Decision Space

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 91 - Point Salad Hope you are hungry, but not that hungry because it is salad week on Decision Space. Point Salad that is -- designed by Molly Johnson ,  Robert Melvin ,  Shawn Stankewich and published by AEG....

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 90 - Bonfire We get to talk about another Stefan Feld game, and I just have to say it feels so good. This time we talk about the 2020 hit (I'd call it a hit), Bonfire. It's a psychedelic game about gnomes, guar...

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 89 - Top 15 Waning Decision Space Games with Jamey Stegmaier Today special guest Jamey Stegmaier is back on the pod, and we count down the top 15 games with a waning decision space. That means you get 5 games f...

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 88 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Visual Design This week we are back with another in our series of what we talk about episodes focused on game design. In this episode, we touch on a topic we don't oft...

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 87 - Get on Board: New York & London This week in lighter fare, the Interdecisional Spaceship veers towards London & New York in the aptly named Get on Board: London & New York , designed by Sashi and published...

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 86 - Blood Rage For the first time and at long last, we steer our Interdecisional Spaceship towards the Eric Lang galaxy. Our first stop in this sector of the known decisioverse is with the 2015 smash hit Blood...

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 85 - First Decision Space Debate: Cult of the New VS Cult of the Old (Brendan Hansen VS. Paul Salomon) At long last the first decisional debate night has arrived. Today features a debate between Brendan Hansen...

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 84 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Mechanical Artifice This week we get old school with a throwback What We Talk About style episode. This time our co-pilots are talking through Brendan's new concept th...

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 83 - Dice Hospital This week, we make significant use of the Interdecisional Spaceships infirmary. Not only is Brendan recovering from an illness and more than a little raspy on the record, but we are recording...

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 82 - Agricola The day has finally arrived when our intrepid decisionaughts take on one of the titans of the industry, Uwe Rosenberg's Agricola ! Though intimidation is a small factor, your co-pilots press forwa...

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 81 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Power Grid, Playing Games in Teams, and Other Odds & Ends Not going to lie, this episode is a bit of an odd duck. Brendan and I were both out traveling this past week/...

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 80 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Vacation Games You are likely in your car, train, or plane and on your way to your long-awaited vacation right now! That's why we decided to record this episode just f...

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 79 - The Isle of Cats If you are reading this then you have been lured into our basket by the wafting smell of fresh fish. Ha! Never fear, we are transporting you to safety in our Interdecisional Spaceship. Whi...

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 78 - Living Forest Interdecisional Spaceship passengers, it is the moment you have been waiting for. A moment many thought, us included, would never come. Though it may go against our morals, religion, and etho...

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 77 - Top 10 Games We Are Enjoying in 2022 (So Far) Interdecisional Spaceship passengers, there has been a sudden change of course. Today we are back with another discussion topic episode, rather than the aforem...

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 76 - Mechanics that Make the Game with Special Guest Gnarly Carley This week we are joined on the Interdecisional Spaceship bridge by a special guest, co-pilot Gnarly Carley. In the episode, we each highlight f...

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 75 - Space Base New microphone who dis? That's right, you are hearing new crispy clean audio thanks to our crew at Patreon. Jake has finally updated from a usb microphone to a full-on podmic and audio interface...

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 74 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Depth and Size in Board Game Decision Space This week on Decision Space we break out a fan-favorite format and go deep into the concepts of decision space size and dep...

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 73 - Lost Cities It's Reiner Knizia day on the Decision Space Podcast! This time we are deep diving and exploring the decisions in Lost Cities . Like last week's feature game, Riftforce , this is a lane-based,...

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 72 - Riftforce Dust off your rift rocks (as they say) because today we are covering Riftforce. It isn't every day that we cover a new game on Decision Space, but Riftforce (2021) , designed by Carlo Bortolini ,...

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 71 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Board Game Design Process This week is a throwback "what we talk about" format, where Jake and Brendan chat about board game design process. We share our personal desi...

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 70 - Bärenpark We welcome you to the first Phil Walker-Harding fan club meeting of 2022. Jake and Brendan are joined by PWH Fan Club president, Paul Salomon (designer of Honey Buzz), giving us a quorum. Today's...

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 69 - Ganz Schön Clever (That's Pretty Clever) This week we deep dive Ganz Schön Clever / That's Pretty Clever / Ganz Schön Whatever by the inspirational designer Wolfgang Warsch. Say what you will about the sat...

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 68 - Geekway Convention Recap Jake attended a board game convention for the first time in three years. In this episode, you'll hear Jake recount his experiences with the 14 games he played last weekend, while B...

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 67 - Games are Agency as Art with C. Thi Nguyen We are joined by philosopher and author C. Thi Nguyen to discuss the ideas in his incredible book Games: Agency as Art . We touch on the value of games as an arti...