Jacob Frydman, Brendan Hansen, Pete Wissinger, Paul Salomon

Decision Space

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Decision Space explores decisions in games across the board game hobby and beyond. By exploring tactics, strategy, and the subjective experiences of decisions in games, we hope to provide insights into the specific games we cover and the games in general.

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Author

Jacob Frydman, Brendan Hansen, Pete Wissinger, Paul Salomon

Episodes

Quantum - The Dice Are Nice 24.04.2024 1:01:34

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Vote for Decision Space to win the Golden Geek HERE: https://boardgamegeek.com/geekawards/boardgame (If you have any questions or difficulty, please reach out in the discord!) 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 166 -...

Revisitability vs. Replayability and Revisting Games 17.04.2024 59:09

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. Nominate Decision Space for a Golden Geek Here: https://boardgamegeek.com/geekawards/boardgame (If you have any questions or difficulty, please reach out in the discord!) Join our active and welcoming Discord community, Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 165 - Rev...

Ticket To Ride - A Classic for All Ages with Special Guest Bill Collins 10.04.2024 1:07:36

Play & Design Decisions in Drafting Games (What We Talk About) 03.04.2024 1:04:16

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 found this podcast! Episode 163 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Drafting, Part Two In the second part of our What We Talk About episode on drafting, we move away from drafting mechanisms and into draf...

All the Things We Call Drafting (What We Talk About) 27.03.2024 1:04:26

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 found this podcast! Episode 162 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Drafting, Part One Brendan is back in the saddle, and we settle down to part one in a two (or more) part series on drafting in board gam...

Gamers Ranch Recent Plays and Pete's Back! 21.03.2024 51:16

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 found this podcast! Episode 161 - Pete's Back! Gamers Ranch Recent Plays Pete Wissinger is back, and he and Jake are talking about recent plays at a magical trip to Gamers Ranch. We talk about Dune Imperium:...

Bunny Kingdom - Drafting with Strategy and Flavor 14.03.2024 1:04:33

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 found this podcast! Episode 160 - Bunny Kingdom This week we discuss Bunny Kingdom! We talk about the benefits of the visual representation of the deck via the board grid, the fact that scoring kind of seems...

Scoring Logistics (What We Talk About) 06.03.2024 1:07:02

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 found this podcast! Episode 159 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Scoring Logistics Scoring logistics, the way the game facilitates scoring sometimes feels like an afterthought. At least, it isn't often...

What We're Playing with Pete Wissinger 21.02.2024 1:15:33

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 found this podcast! Episode 158 - What We're Playing with Pete Wissinger Pete Wissinger stops by the interdecisional spaceship to talk with Jake and Brendan about some games that he's been playing lately, and...

Learning Plays (What We Talk About) 14.02.2024 1:06:56

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 found this podcast! Episode 157 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Learning Plays Holy animal meeple, it's back to back what we talk about episodes. This time Jake and Brendan talk all about learning pla...

Player Interaction (What We Talk About) 08.02.2024 1:06:24

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 found this podcast! Episode 156 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Player Interaction Jake has a lot on his mind after some recent turbulence at his weekly game night. The culprit? Player interaction. Th...

The Resistance - You Should Play this Game 31.01.2024 1:05:00

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 found this podcast! Episode 155 - The Resistance At long last, we are deep diving the resistance the first and only social deduction game we've covered on this podcast. Because the game is so different from o...

Roll and Write Games 24.01.2024 56:19

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 found this podcast! Episode 154 - Roll and Write Trying something new here. This week we explore not, not two, but all of the roll and write games. That's right, we're taking on the whole roll and write genre...

Jake Played 19 Games at Geekway Mini (Mini Reviews) 17.01.2024 1:27:30

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 found this podcast! Episode 153 - Jake Played 19 Games at Geekway Mini I played 19 games this weekend at Geekway Mini and I'm still tired, BUT I couldn't be more excited to share my amazing weekend with the r...

Planet Unknown - More Is More? 10.01.2024 1:02:35

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 found this podcast! Episode 152 - Planet Unknown The Interdecisional Spaceship blasts off for the first deep dive of 2024. This week we cover Planet Unknown, designed by Ryan Lambert , Adam Rehberg . This ga...

The Future of Decision Space 03.01.2024 1:08:23

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 found this podcast! Episode 151 - The Future of Decision Space The future is now. We've conquered the first 150 episodes (I still can't believe that number) of Decision Space, and so we set our Interdecisiona...

We Rank Every Game - 2023 Year End Special (Episode 150!!!) 20.12.2023 1:28:44

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 found this podcast! Episode 150 - We Rank Every Game Year End Special (Episode 150!!!) This is the 150th episode of Decision Space. I really can hardly believe it, and how fitting it is that it lands on the a...

Nine Paradigm Shifting Games! 13.12.2023 57:52

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 found this podcast! Episode 149 - Paradigm Shifting Games Jake and Brendan share nine games that shifted the way we think about games. Oops! Jake even included a video game. Stupid Jake, bad! Ahem. Interdecis...

Heat: Pedal to the Metal - But, Is It a Board Game? 06.12.2023 1:04:29

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 found this podcast! Episode 148 - Heat Deep Dive This week we are doing a classic, patented Decision Space Deep Dive (where we say our ratings at the beginning of the episode) on Heat: Pedal to the Metal. Hea...

2023 Holiday Board Game Gift Guide 29.11.2023 1:08:47

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 found this podcast! Episode 147 - 2023 Holiday Board Game Gift Guide This week Decision Space veers towards consumerism at the seasonally appropriate time. We bring you our best insights on what games will ma...

Top 5 Knizia Hidden Gems with Jared Ingersoll 22.11.2023 1:01:08

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 found this podcast! Episode 146 - Five Knizia Hidden Gems with Jared Ingersoll Oops, Jake forgot his microphone! No worries though, Jared Ingersoll President of the Reiner Knizia Fan Club was willing to jump...

Something Old, Something New, & Something Never Getting Reprinted (7 Mini-Reviews) 15.11.2023 1:03:53

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 found this podcast! Episode 145 - Something Old, Something New, & Something Never Getting Reprinted This week, Jake and Brendan talk about some recent plays in a mini-review format. Our gift to you, dear...

Replayability and Why It Doesn’t Matter (What We Talk About) 08.11.2023 1:14:28

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 found this podcast! Episode 144 - Replayability It's a classic what we talk about episode on replayability! (And there was much rejoicing.) We discuss 6 factors that make a game replayability and how they...

Santa Monica - Dreams of Variabilityication 01.11.2023 52:27

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 found this podcast! Episode 143 - Santa Monica This week, the Interdecisional Spaceship takes a much-needed detour to the beach. That's right, we are catching some waves in sunny Santa Monica. In the episo...

What Do Our Most Played Games Tell Us About Replayability? (Top 5 Most Played Digital and Physical Games Lists!) 25.10.2023 1:03:56

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 found this podcast! Episode 142 - Our Most Played Physical and Digital Games Brendan and Jake share their top 5 most played games digitally and physically and think about what these lists mean through a le...