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), 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, and we discuss them in this week's episode. The games covered range from huge releases to small indie games, classic games to niche offerings, and living legends to first time designers. We hope you join us abord the Interdecisional Spaceship for this great conversation.   Pre-Planners Messina 1347 and The Resistance coming soon! Timestamps Housekeeping - 0:00 District Noir - 4:04 SolForge Fusion - 10:23 Startups - 26:46 Bullet ♥ - 36:05 Through the Desert - 47:47 Ark Nova - 59:32 Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!  

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 space, designed by Simone Luciani and Tommaso Battista. Fortunately, we won't have to go it alone. In this episode, we are joined by good friend Aurore Inara, who shares her insights to help see us through. Let's get this flight underway!  You can find more from Aurore on her competitive keyforge blog at https://timeshapers.com/. Aurore has also contributed a 7 Wonders Architects review and a Can't Stop Decision Guide to decisionspacepodcast.com. Pre-Planners Messina 1347 and The Resistance coming soon! Timestamps Housekeeping - 0:00 Ratings & Reviews - 2:55 Rules Overview - 9:08 Barrage Deep Dive - 13:05 Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!  

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 time the pilots of our Interdecisional Spaceship discuss asymmetry. We talk about what games with asymmetry and what what separates these from "asymmetric games." At the end we talk about why asymmetry is good and bad in the games we love to play. We also perhaps discuss the most games ever in the single games. Just look at those timestamps!  Pre-Planners Barrage will be our next deep dive review. Messina 1347 and The Resistance coming soon! Timestamps Housekeeping - 0:00 Asymmetry Discussion - 6:25 Chess - 8:15 Tigris & Euphrates - 10:54 7 Wonders - 11:30 Root - 13:05 Memoir '44 - 15:20 Jekyll vs. Hyde - 15:43 Cosmic Encounter - 18:19 Barrage - 21:05 Agricola - 23:54 Codenames - 27:13 Team 3 - 28:50 The Resistance - 29:31 Pandemic - 31:29 Spirit Island - 33:06 Fury of Dracula - 35:54 Vast: The Crystal Caverns - 44:42 Skulk Hollow - 45:13 Raptor - 45:41 BattleCON - 46:07 Net Runner - 49:09 Magic: The Gathering - 49:30 Space Cadets - 51:21 Fugitive - 51:36 Letters from White Chapel - 51:49 Mr. Jack - 52:16 Keyforge - 1:02:40 The Castles of Burgundy - 1:05:42 Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!  

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 topic of campaign games and all the ways they are great and all the ways they are not. We discuss the campaign games we've played to date and how much of them we have actually finished. In the second part of the episode, we dive into a design case study for Brendan's game signed with Pandasaurus under the working title "End the Empire." Therein, Brendan discusses how he has tackled the exciting opportunity of extending his game with a campaign module. Jake take's the opportunity to pick at Brendan's choices, and tell him how he could or should have chosen differently. Brendan calls Jake an imperialist tyrant, so things are pretty much going normal over here. Why don't you hop into our Interdecisional Spaceship and come along for the ride. Pre-Planners Barrage will be our next deep dive review. Messina 1347 and The Resistance coming soon! Timestamps Housekeeping - 0:00 Part 1 on Campaign Games - 1:44 My City - 2:15 Pandemic Legacy Season 1 - 3:20 Arkham Horror: the Living Card Game - 5:17 Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion - 6:27 My City (again) - 6:40 The Crew Deep Sea - 9:43 Isle of Cats - 21:06 Dungeons and Dragons - 24:42 Dead Cells - 27:55 TIME Stories - 30:58 Part 2 End the Empire Case Study - 35:51 Terraforming - Mars 38:02 Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!  

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 Coloretto, but that's not all. We also touch on Coloretto's sequal Zooloretto as well! In this episode Jake misspeaks in the worst way, Brendan laughs at Jake, and we have a jolly good time discussing an amazing example of less is more gameplay. Pre-Planners Barrage will be our next deep dive review. Messina 1347 and The Resistance coming soon! Timestamps Housekeeping - 0:00 Ratings and Slogans - 4:14 Rules Overview - 9:44 Coloretto Deep Dive - 12:11 Zooloretto - 48:29 Final Thoughts -57:57 Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!  

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. In this what we talk about episode, we begin with a definition of elegance and then struggle to apply that definition to board games. Brendan thinks it is about being ingenious. Jake thinks it is about style. However, both of our intrepid hosts can agree on some overall trends that tend to make a game more likely to be elegant than not. As we think through and discuss this topic, we also discuss a whole bunch of games. Hope you are up for a bumpy one because the Interdecisional Spaceship is now sailing, elegantly, through space.  Pre-Planners Coloretto and Zooloretto coming next week, Barrage coming soon! Timestamps Intro - 0:00 Pandemic - 10:41 San Francisco - 14:47 Root - 25:31 Lost Ruins of Arnak - 26:06 Living Forest - 27:06 Castles of Burgundy - 29:09 Castles of Tuscany - 30:52 Cosmic Frog - 34:38 Azul - 36:51 The Fox in the Forest - 39:46 Lost Cities - 43:05 Patchwork - 46:12 Tigris & Euphrates - 48:49 Dominion - 52:35 Jenga - 53:41 El Grande - 55:47 Tiletum - 57:02 Cascadia - 58:28 Carpe Diem - 1:00:23 Bonfire - 1:01:23 In the Year of the Dragon - 1:02:23 Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!  

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 Space is in your feed thanks to our incredibly generous patreon supporters. In this episode, we discuss a topic selected by our patrons: the worst parts of our favorite games and the best parts about our least favorite games. It's a fun topic and then Brendan gets himself in trouble at the very end, ruining everything! Hop into our Interdecisional Spaceship for the second time this week and let's get lost. Pre-Planners Coloretto and Zooloretto coming next week, Barrage coming soon! Timestamps Castles of Burgundy - 4:27 Cosmic Encounter - 10:16 Bruges - 14:45 Monolith Arena - 20:01 Broom Service - 26:02 Babylonia - 31:55 Splendor - 36:28 Res Arcana - 38:38 Catacombs - 46:05 Root - 50:38 Terraforming Mars - 54:07 Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!  

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 plays at the Geekway Mini convention. There were plenty of high highs and low lows among the games covered, but perhaps most exciting of all were the 5, count 'em, 5! Reiner Knizia games played. Big shout out to Jared, Tyler, Joe, and Bridget for being involved in many of the games and stories recounted on todays episode. This Interdecisional Space is taking off. Next stop, Geekway to the West. See y'all there! Pre-Planners Coloretto and Zooloretto coming next week, Barrage coming soon! Timestamps Intro - 0:00 Planet Unknown - 5:01 Dead Reckoning - 11:39 Messina 1347 - 16:55 San Francisco - 25:03 Mille Fiori - 30:54 High Society - 36:18 Art Robbery - 41:51 Hit! - 45:12 Renature - 47:41 Tiletum - 48:04 Scout - 42:45 Cosmic Frog - 57:40 Trajan - 1:03:15 Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!  

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) and third Kiesling design (Azul and Palaces of Carara) we've covered on the show. These guys are fast become Decision Space favorites. Will that trend continue with Renature, or will be let down for the first time. Hop into the Interdecisional Spaceship and let's find out! You can find a direct link to all the episodes mentioned in this podcast at decisionspacepodcast.com/decisionspace101. Pre-Planners Coloretto and Zooloretto coming in two weeks. Next week we recap Jake's experience at Geekway Mini convention and cover 13 games! Timestamps Intro - 0:00 Rules Overview - 13:28 Renature Deep Dive - 17:25 Music and Sound Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI "Ba Dum Tish Comedy Punchline Drums" sound effect from djlprojects. Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!  

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 right this is Decision Space 101, the best starting point to on board yourself to Decision Space: The Podcast About Decisions in Games. In this Episode, we will break down what exactly it is that we do here, what we are hoping to achieve, and share our top 10 touchstone episodes for continued exploration. Welcome and we hope you enjoy your flight! You can find a direct link to all the episodes mentioned in this podcast at decisionspacepodcast.com/decisionspace101. Pre-Planners Next week we will be covering Renature by Kramer and Kiesling. Coloretto will be following shortly thereafter. Timestamps Intro - 0:00 Honorable Mentions - 16:21 Top 10 Touchstone Episodes - 26:43 Music Credits Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.  Rules Overview Music:  Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI Contact We can be reached individually on Twitter at @jakefryd and @burnsidebh. You can also follow Decision Space on Twitter @DecisionSpa and talk to us there! If you prefer email, then hit us up at decisionspa@gmail.com. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!