PODCAST

Decision Space

Jacob Frydman, Brendan Hansen

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

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74:19

Every Game I'm Shufflin': Deckbuilding 201 and Dune...

Decision Space ·

2025/11/12

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 240 - Deckbuilding 201 Part 2 of our deckbuilding series continues with hybrid designs! Pete and Jake discuss board games that utilize deckbuilding as a mechanism, with a special focus on Paul Dennen's Dune Imperium games. Also Jake comes to the realization that a deckbuilding

83:37

Spatial Puzzles and Tile Laying Tropes

Decision Space ·

2025/11/05

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 239 - Spatial Puzzles and Tile Laying Tropes Brendan and Paul dig deep into the mechanisms behind tile-laying games. What are the different decisions players make with tiles and what makes them special? Also, a mini deep dive on Paris: La Cite de la Lumiere Also, DECISON SPACE

83:59

Fighting Games of Understanding and Tag Team Review...

Decision Space ·

2025/10/29

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 238 - Fighting Games and Tag Team Jake, Brendan, and special guest Luke Williams of the Laughing Table Friends are here to talk about the fighting game video game genre and review a new card game that simulates the very same thing, Tag Team. Also, we announce DECISON SPACE MERCH

74:56

Design Day Recap: Feedback, Feelings, and Fun

Decision Space ·

2025/10/22

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 237 - Design Day Recap Pete, Paul, and Jake share their experiences at Stonemaier Design Day 2025. They discuss games they demoed and played while shooting the breeze about what to do with player feedback and how to figure out the next steps for your designs. Timestamps 04:30-

54:19

The Best Components of All Time

Decision Space ·

2025/10/15

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 236 - The Best Components of All Time The whole gang is together for a VERY silly episode that acts as a finale to our component series. We do a competitive draft to see who has the best collection of components and also pick out some of our favorite board game productions of all

74:12

Chunky Decisions and Other Design Lessons with Jon Perry

Decision Space ·

2025/10/08

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 235 - Design Lessons with Jon Perry Tabletop and video game designer Jon Perry joins us for a discussion of the tabletop design lessons that inspire his own work. Check out the GDC talk that inspired the episode here:

76:53

Deckbuilding 101 and Dominion

Decision Space ·

2025/10/01

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 234 - Deckbuilding 101 and Dominion Pete and Brendan dig into one of the most popular mechanisms in modern gaming: deckbuilding? Why is it so popular? How does a deckbuilding decision space flip engine building on its head? For today's Deckbuilding 101 class, we of course use

73:58

Meeples, Money, and Other Chit

Decision Space ·

2025/09/24

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 233 - Meeples, Money, and Other Chit Our exploration of board game components continues! In this episode Jake, Brendan, and Paul talk about all the bits in a game! How do decisions about specific tokens and trackers impact the experience of playing a game? Do these production

73:28

Brain Burning Decision Spaces and Castles of Mad King...

Decision Space ·

2025/09/17

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 232 - Brain Burning Decision Spaces and Castles of Mad King Ludwig Pete and Brendan explore what types of games give us that satisfying (and sometimes exhausting) feeling of "brain burn". Why do we like this? Are board gamers a bunch of masochists? Also, we deep dive the classic

66:12

Dice Are Nice

Decision Space ·

2025/09/10

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 231 - Dice Are Nice Jake and Brendan present the fourth installment in our component series. This time, they dive deep into dice and all the interesting implications they bring to a game's decision space. Input randomness? We got that. Output randomness? You better believe

114:43

Expanding Root (Deep Dive Part 2)

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2025/09/03

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 230 - Expanding Root Pete and Brendan bring you the jumbo sized sequel to episode 219. We dig into the decision spaces of all six Root expansion factions! We also talk about the new boards and cards. This is our sort of farewell love letter to this amazing game. We ran pretty

01:12:36

Trick-Taking With A Twist

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2025/08/27

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 229 - Trick-Taking With A Twist Pete and Paul dive deep into the twists behind the modern trick-taking renaissance. How have designers been keeping this centuries old style of card game fresh for players? How far can you twist the decision space of playing into a trick? Listen to

01:03:06

Apiary and Positive Player Interaction

Decision Space ·

2025/08/20

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 228 - Apiary and Positive Player Interaction Jake and Pete do a semi deep dive on Apiary and follow it up with a sort of debate about what does and does not qualify as "positive player interaction." Things get spicy enough that we're already planning a follow-up episode on the

01:10:46

All About Boards

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2025/08/13

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 227 - All About Boards Jake and Brendan continue our series on game components with a deep dive on BOARDS! What types of boards exist? How do they enhance the experience of playing a game? What are the best boards? Are tiles also boards? Timestamps 5:00- what are

01:10:13

Exploring Cardboard Worlds: Earthborne Rangers and...

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2025/08/06

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 226 - Exploring Cardboard Worlds Special guest Dan Thurot of Space Biff joins Pete for a discussion about open worlds games. They get into the different design philosophies of these games in different mediums and use Earthborne Rangers and Vantage as case studies for modern board

59:36

Top Games of the 00's That Are Worth Playing in 2025

Decision Space ·

2025/07/30

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 225 - Best Games of the 2000s In a bit of friendly competition, we attempt to draft the best set of games from the first decade of the century that have stood the test of time. Pete is the real villain of this one. Be sure to hop on discord and vote for the host who drafted the

01:07:09

Board Game Junk Food

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2025/07/23

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 224 - Board Game Junk Food The gang gets slightly unhinged this week discussing what is the board game equivalent of trashy TV. Also Brendan can't stop thinking about Doritos. Game Timestamps 10:05- Hot Streak 15:00- Feudum 16:00- A Feast for Odin 16:45- Agricola: Dead

01:00:19

An Ode to the Tile, the Best Component in Tabletop...

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2025/07/16

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 223 - Ode to the Tile In this quite academic episode, Paul goes into full teacher mode with Brendan to discuss the many ways different types of tiles are used in board games. Stay tuned to hear Paul use the term "recreational mathematics" MULTIPLE times! Timestamps 2:00-

01:02:15

What Have Pete and Jake Been Playing?

Decision Space ·

2025/07/09

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 222 - What have we been playing? In this very chill episode, Jake and Pete discuss some recent plays of some new and old games. Listen for such unexpected topics as: Mac Gerdts designs a rondel game??? Pete talks about a trick-taking game??? Jake plays a Kramer and Kiesling

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

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