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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Feedback In Games (What We Talk About)
August 25, 2021 10:00 - 59 minutes - 89.1 MBClick on the link to join our brand new Discord community! Episode Thirty - Positive and Negative Feedback Types In this "What We Talk About Episode" Jake and Brendan reveal our new intro and outro music courtesy of Hembree. After that we discuss the various types of feedback in board games. This includes positive feedback, negative feedback, positive agency loops, incremental victory conditions, achievements, jackpots, losspots, and more. As always, it is our sincere hope that our dis...
The Sport of Kickball - Highest Rated Game Ever?!
August 18, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 93.2 MBClick on the link to join our Discord community! Episode 29 - The Sport of Kickball In this week's episode, Jake sits down with two friends in Lawrence, Kansas to talk about the sport of kickball. Special guest hosts Angela Finch and Simon Skinner share their passion for the game and knowledge about the decisions you'll make in kickball on and off the field. Just because it isn't a board game, doesn't mean there are a ton of great decisions to be found. Join us in our interdecisional sp...
Bruges - You've Got Grail
August 11, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 116 MBClick on the link to join our Discord community! Episode 28 - Bruges In this week's episode, Brendan is back! If that wasn't good enough news, we are also covering Bruges by Stefan Feld, the point salad game where you pay people to live in your houses. Never mind the thematic disconnect because these mechanisms are just, chefs kiss, amazing. We have a great discussion and we hope you will join us in the interdecisional spaceship as we set off for 15th century Belgium! Preplan Your N...
Ankh, Snakesss, and Sagrada - Paul and Jake Volume 2
August 04, 2021 10:00 - 58 minutes - 82.3 MBClick on the link to join our Discord community! Episode 27 - Jake and Paul Volume 2 Congratulations to Brendan on the birth of his child! We are so happy for him and his family. In his stead, friend of the show Paul Salomon (Honey Buzz designer) is here again to talk with Jake about a few recent plays including new hotness, Ankh! Interdecisional spaceship, set a course for fun! Preplan Your Next Turn Next week we discuss the decisions in Bruges by Stefan Feld! Call to Action ...
Keyflower - Keylove It or Keyhate It
July 28, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBClick on the link to join our Discord community! Episode 26 - Keyflower Today on Keycision Space, Keyflower! Keyflower is design by Sebastian Bleasdale and Richard Breese and published by R&D games in 2012. This game is a tangled web of auctions and logistics. Fun! Fun? It depends who you ask, but one thing is for sure, this is the 78th best board game of all time at the time of recording on BGG. Hop into our interdecisional keyship and we'll get into it PLUS we'll- explore a village wh...
The Art of Being Good (What We Talk About)
July 21, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 91 MBClick on the link to join our Discord community! Episode 25 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Being Good Jake and Brendan are back together on the microphones doing what we do best, talking about games and game peripheral things. Today's episode is a "what we talk about episode" where we talk about being good at games. This episode is a companion to a prior discussion on getting good. Once you have reached the mountain top, we ask the question, what next? Preplan Your Next Turn ...
Being Good
July 21, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 91 MBClick on the link to join our Discord community! Episode 25 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Being Good Jake and Brendan are back together on the microphones doing what we do best, talking about games and game peripheral things. Today's episode is a "what we talk about episode" where we talk about being good at games. This episode is a companion to a prior discussion on getting good. Once you have reached the mountain top, we ask the question, what next? Preplan Your Next Turn ...
Ares Expedition, Summer Camp, Juicy Fruits, and Fireball Island - Paul and Jake Talk Games
July 14, 2021 10:00 - 48 minutes - 66.9 MBClick on the link to join our Discord community! Episode 24 - Paul and Jake Talk Games When Brendan is away, Paul comes in to save the day. On this episode, I'm joined in studio (my house) by Paul Salomon (Honey Buzz and Genotype) to talk unscripted about our recent plays. We talk about Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition, Summer Camp, Juicy Fruits, Fireball Island, and more. Hop in the Interdecisional Spaceship and enjoy the episode, then join us to continue the conversation on discord! ...
Hey, That's My Fish! - Decisions Have Never Waned Harder
June 30, 2021 10:00 - 59 minutes - 92.2 MBClick on the link to join our Discord community! Episode 23 - Hey, That's My Fish Hey, That's My Fish! takes one minute to learn. In today's episode, we dive deep into that simple ruleset and emerge into a decision space larger, richer, and more interesting than we could have possibly imagined! There's nothing left to do now but to fire up the Interdecisional Spaceship and set a course for fish. Hey! those are my fish! Hey, That's My Fish! is designed by Games Discussed Chess, Kickba...
Castles of Burgundy - Crème de la Crème
June 23, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 52 MBClick on the link to join our Discord community! Episode 22 - The Castles of Burgundy 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 want to return to time and time again. We'll...
Mistakes are GOOD but sometimes they HURT (What We Talk About)
June 16, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 96.5 MBClick on the link to join our brand new Discord community! Episode 21 - Mistakes in Board Games Why did I do that? I'm such an idiot. Can I take that back?! Mistakes are all around us in the world of board games, or are they the game itself? In this episode we talk about the act, experience, and impact of mistakes in board games. This episode also features a mini-review of Dune Imperium in comparison to Ruins of Arnak! Hop into the Interdecisional Space ship and set your audio device t...
Carcassonne - A Funny Thing Keeps Happening
June 09, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 99.1 MBClick on the link to join our Discord community! Episode 20 - Carcassonne The big episode 20 is here and with it a game that is 20 years old. Wow! That works so well that you'd think we planned it, but as you are likely well aware, this isn't really that kind of show. Hop into the interdecisional spaceship and travel with us to a time long ago, the year 2000. Specifically, we'll travel to a time and place where a cutting-edge board game with a strange name has just been released. The g...
Grand Austria Hotel - Jake Gives Strategy Tips But Doesn't Know The Rules
June 02, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 119 MBClick 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 Nineteen - Grand Austria Hotel Welcome distinguished guests to this week's episode of Decision -Space. Our Interdecisional Spaceship has taken us straight into the service industry of the Viennese modern age in Grand Austria Hotel, a board game designed by Virginio Gigli, Simone Luciani with iconic illustrations by Klemens Franz. As...
BOARD GAME SIGNPOSTS! (What We Talk About)
May 26, 2021 12:13 - 1 hour - 107 MBClick on the link to join our brand new Discord community! Episode Eighteen - What the HECK are Signposts in Board Games 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 even m...
KeyForge - The MOST Skill Intensive Dueling Card Game?!
May 19, 2021 12:13 - 1 hour - 129 MBClick 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 17 - KeyForge At long last, our interdecisional spaceship has successfully navigated to the Crucible, the land of KeyForge. This is old stomping grounds for Jake and Brendan who have long -- like kind of absurdly -- histories with the game. KeyForge is designed by Richard Garfield and published by Fantasy Flight Games. In today's ...
Lost Ruins of Arnak - This Game Won Us Over
May 12, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 119 MBClick 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 Sixteen - Lost Ruins of Arnak UH OH! The Interdecisional Spaceship has crash-landed into some kind of overrun forest. Is that some generic ruins of nonspecific civilization over there?! That's right, it's another deckbuilding game, but is it just another deckbuilding game? Today on Decision Space, we explore Lost Ruins of Arnak, de...
Return of the Game Night (What We Talk About)
May 05, 2021 10:00 - 55 minutes - 79.7 MBClick 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 B...
Star Realms with Paul Salomon - But Why Four Factions?!
April 28, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 116 MBClick 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...
El Grande - Is this "Classic" Game Actually GOOD?
April 21, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 113 MBClick 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 wit...
A New Way To Talk About Games (What We Talk About)
April 14, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBDecision 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 Decis...
Welcome To... - Little Boxes
April 07, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 110 MBClick 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?) Tod...
Magic: The Gathering - A Battle of Wits?
March 31, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 122 MBJoin 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 sto...
Competitive Play (What We Talk About)
March 24, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 119 MBDecision 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 t...
Terraforming Mars - Brendan Pans It
March 17, 2021 10:00 - 59 minutes - 88 MBDecision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games and now on YouTube. Episode Eight We discuss the super, mega-hit Terraforming Mars designed by Jacob Fryxelius and published by FryxGames. It's the 4th best game of all time according to the consensus of users on Boardgamegeek.com, and yet Brendan totally pans it. Come on Brendan, get with the program! (If it wasn't apparent already, Jake writes these episode blurbs... and episode titles. Sorry, Brendan). 0:00 - In...
The Fox in the Forest - It's Like Chess and Basketball
March 10, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 97.1 MBDecision 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, Terraformi...
The Value of Games with Jamey Stegmaier (What We Talk About)
March 03, 2021 11:00 - 37 minutes - 58.6 MBDecision 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...
Underwater Cities - Let Them Eat Kelp
February 24, 2021 11:00 - 56 minutes - 83.9 MBDecision 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...
Res Arcana - Start Your Engines! (Emphasis on Start)
February 17, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 97.6 MBDecision 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...
Decision Space (What We Talk About)
February 10, 2021 11:05 - 59 minutes - 86.1 MBDecision 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...
Carpe Diem - Stefan Feld's Masochistic Pain Land
February 04, 2021 05:36 - 54 minutes - 79.7 MBDecision 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 Tok...
Kanagawa - Let's Paint Some Murals!
February 04, 2021 05:24 - 55 minutes - 84.8 MBDecision 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 Twi...