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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Jacob Frydman, Brendan Hansen, Pete Wissinger, Paul Salomon

Episodes

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...

Catching Up on Jake’s Vacation, Stonemaier Design Day, and More 18.10.2023 50:08

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 141 - Catching Up We didn't prepare for this episode at all! Without time to create a full fat episode of Decision Space, Jake and Brendan hop on the mic to catch up with eachot...

Pumpkin Spice Board Games: The Decision Space Spooktacular (Can Games Be Scary and Scary Game Recommendations) 27.09.2023 1:01:21

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 140 - The Spooktacular (Can Games Be Scary and Game Recommendations To Play this Spooky Season) Pumpkin spice is in the air, and we are in the mood for some spooky times with our...

Torres - Year of the Kramer and Kiesling 20.09.2023 59:56

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 139 - Torres So we may be a little obsessed with Kramer and Kiesling games, but we felt compelled to share our thoughts on Torres -- a spiel winner and honorary 4th game in "the m...

Balance, Pt. 2 (What We Talk About) 13.09.2023 59:07

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 138 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Balance, Part Two ...And we're back with part two of the balance what we talk about episode. This time we dive into questions of percei...

Balance, Pt. 1 (What We Talk About) 06.09.2023 51:30

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 137 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Balance, Part One There are no rules on the Interdecisional Spaceship. We break from tradition and declare that "What We Talk About" ep...

TOP 10 - Games We Are Enjoying in 2023 (So Far) 30.08.2023 1:06:32

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 136 - Top 10 Games We Are Enjoying in 2023 In this week's episode we count down the TOP 10 board games we are enjoying, so far, in 2023. This is distinctly not a discussion of ga...

Playtesting and Prototyping - This Is the Podcast About the Designing of Games 😉 23.08.2023 55:55

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 135 - Playtesting and Prototyping Welcome to Decision Space, the only podcast that takes place right here before the turns of your favorite games (someday, we hope). Anyways, this...

Ark Nova - A Rondel by Any Other Name 16.08.2023 1:04:54

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 134 - Ark Nova Ark Nova anyone? Maybe you've heard of it? This week, the Interdecisional Spaceships embarks on a journey to explore the decisions in the highest rated game that we...

LTF Con Recap (Nine Game Plays and One Designer Who Changed Everything) 09.08.2023 1:07:00

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 133 - LTF Con Recap Last weekend the infamous Laughing Table Friends -- Charlie, Jake, Jared, Luke, and Tyler -- got together for the first ever LTF Con. The 5 person con took pla...

Games that Play Fast (What We Talk About) 02.08.2023 1:12:43

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 132 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Games That Play Fast Good luck keeping up with the conversation in this week's throwback WWTA episode, because things move fast. If you...

Pushing Your Luck Feat. Spots and Can’t Stop 26.07.2023 1:04:08

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 131 - Pushing Your Luck Feat. Spots and Can't Stop Today we consider the push your luck mechanic in board games, highlighting Can't Stop and Spots for short reviews. In the second...

Recent Plays at Gamers Ranch (Mini reviews of Heat, The Search for Lost Species, and More.) 19.07.2023 1:19:33

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 130 - Recent Plays at Gamers Ranch This week's impromptu episode features Jake regaling Brendan with stories of his recent plays at Gamers Ranch -- Heat, The Search for Lost Specie...

Challengers! - Auto Battlers, the Next Big Thing in Board Games? 12.07.2023 1:16:50

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 129 - Challengers! Donald X. Vaccarino's Dominion famously popularized the deck building mechanic, forever changing the landscape of board gaming. Is it possible that a silly littl...

We Can Only Keep 10 Games! 05.07.2023 1:01:51

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 128 - If We Can Only Keep 10 Games Thought Experiment ERROR! ERROR! Something has gone horribly wrong in the Interdecisional Spaceship. The only way to correct course is to dump ca...