Decision Space

Click 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...

Click 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 BG...

Click 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. Onc...

Click 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 Interdeci...

Click 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...

Click 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...

Click 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 com...

Click 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 tim...

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 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...

Click 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 foot...

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 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 gam...

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 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...

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...

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 Da...

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 buzzin...

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'l...

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...

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 u...

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 engag...

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 Yo...

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...

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 bet...

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 Ahea...

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...

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 foll...