PODCAST

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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01:01:09

Burgle Bros - Is This Pac-Man the Board Game?

Decision Space ·

2024/11/06

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 190 - Burgle Bros In this week's episode, we deep dive Burgle Bros, Tim Fower's self-published 2015 game that casts players as the cast of a heist movie! The theme rocks, but do the decisions and maze-game style play succeed? We'll talk about it. Timestamps Intro - 0:00 Ratings -

01:00:06

Play at Work (Business Casual Dress Code Strictly...

Decision Space ·

2024/10/31

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 189 - Play at Work In this unique episode, Jake makes the case to Brendan for play at work based on the slides from an upcoming presentation. Business casual dress will be strictly enforced for all Interdecisional Spaceship travellers listening in. Happy Halloween If you are

01:03:46

TOP 10 Games of the '90s with Jared Ingersoll

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2024/10/23

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 188 - Top 10 Games of the '90s In this episode 3 copilots take on a tall task - rank the top 10 best euro-style board games of the '90s. We try out a wacky new format, it is kind of confusing, but don't worry because Brendan catches on eventually. This episode may be best enjoyed

01:09:32

EGO - Does this New Knizia Game Come in Peace?

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2024/10/16

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 187 - EGO On this historic day, the Decision Space co-pilots have finally been talked into accepting a review copy of EGO from Bitewing games. While we couldn't play as many times as we normally do for a game deep dive, we did our darndest to give this game the full Decision Space

59:59

The Sweet Spot Mechanic (WWTA)

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2024/10/09

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 186 - What We Talk About When We Talk About the Sweet Spot Mechanic In this game we talk about the sweet spot mechanic, which is kind of but not quite a jackpot mechanic and an efficiency puzzle! We try to define this term and discuss the games that fit, a conversation that takes

01:02:59

Five Tribes - Still Hanging Tough on the BGG Top 100?!

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2024/10/02

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 185 - Five Tribes We return to a classic deep dive, covering Bruno Cathala's Five Tribes, a 2014 hit by Days of Wonder that remains on the BGG top 100. Five Tribes features unique, mancala style worker "displacement" mechanic, so you know we can't wait to sink our teeth in. Enjoy

52:39

What We Think About When We Think About Playtesting...

Decision Space ·

2024/09/25

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 184 - What We Think About When We Think About Playtesting with Paul Salomon In this episode Jake and Paul reflect on Stonemaier Design Day 2024, recording just one day after the event. Using that frame, we give 5ish tips to think about when playtesting your game or someone

47:40

Oops, We Played the Hotness (Stamp Swap, Wilmot's...

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2024/09/18

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 183 - Oops, We Played the Hotness (Stamp Swap, Wilmot's Warehouse and other Recent Plays) In this interlude episode, Jake and Brendan quickly discuss some games that have hit our tables lately and never previously discussed on the pod. Oops, we played some hot games. (Shut

01:01:49

Playing on Hard Mode (What We Talk About)

Decision Space ·

2024/09/11

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 182 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Playing on Hard Mode This week, we discuss Dr. Richard Garfield's (Magic: The Gathering, Bunny Kingdom) blog post about playing games on hard mode. Consider reading it here on Board Game Geek before you listen to the episode. In this

58:01

Games We Love To Lose (What We Talk About)

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2024/09/04

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 181 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Games We Love To Lose It's our first WWTA episode since April! In this one, we discuss the games we love to lose but then go deeper as we think about what characteristics give these games this unique quality. It's a great discussion that

56:45

Azul Summer Pavilion - Does this Reimplementation...

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2024/08/29

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 180 - Azul Summer Pavillion We discuss Azul Summer Pavillion and make the obvious comparison to the original Azul. We also consider board game implementations and ask the question if this one succeeds. Enjoy, friends, and it is good to be back after a short break! Timestamps Intro

01:09:44

18: BOARD GAME SIGNPOSTS (Re-Listening Club)

Decision Space ·

2024/08/21

Episode 18 of Decision Space, originally published May 26, 2021. Join us in the Discord community for the re-listening club discussion. "In this "What We Talk About Episode" Jake and Brendan discuss signposts in board games. We ask important questions like what are they even? And further, what do they do? To this end, Jake becomes increasingly more confused. Fortunately, we eventually come to some steady footing and draw conclusions about this board game terminology that we believe will lead to

01:11:20

22: Castles of Burgundy (Re-Listening Club)

Decision Space ·

2024/08/14

Episode 22 of Decision Space, originally published June 23, 2021. Join us in the Discord community for the re-listening club discussion. "Today, friends, feast your ears on one of tastiest point-salad morsels ever served up by the master chef himself, Mr. Stefan Feld. The Castles of Burgundy is a great, great game. Quite possibly the best board game ever made by the tastes of one of our hosts. But why is it so good? What is it about the decision space that makes it an experience so many people

01:25:34

The Ultimate Stefan Feld Tier List with Tyler Hackmann

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2024/08/07

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 179 - The Ultimate Stefan Feld Tier List with Tyler Hackmann This week we undertake a voyage that we have never dared to attempt before -- to create an ultimate, near-comprehensive tier list of Stefan Feld Games. We knew we couldn't do it alone, so we brought in friend and fellow

01:02:20

More Design Problems and Games that Solve Them with...

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2024/07/31

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

01:04:19

Tikal - Digging the Jungle

Decision Space ·

2024/07/24

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 -

58:22

Arcs, Food Chain, and the $%@! List (What We're Playing)

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2024/07/18

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 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,

01:12:34

10: Welcome To... (Re-Listening Club)

Decision Space ·

2024/07/10

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. "

56:59

Progression (What We Talk About)

Decision Space ·

2024/07/03

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) -

55:00

Art Awards 2024

Decision Space ·

2024/06/26

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 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

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