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 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, guardians, and colorful bonfires, man. Truly, that is really all I can tell you about it. Also, it's a classic Feldian point salad euro, but it just hits different some of Feld's other, best offerings. Is that a good thing, a bad thing, or somewhere in between? We'll talk about that and more as we try to "find the path" through this episode (and fail). We do hope you'll join us in this. Let's get interdecisional! Timestamps Intro and Ratings - 0:00 Rules Overview - 15:45 Bonfire Deep Dive - 18:11   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!  

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 from Brendan, Jake, and Jamey to sink your interdecisional fangs into. Also, we'll learn that it's all about the shape of the wane, baby! Okay Decision Space travellers, let's dive in! Timestamps Topic Intro - 0:00 Honorable Mentions - 7:05 Palaces of Carrara - 15:28 Underwater Cities - 17:34 Space Base - 20:35 Calico - 24:32 Hey! That's My Fish - 27:08 T.I.M.E. Stories - 30:10 Patchwork - 34:01 Anno 1800 - 35:55 Cat in the Box - 40:35 Welcome To - 43:29 Five Tribes - 47:29 Roll Player - 50:43 Babylonia - 52:49 Codenames - 55:17 Planet Unknown - 57:05   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!  

Dive into the fascinating world of visual design in board games! Discover how aesthetics enhance player engagement and gameplay experiences. Hear analyses of games like Azul and Wingspan, highlighting the balance between visuals and strategy. Explore how the beauty of games like Shobu and Enchanted Plumes can influence player decisions. With inventive pitches for new game concepts, this discussion celebrates the artistry that brings games to life, urging aspiring designers to find inspiration in the everyday.

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 by IELLO games. As always we explore the decision of flip and write turned flip and write and place components on a board game.  Timestamps Intro, Ratings, and Game Background - 0:00 Rules Overview - 17:28 Decision Space Deep Dive - 19:59   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!  

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 Rage -- currently ranked as the 40th best board game of all time according to the users at Board Game Geek. In this episode we think a lot about the type of decision space offered by this innovative hybrid game that seeks to offer the best of both 2015 Euro and Ameritrash sensibilities, while at the same time seeking to be a game that is bigger than the box. Does it deliver on these incredible ambitions? Hop in because this space craft is departing now! Referenced Links Opinionated Gamers' Interview with Eric Lang - https://opinionatedgamers.com/2012/08/13/the-art-of-design-interviews-to-game-designers-21-eric-m-lang/ Timestamps Intro and Ratings - 0:00 Rules Overview - 14:09 Blood Rage Decision Space - 18:07   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!  

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 and Paul Salomon (Designer of Honey Buzz), with Brendan representing cult of the old and Paul representing cult of the new. The debate features listener questions across three categories, including: Current Events, The Economy, and Game Design.  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 Exciting Debate Music: Track: Back to 1981 — Iaio [Audio Library Release] Music provided by Audio Library Plus Watch: https://youtu.be/3MVRIfyWlnA Free Download / Stream: https://alplus.io/back-1981   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. Bye!  

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 that he's calling mechanical artifice. In this episode, we'll define it, discuss how it fits into our understanding of decision space, and provide game examples as a point of reference. Jake also is just kidding a lot. Content Links (Article) The Decision Space of Monopoly by Jim D’Ambrosia - https://www.decisionspacepodcast.com/articles/the-decision-space-of-the-game-monopoly-by-jim-dambrosia (Song) I Don't Wanna Know by Flash Floods - https://open.spotify.com/track/2Gm8o5PA0yohx4Z7o1OXiA?si=2bae7e2830164cc8   Timestamps Intro - 0:00 Mechanical Artifice Discussion Starts (Chess, Dice Hospital) - 5:38 Keyflower - 19:05 A Feast for Odin - 26:26 I Don't Wanna Know by Flash Floods- 37:35 Imhotep - 39:52 Codenames, Just One, and The Mind - 49:15 The Castles of Burgundy and Azul - 53:50 Cascadia - 1:02:37 Ending One - 1:05:55 Ending Two - 1:08:54 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. Bye!  

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 about Dice Hospital. Designed by Stan Kordonsky and Mike Nudd, Dice Hospital is a worker placement dice manipulation game about administering a hospital for dice. We'll dive deep, and ask incisive questions like, when is a decision space too clear and if a purely puzzly experience can still make a great game! Timestamps Intro - 0:00 Ratings - 5:32 Game Background - 8:16 Rules Overview - 11:19 Decision Space Deep Dive - 14:31 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. Bye!  

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 forward to present the game through our decision-focused lens and even bring in a little more game background than normal. Strap in, you won't want to miss this Interdecisional Spaceship ride! Timestamps Intro - 0:00 Ratings - 2:33 Game Background - 8:52 Rules Overview - 19:06 Decision Space Deep Dive - 50:07 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. Bye!  

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/weekend, so we had to record and edit this in a day to get it into your feeds on time. It's kind of a variety show where share the games we played while both hosts were out traveling and talk about ideas for a retrospective episode, playing games in teams, and the news with KeyForge. Hopefully you too have arrived safely back home after your Interdecisional Spaceship travel. Timestamps Intro - 0:00 Power Grid - 10:49 The Mind - 24:49 Celebrity/Times Up/Monkiers - 33:38 Enchanted Plumes - 38:43 Babylonia - 39:30 KeyForge - 50:07 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. Bye!