Decision Space
181 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsDecision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games.
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The Isle of Cats - Are These Ghost Cats?!
August 04, 2022 16:11 - 1 hour - 162 MBDecision 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 79 - The Isle of Cats If you are reading this then you have been lured into our basket by the wafting smell of fresh fish. Ha! Never fear, we are transporting you to safety in our Interdecisional Spaceship. While you are here though, you might as well enjoy our deep dive discussion about the decisions...
Living Forest - WE’RE DOING THE HOTNESS
July 27, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 161 MBDecision 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 78 - Living Forest Interdecisional Spaceship passengers, it is the moment you have been waiting for. A moment many thought, us included, would never come. Though it may go against our morals, religion, and ethos, for one day only on Decision Space, we are doing the hotness! That's right, we are coveri...
TOP 10 - Games We Are Enjoying in 2022 (So Far)
July 20, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 188 MBDecision 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 77 - Top 10 Games We Are Enjoying in 2022 (So Far) Interdecisional Spaceship passengers, there has been a sudden change of course. Today we are back with another discussion topic episode, rather than the aforementioned plan to cover Living Forest (next week). Instead, today we each share the top 10 ga...
Mechanics that MAKE the Game with Special Guest Gnarly Carley
July 13, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 143 MBDecision 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 76 - Mechanics that Make the Game with Special Guest Gnarly Carley This week we are joined on the Interdecisional Spaceship bridge by a special guest, co-pilot Gnarly Carley. In the episode, we each highlight four games that we individually feel are examples where a single mechanic MAKES the game... w...
Space Base - Augmenting Randomness in Space
July 06, 2022 10:00 - 59 minutes - 135 MBDecision 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 75 - Space Base New microphone who dis? That's right, you are hearing new crispy clean audio thanks to our crew at Patreon. Jake has finally updated from a usb microphone to a full-on podmic and audio interface (ooh shiny). We hope it makes a difference and than you sincerely for supporting our show! ...
Depth and Size in Board Games (What We Talk About)
June 29, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 158 MBDecision 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 74 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Depth and Size in Board Game Decision Space This week on Decision Space we break out a fan-favorite format and go deep into the concepts of decision space size and depth in board games. We try to define these terms as well as discuss how they are useful in th...
Lost Cities - Reiner Knizia Master of Theme
June 23, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 143 MBDecision 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 t...
Riftforce - What’s This Lifestyle Dueling Card Game Doing In My Euro Filler?
June 15, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 161 MBDecision 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 th...
Board Game Design Process (What We Talk About)
June 08, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 148 MBDecision 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, protot...
Bärenpark - PWH Fan Club Meeting with Special Guest Paul Salomon
June 01, 2022 18:05 - 1 hour - 157 MBDecision 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 ...
Ganz Schön Clever (That’s Pretty Clever) - Wolfgang’s World
May 25, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 150 MBDecision 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 ga...
Reviewing FOURTEEN Games - Geekway Convention Recap
May 18, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 198 MBDecision 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 minutes. ...
Games Are Agency As Art - A New Way To Talk about Games With C. Thi Nguyen
May 11, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 165 MBDecision 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 ...
Downforce - We Have Concerns
May 04, 2022 10:44 - 1 hour - 141 MBDecision 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 Dis...
Sushi Go! with Azul Queen’s Garden on My Mind
April 27, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 153 MBDecision 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 al...
Audience Q&A - What Is the Best Board Game To Eat?
April 20, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 150 MBDecision 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 T...
Tigris and Euphrates, Pt.2
April 13, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 155 MBDecision 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 Spa...
Tigris and Euphrates PART ONE
April 07, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 173 MBDecision 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 thi...
Tigris and Euphrates, Pt. 1
April 07, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 173 MBDecision 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 thi...
Great Western Trail - A Straight Shootin’ Strategy Game
March 30, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 154 MBDecision 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 ...
Playing 30 Games at Once! What We’ve Learned from Digital Play (What We Talk About)
March 23, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 140 MBDecision 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 simulta...
A Feast for Odin - The Feast Is a LIE
March 16, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 152 MBDecision 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...
A New Way To Talk About Objectives in Games (What We Talk About)
March 09, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 158 MBDecision 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, juxtapose...
Broom Service - Knowing the COWARDLY Mind of the Opponent
March 02, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 167 MBDecision 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 int...
Our Board Game Biases (What We Talk About)
February 23, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 151 MBDecision 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...
Cartographers - You Draw a Map!
February 16, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 149 MBDecision 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 t...
Cascadia - The Cascadia Kid with Special Guest Maya Polan
February 09, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBDecision 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...
Tempo in Board Games and What It Isn’t (What We Talk About)
February 01, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 53.2 MBDecision 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 53 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Tempo in Board Games and What It Isn't This game has a great tempo! That move just gained you so much tempo! I have tempo in this situation! All of these phrases can say a lot about a game, a game state, and a game's decision space. The challenge is that in e...
Evolution: Climate - Keep Your Politics in My Evolution Board Game?!
January 26, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 69.8 MBDecision 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 52 - Evolution: Climate This week we begin with a brief "What's on Your Mind" discussion. Brendan has been playing Calico, and Jake recaps an epic birthday game day. After that, we hop right into our signature deep dive discussion of the Evolution system with a focus on Evolution: Climate, designed by...
Palaces of Carrara - Can You Grok the Block?
January 19, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBClick on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon) Episode 51 - Palaces of Carrara Jake and Brendan are back in the interdecisional spaceship and - look out! - we're heading straight for Kramer and Kiesling's 2012 game Palaces of Carrara -- a decision space some call ungrokable. Find out what we say as wee discuss this sleek design that's oddly hard to talk about in this week;s episode of Decision Space, the podcast abou...
Episode 50! (Mission Planning 10 Games We Want to Explore in 2022 and Aspirations)
January 12, 2022 11:00 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBClick on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 50 - Mission Planning 10 Games We Want to Explore in 2022, Podcast Aspiration, Book Club, and a Big Announcement Our biggest milestone yet -- episode 50! In this episode, we do a little pre-planning of our own and discuss 10 we want to cover imminently in 2022. We also share our podcast aspirations for 2022. If that wasn't enough, we have two announcements. For one, we will be starting the first ever Decision...
Splendor - The Little Engine That Could (Not Be Killed?)
January 05, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBClick on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 49 - Splendor The week we change things up. No, really! It's the return of the "What's on Your Mind" segment where Jake and Brendan each share one game that we've been playing lately. Then we take off for Splendor's decision space in our interdecisional spaceship. We ask if this mega-hit is truly an engine building game, and, returning to Splendor after some time away, we ask if these gems still shine as brig...
We Rank EVERY Game - 2021 End of Year Special
December 29, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 76.1 MBClick on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 48 - End of Year Special where We Rank Every Game Featured on Decision Space in 2021 In the end of year special edition of Decision Space, we rank every game featured on the show this year from 30 to 1. Thank you for making this first year of Decision Space such a wonderful experience. Here's to even bigger things in 2022. Games Featured in this Episode Kanagawa, Carpe Diem, Res Arcana, Underwater Cities, T...
Azul - Clones The Castles of Burgundy‘s Decision Space?!
December 22, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 54.2 MBClick on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Click on this link to participate in our end of the year community top 10 poll. Episode 47 - Azul 2018 Spiel Des Jahres winner, the 58th best game of all time on Board Game Geek, and designed by the esteemed Michael Kiesling, you don't need our podcast to tell you that Azul is a good game. So today on Decision Space, we dive deep into the decision space that emerges from Azul's simple set of mechanisms as players t...
Raiders of the North Sea - A Raid to Remember
December 15, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBClick on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 46 - Raiders of the North Sea If you've been playing hobby board games over the past six years, then you likely have at least a passing awareness of the output of Garphill games and designer Shem Phillips. (If you are new to hobby board games, then welcome!) In today's episode we cover the Garphill Game that first put Shem on ther radar for many of us, Raiders of the North Sea. Raiders is a worker placement g...
Irrational Actors (What We Talk About with Tony Faber)
December 08, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 45.8 MBClick on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 45 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Irrational Actors with Special Guest Tony Faber Is a new player pretty much the same thing as a drunk player? This is just one of the many hard-hitting questions we'll dig into (seriously) on this week's episode of Decision Space. The topic of irrational actors at the board game table, an unwieldy topic that spans social contracts, sobriety, siding with spies, and so...
Kingdom Builder - We‘re Gonna Need A Bigger Decision Space
December 01, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 90.8 MBClick on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 44 - Kingdom Builder Back with yet another classic game and yet another Spiel De Jahres winner, this week on Decision Space it is Kingdom Builder. We bring out our magnifying glasses to explore the decisions in this game, and it is a good thing we did because is the smallest decision space we've come across yet. But perhaps a small decision space is all you need to have a great time and, after all, this game ...
Patchwork - Buttons Rule Everything Around Me
November 24, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 87.3 MBClick on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 43 - Patchwork We may have topped ourselves and put out our giggliest episode ever! It's true, we laughed a lot and had a great time exploring the decisions in Uwe Rosenberg's classic Patchwork. This is a game that hides a lot (of negative points) under its adorable (or gruesome - hello Halloween edition) exterior. Don't get it twisted. The game's cute, but to become the Button Master, you'll hash it out in a...
Objective Vs. Subjective Decision Space (What We Talk About)
November 17, 2021 11:00 - 58 minutes - 83.5 MBClick on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 42 - Objective Versus Subjective Decision Space (WWTA) For the first time, we revisit a topic discussed on our 3rd ever episode, decision space. (Yeah, like the name of the show.) Specifically, we try to add nuance to the original discussion with something that has been coming up a lot in our game discussions, the subjective nature of decision space. We look at what parts of a decision space are objective, wh...
7 Wonders Duel with Special Guest Jamey Stegmaier
November 10, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 88.2 MBClick on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 41 - 7 Wonders Duel Jake, Brendan, and Jamey Stegmaier hop in the Interdecisional Spaceship to talk 7 Wonders Duel on this week's episode. We talk about the way that three truly viable win conditions and the many simultaneous games of tug-of-war shape the decision space in this powerhouse Bauza and Cathala team-up design. You won't want to miss it. And if you can spare a moment to like and review this podcast...
Race for the Galaxy - Phases Set To Fun
November 03, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 94.3 MBClick on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 40 - Race for the Galaxy Race for the Galaxy, designed by Tom Lehman. Enough said. Get in here! Preplan Your Next Turn Next time on Decision Space we explore the decisions in Seven Wonders: Duel! Music Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgy...
10 Decision Spaces We Want To Explore ASAP - Mission Planning (New type of episode?!)
October 27, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 87.6 MBClick on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 39 - 10 Decision Spaces We Want To Explore ASAP (Mission Planning #1) For the first time, we discuss games we haven't played. That's right. We are trying out a brand new type of episode that we are tentatively titling Mission Planning. In this episode, we discuss 10 games (5 each) that we can't wait to get to play. This includes new games, hotness, and it wouldn't be Decision Space if it didn't include some o...
Spirit Island - Imposing Depths of Indomitable Board Game
October 20, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBClick on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 38 - Spirit Island This week is Spirit Island by designer R. Eric Reuss. A serious game for serious gamers that defies expectations in the best possible way. Here's an admission, we were a bit nervous to cover this game and its mammoth decision space. As we explored the game in preparation for this episode, t felt as if no amount of plays would be enough, but perhaps more than anything else that is a testamen...
Praga Caput Regni - The Actions on the Wheel Go Round and Round
October 13, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 92 MBClick on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community! Episode 37 - Praga Caput Regni We discuss designer Vladimir Suchý's follow-up to Underwater Cities, Praga Caput Regni, where instead of building underwater cities, players will build one on land city! This is a heavy euro game with tons of decisions centered around an innovative action selection mechanic that encourages players not to put all of their eggs in one basket. In our discussion, we won't walk on eggshells ...
A New Way To Talk About Theme (What We Talk About)
October 06, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBClick on the link to join our brand new Discord community! Episode 36 - What We Talk About When We Talk About A New Way To Talk About Theme In this week's episode, we go old-school Decision Space and hit you with a new framework for discussing themes in board games. There is an environmental theme, a mechanical theme, and, of course, a decision space theme! We explain the framework and then put it through its paces trying to fill out the entire gaming theme matrix from high, high, high...
Kingdomino - What‘s Hiding Beneath This Quirky Art?
September 29, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 88.4 MBClick on the link to join our brand new Discord community! Episode 35 - Kingdomino Zany kingdoms, quirky art, and dominos make Kingdomino one of the warmest welcomes to the board game hobby we've ever come across, but could there be a demanding competitive experience hidden beneath this apparently simple game? You'll have to hop in to find out, the Interdecisional Space ship takes off in 3... 2... 1! Music Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Rea...
Imhotep - The Perfect Poached Egg?
September 22, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 88.5 MBClick on the link to join our brand new Discord community! Episode 34 - Imhotep This week on Decision Space, Imhotep! Designed by Phil Walker-Harding and a 2016 Spiel Des Jahres Nominee is a game about placing rocks, sailing boats, and getting in each other's way all the while. There isn't much more to it than that in this incredibly simple poached egg. I mean game. Will Jake and Brendan find this poached egg of a game to be bland, or will a perfectly runny yolk, fluffy texture, and pi...
Our Personal Top 10 Games (What We Talk About)
September 15, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 95.4 MBClick on the link to join our brand new Discord community! Episode 33 - What We Talk When We Talk About Our Top 10 Games After 32 episodes Jake and Brendan break down and give you the board game content that you want and deserve. In this very special episode, we each share our personal top 10 games as well as a few honorable mentions. What are your top 10 games? Who's list is better? Jump into the conversation in our Discord channel to let us know what you think! Music Credits Thank ...
Jaipur - Jake EVISCERATES It
September 08, 2021 10:00 - 46 minutes - 64.8 MBClick on the link to join our brand new Discord community! Episode 32 - Jaipur Jaipur is a widely revered, frequently recommended two-player set collectin' card game designed by Sebastian Pauchon and published in 2009. We give Jaipur a bath in the Decision Spa and then take it out back and give it what for as we discuss its decision space and some of the design choices that we don't agree with! Join us in the Interdecisional Spaceship as we set course for a brutal new episode of Decisi...
Villagers - Are These Combos?
September 01, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 95.9 MBClick on the link to join our brand new Discord community! Episode 31 - Villagers Villagers is a 2019 game with art and design by Haakon Gaarder and published by Sinister Fish. To be frank, we go all over the place as we discuss this lightweight tableau-building card-drafting game. The free-flowing conversation takes us through rigidity in combos, satisfaction in decisions, frustration in limitations and much more. Whether you like Villagers, don't like Villagers, or have never even he...