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

TOP 10 - Games We Are Enjoying in 2022 (So Far) 20.07.2022 1:22:03

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...

Mechanics that MAKE the Game with Special Guest Gnarly Carley 13.07.2022 1:02:24

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...

Space Base - Augmenting Randomness in Space 06.07.2022 59:07

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...

Depth and Size in Board Games (What We Talk About) 29.06.2022 1:17:40

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...

Lost Cities - Reiner Knizia Master of Theme 23.06.2022 1:02:22

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,...

Riftforce - What’s This Lifestyle Dueling Card Game Doing In My Euro Filler? 15.06.2022 1:10:09

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 ,...

Board Game Design Process (What We Talk About) 08.06.2022 1:04:49

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...

Bärenpark - PWH Fan Club Meeting with Special Guest Paul Salomon 01.06.2022 1:08:44

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...

Ganz Schön Clever (That’s Pretty Clever) - Wolfgang’s World 25.05.2022 1:05:24

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...

Reviewing FOURTEEN Games - Geekway Convention Recap 18.05.2022 1:26:36

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) 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...

Games Are Agency As Art - A New Way To Talk about Games With C. Thi Nguyen 11.05.2022 1:11:53

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...

Downforce - We Have Concerns 04.05.2022 1:01:46

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 66 - Downforce Buckle your safety belts because this one gets a little bit bumpy. This week we cover Downforce , a Restoration Games remake of Wolfgang Kramer's original design with design work by Kramer, Rob D...

Sushi Go! with Azul Queen’s Garden on My Mind 27.04.2022 1:06:43

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) Episode 65 - Sushi Go! Sushi Go! by Phil Walker-Harding is our feature game in this week's episode. As card-carrying members of the PWH fan club, we're excited to sink our teeth into this super-light game. We'll explor...

Audience Q&A - What Is the Best Board Game To Eat? 20.04.2022 1:05:35

Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games! Call to Action Please nominate Decision Space for a Golden Geek award! Episode 64 - Audience Q&A You asked, and in this episode, we answer. We take on tons of great questions submitted by our audience (thank you so much to everyone who submitted a question) that range from seriously thought-provoking to seriously silly. More than ev...

Tigris and Euphrates, Pt.2 13.04.2022 1:07:33

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 63 - Tigris and Euphrates Part Two Interdecisional Spaceship recalibrating. Charting return course to Tigris and Euphrates. Read Message: "Please join us for the exciting conclusion of our two-part series on th...

Tigris and Euphrates, Pt. 1 07.04.2022 1:15:31

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 62 - Tigris and Euphrates Part One This is a bit of a doozy. In the first part of the first two-part episode ever, Brendan and Jake spar about the merits of Tigris and Euphrates. Is this a great game? Would you...

Great Western Trail - A Straight Shootin’ Strategy Game 30.03.2022 1:07:14

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 61 - Great Western Trail Howdy! Today, we cover a game that, fittingly, Brendan and I have both had our own long and winding journeys with. And wouldn't you know it, it appears we hit a fork in the road and end...

Playing 30 Games at Once! What We’ve Learned from Digital Play (What We Talk About) 23.03.2022 1:00:59

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 60 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Digital Play This episode is all about the way we play board games digitally and what we've learned from the experience. Our show would not be what is without the lear...

A Feast for Odin - The Feast Is a LIE 16.03.2022 1:06:22

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 59 - A Feast for Odin An extravagant menu, satisfying options, and playing out over 7 courses, A Feast for Odin by Uwe Rosenberg delivers on the promise of a decadent gaming experience and then some. In this we...

A New Way To Talk About Objectives in Games (What We Talk About) 09.03.2022 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 58 - What We Talk About When We Talk About A New Way To Talk About Objectives In Games Holy S***! It's a new way to talk about type episode after long last. In this one, Brendan presents his new framework for d...

Broom Service - Knowing the COWARDLY Mind of the Opponent 02.03.2022 1:13:01

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 57 - Broom Service Imagine if to fold in poker you had to say, "I'm a cowardly hill witch." Well, that is basically Broom Service in a nutshell, and I don't need to say more than that to tell you that Broom Ser...

Our Board Game Biases (What We Talk About) 23.02.2022 1:05:54

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) Episode 56 - Our Board Game Biases and Affinities Today's show topic is arguably the first one we should have ever done. In this What We Talk About episode, we dive into our board gaming biases and affinities. It is ou...

Cartographers - You Draw a Map! 16.02.2022 1:05:06

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 55 - Cartographers In this week's episode of Decision Space, we chart a course (heh) for the flip-n-write game Cartographers , designed by Jordy Aidan and published by Thunderworks Games, where players get to,...

Cascadia - The Cascadia Kid with Special Guest Maya Polan 09.02.2022 1:09:36

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) Episode 54 - Cascadia Sorry to all previous guests on Decision Space, but it must be said that on today's episode of Decision Space we welcome our most special guest to date. For our deep-dive discussion of the decisio...

Tempo in Board Games and What It Isn’t (What We Talk About) 01.02.2022 1:00:47

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 53 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Tempo in Board Games and What It Isn't This game has a great tempo! That move just gained you so much tempo! I have tempo in this situation! All of these phrases can s...