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

Combos (What We Talk About) 19.04.2023 1:09:13

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games. VOTE for us for a Golden Geek here - https://boardgamegeek.com/geekawards/boardgame . Click on the link to 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 116 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Combos We return with another...

Talking Blocking Feat. Hansa Teutonica, Zoo Vadis, and Go 12.04.2023 1:03:36

Decision 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), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 115 - Talking Blocking Featuring Recent Plays of Hansa Teutonica, Zoo Vadis, and Go Before we go any further, vote for us for a Golden Geek here - https://boar...

My City Pt. 2 - The Legacy Game 05.04.2023 1:06:13

Decision 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), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 114 - My City Part Two, the Legacy Game (Full Spoilers) We are jumping right back into My City's decision Space, but this time we are looking at the legacy gam...

My City, Pt. 1 - The Eternal Game 29.03.2023 1:06:48

Decision 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), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 113 - My City Part One, The Eternal Game It's back to back (to back) Reiner Knizia deep dive episodes on Decision Space! In this week's voyage, we take on My C...

Babylonia - Brendan and Maya Take the Case! 22.03.2023 1:12:12

Decision 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), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 112 - Babylonia Surprise! Today, for a Decision Space first Brendan and Maya co-pilot the Interdecisional Spaceship alone, as they dive deep into the Decision...

Design Problems? Yo, These Games Solved ’Em! 15.03.2023 1:11:54

Decision 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), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 111 - Elegant Solutions to Design Problems In this raucus episode, Brendan and Jake discuss design problems and the games that elegantly solve them. Join us on...

Six Recent Plays - Ark Nova, Through the Desert, SolForge Fusion, Bullet ♥, Startups, and District Noir 08.03.2023 1:10:32

Decision 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), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 110 - Six Recent Plays of Ark Nova, Through the Desert, SolForge Fusion, Bullet ♥, Startups, and District Noir Brendan and I recently played six board games, a...

Barrage - The Crew Gets Heavy with Special Guest Aurore Inara 02.03.2023 1:15:43

Decision 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), or Leave us a review wherever you found this podcast! Episode 109 - Barrage It's time to take this Interdecisional Spaceship for another deep dive. This time we are heading into the murky depths of Barrage 's decision spa...

Asymmetry (What We Talk About) 23.02.2023 1:13:13

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to 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 108 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Asymmetry in Games We are back with yet another "What We Talk About" episode! This tim...

Campaign Games, Legacy Games, and a Game Design Case Study 15.02.2023 1:02:09

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to 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 107 - Campaign Games, Legacy Games, and Game Design Case Study In this episode, our intrepid co-pilot hosts first dive into the to...

Coloretto (and a Little Bit Zooloretto) - The One Where Jake Says Something Really Stupid 08.02.2023 1:03:12

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to 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 106 - Coloretto and a Little Bit Zooloretto We're back with an episode deep dive at long last last! Today, we're covering Colorett...

Elegance (What We Talk About) 01.02.2023 1:06:51

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to 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 105 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Elegance We promised an inelegant conversation and oh boy do we ever deliver on that....

BONUS EPISODE - Things We Hate About Our Favorite Games 27.01.2023 1:00:36

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to 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 104 - Things We Hate About Games We Love and Things We Love About Games We Hate What's this?! A full bonus episode of Decision Spa...

Thirteen Recent Plays at Geekway Mini (Five Knizia Reviews Inside!) 25.01.2023 1:14:36

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to 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 103 - Thirteen Recent Plays at Geekway Mini An atypical episode of Decision Space, this week focuses on Jake's thirteen recent pla...

Renature - This Game Is a Unit 18.01.2023 1:07:32

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to 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 102 - Renature Renature , jointly designed by Kramer and Kiesling, is the third Kramer design (El Grande and Palaces of Carrara) a...

Decision Space 101 - Start Here (Top 10 Touchstone Episodes) 11.01.2023 59:38

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to 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 101 - Decision Space 101 Welcome Interdecisional Space Travelers from this world and beyond, you are in the right space. That's ri...

Episode 100! The Next 100 Episodes and Games Played Over Break 04.01.2023 1:09:39

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to 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 100 - Episode 100 We made it to 100 episodes of Decision Space. There isn't much else to do but give a heartfelt thank you to ever...

In the Year of the Dragon - Most PUNISHING Game Ever? 21.12.2022 1:05:51

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to 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 99 - In the Year of the Dragon From the designer who brought you the masochistic pain land of Carpe Diem, we ask, is In the Year o...

We Rank EVERY Game - 2022 End of Year Special 21.12.2022 1:40:24

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to 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 98 - We Rank EVERY Game 2022 Year End Special We have finally made it to the end of the year special in which we rank every game f...

BattleCON - Do Video Game Fighters Work Without a Screen? 07.12.2022 1:12:52

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to 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 97 - BattleCON We have been interested in covering BattleCON since day one of this show, and it only took us 96 episodes to get to...

Games as Gifts and $100 Budget Collections 30.11.2022 1:04:20

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to 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 96 - Games as Gifts and $100 Collections In this two part episode, we first discuss the benefits, risks, and what to think about w...

Memoir ’44 - Boy Meets War Game 23.11.2022 1:05:53

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to 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 95 - Memoir '44 This is an episode of firsts. We cover our first war game, our first didactic game, and our first ameritrash game...

Rajas of the Ganges - A Log Rolling Good Time 16.11.2022 1:10:44

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community ! Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon) Episode 94 - Rajas of the Ganges This week we deep dive a worker placement, tile placement, dice manipulation euro game with, and I can't stress this enough, a river that you can move forwa...

Board Game Podcasters Review MARVEL SNAP 09.11.2022 1:11:51

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games and, apparently, video games! Click on the link to join our active and welcoming Discord community ! Join the crew today! (Decision Space Patreon) Episode 93 - MARVEL SNAP You are reading that right. There is not an error on your phone, computer, tablet, etc. We've done board games, we've done sports, and now, for the first time, Deci...

Developing Decisions in Games, The Wolves, and a Special Announcement with Alex Cutler 02.11.2022 1:09:00

Decision 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 92 - Developing Decisions in Games with Special Guest Alex Cutler We are joined by Alex Cutler, the the lead board game developer at Pandasaurus, to talk about what it is a developer does. Alex brings his wealt...