a whole lot when we talk about competitive play.* We ask what is competitive play and try to define it. We share our own histories in competitive gaming. We also think of the benefits and not-so-benefits of engaging in competitive play, including the potential pitfall of the "Levine Ravine." We conclude the episode

01:06:21

The Fox in the Forest - It's Like Chess and Basketball

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2021/03/10

Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games and now on YouTube. Episode Seven We discuss the two-player trick-taking game The Fox in the Forest, designed by Joshua Buergel and published by Foxtrot Games. For the first time, Jake and Brendan significantly disagree on their rating for this game, but both agree that the game is a lot like basketball. No really. Preplan Your Next Turn On Next week's episode, we will discuss the terraforming mars game, Terraforming

37:36

The Value of Games with Jamey Stegmaier (What We Talk...

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2021/03/03

Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games and now on YouTube. Episode Six In our second "What We Talk About" episode, we had the pleasure to speak with Jamey Stegmaier of Stonemaier Games about the "Value" of games. While we talk a lot on Decision Space about the decisions in games, this conversation focuses instead on the decision to games... and why you should games too. Games Mentioned in this episode: Red Rising The Fox in the Forest Sagrada Magic: the

56:48

Underwater Cities - Let Them Eat Kelp

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2021/02/24

Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games and now on YouTube. Episode Five Today we discuss a game that is definitively not about terraforming Mars. This game could literally not be any less about terraforming Mars if tried! That's right. We are talking, of course, about the wonderful Underwater Cities. After all, as a wise lobster once said, life under the sea is better than anything they got up there. On this episode, we consider the lobster, and it may be on to

01:05:26

Res Arcana - Start Your Engines! (Emphasis on Start)

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2021/02/17

Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games and now on YouTube. Episode Four We discuss Res Arcana and boy are my arms tired! Seriously, this was a difficult game to cover on a podcast about decisions. Nevertheless, Jake and Brendan give it their best shot to pull apart the threads of this tightly wound gaming package to see what's inside! What's in the box?! Look Ahead On Next week's episode, we will discuss Underwater Cities by Vladimír Suchý. You can play Underwater

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Decision Space (What We Talk About)

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2021/02/10

Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games. Episode Three This is our very first discussion topic show! We are calling these our "What We Talk About" episodes, which will pop up every third episode or so. In this week's episode, you'll hear what we (Brendan and Jake) talk about when we talk about decision space. No. We aren't talking about the show itself. We are trying to define the term "decision space" in the context of board gaming. The term is ubiquitous in our

54:23

Carpe Diem - Stefan Feld's Masochistic Pain Land

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2021/02/04

Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games. Today, Jake and Brendan tackle Carpe Diem, a 2018 board game where you try to get some grapes and then quickly realize you can't. Carpe Diem is designed by Stefan Feld and published by Alea. We are desperate to hear your feedback. We can be reached on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. Or you can be the very first to follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there! Music Credits Way Home by Tokyo Music

55:30

Kanagawa - Let's Paint Some Murals!

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2021/02/04

Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games. In this pilot episode, Jake and Brendan discuss the decisions in Kanagawa, a 2016 board game about learning how to paint well and somehow making your friends mad at the same time. Kanagawa is designed by Bruno Cathala and Charles Chevallier and published by IELLO. We are desperate to hear your feedback. We can be reached on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. Or you can be the very first to follow Decision Space on Twitter

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