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 167 - Top 10 Games 2024 Not much to say here, folks! Hop into the Interdecisional Spaceship as Jake and...

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 - Quantum Holy geek! Decision Space has been nominated for a Golden Geek award again. Thank you all...

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 - Revisiting Games Golden Geek, Golden Geek, Golden Geek! That's right, it's pledge week here on...

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 164 - Ticket To Ride with Bill Collins This week we are joined by Bill Collins. You may know him as Varianor...

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 drafting decisions. Jake and Brendan discuss the decision space created in drafting games, focusing...

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 games. This episode is specifically on drafting as a mechanism and how this common mechanism shows...

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: Uprising, Blob Party (Jake's play of the weekend), Schadenfreude, Robot Quest Arena, and Three...

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 like a drag, and a ton about the strategic implications of various cards. We hope you take flight...

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 at the forefront of game reviews and criticism. This week, Brendan and Jake dig into this...

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 wouldn't you know it, we've been playing some games too! Pete is an up and coming game designer...

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 plays. Jake gets a little confused half way through, but Brendan is there to help way find for...

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. The result is this episode. Brendan and Jake talk for an hour about all forms of player...

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 other things we've covered, you should expect a different kind of conversation. You can trust me...

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. What types of decisions are found in these games, what does the genre do well, and maybe what...

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 rest of the crew and passengers aboard the Interdecisional Spaceship. TSpecial shoutout to Luke,...

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 game is a mess... but we kind of love it for that. Listen in to a great discussion on why that is in...

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 Interdecisional Spaceship on course for a new frontier. While long-time listeners will notice some passing...

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 annual year-end special where we look back at and rank every game from every deep dive this year....

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. Interdecisional Spaceship travellers, suit up. It's time to get out there into the paradigm...

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. Heat is a hot new board game (classic us) designed by Asger Harding Granerud, Daniel Skjold...

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 make good gifts to the people in your life (we hope) by answering prompts shared in our...

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 in and share his top 5 hidden Knizia gems. These picks come straight out of his personal...

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 listener is covering something new (2024 release!), something Old (1997), and something out of...

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 intersect. Then, Jake asks a deep question and we ponder if replayability even matters after all....