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Decision Space is a board game podcast about the decisions in games.
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Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.
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Episode 123 - Troyes
It's been like 10 episodes since the last one, but we are finally back with the original, iconic deep dive Decision Space format. This week, we cover "TROY-EZZ," "TWAHH," and probably a bunch of other pronunciations for Troyes, a board game published by Pearl Games and designed by Sébastien Dujardin, Xavier Georges, Alain Orban. Would you believe Troyes came out 13 years ago? Now that you mention it, that it explains a lot! Thanks to our patrons for selecting this game for deep dive! The Interdecisional Spaceship is away!
Pre-Planners
Troyes and Chicago Express (Wabash Canonball) are likely to be our next deep dive episodes!
Timestamps
Intro - 0:00
Ratings and Slogans - 2:11
Game Background -5:30
Rules Overview - 9:51
Deep Dive - 11:25
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/.
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!
Wednesday May 31, 2023
Wednesday May 31, 2023
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
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Episode 122 - Rondel Roundtable Feat. Findorff and Imperial 2030
Rondels baby! What could be more exciting than that? It's your favorite board gamer's favorite board game mechanism. RONDEL. Excuse me. Okay, now that that is out of my system, in this week's episode of Decision Space, we share our experience with two games featuring rondels, Findorff and Imperial 2030. After that we zoom out and chat a bit about what rondels in general! Interdecisional Spaceship, engage your spin drive, centripetal force, and all other round sounding things because rondels aren't gonna rotate pawns around themselves!
Pre-Planners
Troyes and Chicago Express (Wabash Canonball) are likely to be our next deep dive episodes!
Timestamps
Intro - 0:00
Defining Rondels - 2:30
Findorff - 5:30
Imperial 2030 - 21:58
Rondel Discussion - 37:43
Great Western Trail -38:09
Glen Moore - 39:21
Heaven and Ale -39:43
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!
Thursday May 25, 2023
Thursday May 25, 2023
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 121 - Geekway Plays and Large Player Count Games Feat. Blood on the Clocktower, Guards of Atlantis II, and Challengers!
We did it. Jake and Brendan have final met and gamed together in person, and, good news, we aren't ending the podcast. In this episode we briefly touch on all the games we played that we said we wanted to play on last weeks episode, then we pivot. In the second half, we discuss some large player count games we got to try at geekway, including Blood on the Clocktower, Guards of Atlantis II, and Challengers! We are leaving room here to talk more in depth about all the other awesome games we played at Geekway in future episodes. We'll see you there, but before them, suit up decisionaughts and let's ride!
Pre-Planners
Troyes and Chicago Express (Wabash Canonball) are likely to be our next deep dive episodes!
Timestamps
Intro - 0:00
Bamboo - 6:56
Findorff - 8:40
Challengers! - 10:39
Millenium Blades - 10:58
Blood on the Clocktower - 12:41
Samurai - 12:59
Imperial 2030 - 14:29
My City Roll & Write - 16:58
Pokemon TCG - 17:58
Monolith Arena - 18:52
Solforge Fusion - 19:56
Ra - 20:58
Babylonia - 22:04
Zoo VAdis - 24:06
Tikal - 25:07
Hansa Teutonica - 25:52
Unrest - 26:15
Blood on the Clocktower - 30:50
Guards of Atlantis II - 41:03
Challengers! - 54:13
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!
Wednesday May 17, 2023
Wednesday May 17, 2023
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 120 - Mission Plan for Geekway to the West
Brendan and Jake get hyped as they discuss the games that they most want to play this weekend at Geekway to the West. Now that the mission plan is complete, come back next week when we'll discuss the games that we actually played!
Pre-Planners
The Resistance and Social Deduction Games and Troyes
Timestamps
Intro - 0:00
Main Topic - 5:25
Pokemon Trading Card Game - 6:50
Flesh and Blood - 8:37
Solforge Fusion - 8:38
Ra - 9:49
Babylonia - 11:04
Monolith Arena - 13:11
Bamboo - 15:15
Inis - 19:35
Imperial 2030 - 19:37
Kemet - 22:01
Findorff - 23:20
Sidereal Confluence - 27:36
Challengers - 32:37
Mosaic - 35:27
Millenium Blades - 39:38
Inside Job - 42:29
Blood on the Clocktower - 43:46
Samurai - 47:14
My City Roll & Write - 48:08
Orichalcum - 49:00
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!
Wednesday May 10, 2023
Wednesday May 10, 2023
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 119 - Architects of the West Kingdom
It's the return of the deep dive. Strap into your Interdecisional Spaceship safety harnesses because we are heading for the West Kingdom. Specifically, we explore Architects of the West Kingdom by Shem Phillips and S J Macdonald on this week's episode of Decision Space. Brendan calls it the Call of Duty of board games.
Pre-Planners
The Resistance and Social Deduction Games and Troyes
Timestamps
Intro - 0:00
Ratings and Reviews and Game Background - 4:10
Rules Overview - 11:44
Deep Dive - 14:48
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!
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.
VOTE for us for a Golden Geek award here - https://boardgamegeek.com/geekawards/boardgame.
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 118 - Top 10 Games of All Time
Let's cut to the chase. Today, Brendan and I bring you our top 10 games of all time as of May 3rd, 2023. It's been about 80 episodes since we last shared our lists, so this seemed as good a time as any to update you as to who we are and how we are growing as gamers since last time around.
Pre-Planners
The Resistance and Social Deduction Games, Troyes, Architects of the West Kingdom, and Chicago Express
Timestamps
Housekeeping - 1:42
Top 10 Games of All Time - 3:42
Honorable Mentions - 5:19
Modern Art - 5:24
Barrage - 5:41
Fox in the Forest - 5:49
Blue Lagoon - 6:18
The Castles of Burgundy - 6:20
Lost Cities - 6:21
Kanagawa - 6:22
The Resistance - 8:02
So Clover - 8:09
Wavelength - 8:12
Just One - 8:14
The Mind - 8:39
Aeon's End - 8:54
Spirit Island - 8:57
Arkham Horror: LCG - 8:59
Top 10 - 10:26
The Isle of Cats - 11:33
Monolith Arena - 14:54
Barrage - 18:41
The Resistance - 23:13
Broom Service - 27:00
Cascadia - 30:20
Renature - 34:14
Keyflower - 37:47
My City - 40:59
BattleCon - 44:03
Grand Austria Hotel - 47:18
Tigris and Euphrates - 49:46
Bruge - 52:32
El Grande - 55:34
Ra - 57:09
Cosmic Encounter - 1:00:18
The Castles of Burgundy - 1:02:16
Broom Service - 1:04:25
A Feast for Odin - 1:06:07
Babylonia - 1:09:01
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!
Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.
VOTE for us for a Golden Geek award here - https://boardgamegeek.com/geekawards/boardgame.
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 117 - Overcentralizing Mechanisms and Messina 1347
First and foremost, thank you to everyone who voted for Decision Space to be nominated for a Golden Geek award. We are honored to be nominated alongside a ton of great podcasts. Good luck to everyone nominated in all categories! This weeks episode is something of an experiment. We are trying out a new deep dive format, where we provide our review and decision space exploration for Messina 1347 and reserve the second half of the episode for a related topical discussion on overcentralizing mechanisms (closely related to overcentralizing strategy and/or dominant strategy). We are trying to make sure that our deep dive episodes offer something to all of our listeners, even if you are unfamiliar and/or uninterested in Messina 1347. We'd love to hear your thoughts on how this went, and all feedback will absolutely be considered for future deep dive episodes! Now that the in-flight, safety information is taken care of, sit back and enjoy your trip on the Interdecisional Spaceship!
Pre-Planners
The Resistance and Social Deduction Games, Troyes, Architects of the West Kingdom, and Chicago Express
Timestamps
Ratings and Slogans - 0:00
Housekeeping - 3:53
Messina 1347 Background - 5:18
Rules Overview - 7:58
Messina 1347 Deep Dive - 9:51
Overcentralizing Mechanisms - 32:54
Living Forest - 39:34
Hansa Teutonica - 41:14
A Feast for Odin - 48:46
A Few Acres of Snow - 55:44
Puerto Rico - 56:10
Pre-Planners - 56:42
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!
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.
VOTE for us for a Golden Geek here - https://boardgamegeek.com/geekawards/boardgame.
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 116 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Combos
We return with another fan favorite "What We Talk About" episode, this time diving deep into the world of combos. We seek to identify types of combos found and card, board, and, well, video games too. We talk about what makes combos fun and also why they suck and conclude with examples of some of our favorite implementations of combos in board games. Hop in the Interdemensional Spaceship because you won't want to miss this one!
Pre-Planners
Messina 1347 and The Resistance coming next. We are also adding Troyes to the list. (Thanks Patrons!)
Timestamps
Intro - 0:00
Housekeeping - 2:12
Combos Discussion Start - 3:59
Ganz Schon Clever - 8:16
Rajas of the Ganges - 9:07
Trails of Tucana - 9:19
Bonfire - 9:44
Tiletum - 10:02
Innovation - 12:49
Fantasy Realms - 14:08
Magic: the Gathering - 18:08
Blood Rage - 27:08
Potion Explosion - 31:17
Bruges - 35:57
Terraforming Mars - 43:36
Ark Nova - 43:39
Glory to Rome - 47:25
KeyForge - 48:09
Trajan - 51:13
Blood Rage - 54:10
Rolling Realms - 57:35
Air Land & Sea - 1:00:32
Bonfire - 1:02:09
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!