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Mail Time! (Ask Us Anything)
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 find this podcast! Episode 220 - Listener Question Mailbag A loose episode in which Jake, Brendan, and Pete answer such hard hitting questions as: "Why do you play board games?" "What designs are you working on?" "Who is the hottest member of the Fellowship?" Game Timestamps 02:20- Clockwork Wars 03:40- Fishing 05:30- It's a Wonderful World 11:10- TRICKTAKERs 12:30- Voyages of Marco Polo 14:40- BattleCON 20:36- My Favorite Things 24:28- Enchanted Plumes, Cascadia, Babylonia 25:15- The Crew, Root, El Grande 26:06- Bruges, Challengers, the Resistance 27:10- Honey Buzz, Isle of Skye, Star Realms 44:30- First Class Letters 47:15- Nimalia 48:13- Gudnak 48:44- Typeset, Signal, Here Lies 49:45- Food Chain Magnate 50:50- That's Not a Hat 51:01- Bomb Busters 51:35- Final Binary 53:20- Barrage 56:01- Root 1:06:40- Babylonia 1:07:25- Bottle Imp, Schadenfreude 1:08:50- Chicky Boom 1:09:40- Slap Jack Preplanners Unsure what's next, but Pete wants to deep dive Dominion. Play it! It's still amazing! Also, Root expansion episode will happen once Brendan gets enough plays in with those factions. 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 Intermission Music: music elevator ext part 1/3 by Jay_You -- https://freesound.org/s/467243/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Bell with Crows by MKzing -- https://freesound.org/s/474266/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 hammer v2.wav by blukotek -- https://freesound.org/s/337815/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Contact Follow and reach us on social media on Bluesky @decisionspace.bsky.social. If you prefer email, then hit us up at [email protected]. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!
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Root: the Greatest Game of All Time?
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 find this podcast! Episode 219 - Root Deep Dive (part 1) Buckle in for a long one! Pete and Brendan go DEEP on Cole Wehrle's Root. Did Brendan enjoy exploring Pete's favorite game? Is the Vagabond OP? Do the Cats suck? Is this game too hard to learn? Timestamps 3:20- reviews 12:50- game background 18:14- basic rules overview 22:00- faction overview 34:30- the cards 36:00- battles 38:30- back to the cards 42:00- core decision space 54:00- marquise de cat 1:02:00- eyrie dynasties 1:12:10- woodland alliance 1:21:05- vagabond 1:31:25- table politics 1:36:00- final thoughts 1:43:20- plans for the future Preplanners Send up questions for an AMA episode through email or by joining our discord! 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 Intermission Music: music elevator ext part 1/3 by Jay_You -- https://freesound.org/s/467243/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Bell with Crows by MKzing -- https://freesound.org/s/474266/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 hammer v2.wav by blukotek -- https://freesound.org/s/337815/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Contact Follow and reach us on social media on Bluesky @decisionspace.bsky.social. If you prefer email, then hit us up at [email protected]. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!
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Lifestyle Games (What We Talk About)
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 find this podcast! Episode 218 - Lifestyle Games What we talk about when we talk about lifestyle games. Are they worth sinking all your time and money into? Let's discuss! Timestamps 4:15 what is a lifestyle game? 30:00 what do we like about lifestyle games? 37:00 what do we dislike about lifestyle games? 52:00 can board games be lifestyle games? 1:02:00 designing lifestyle games today 1:08:00 do you miss having a lifestyle game? Preplanners Send up questions for an AMA episode through email or by joining our discord! Next week is the first of at least two episodes deep diving Pete's favorite game of all time: Root! 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 Intermission Music: music elevator ext part 1/3 by Jay_You -- https://freesound.org/s/467243/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Bell with Crows by MKzing -- https://freesound.org/s/474266/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 hammer v2.wav by blukotek -- https://freesound.org/s/337815/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Contact Follow and reach us on social media on Bluesky @decisionspace.bsky.social. If you prefer email, then hit us up at [email protected]. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!
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The Wow Factor of Games
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 find this podcast! Episode 217 - The Wow Factor What makes you stop and say "wow" when playing a game? Listen to Jake workshop his newly patented "Six Kinds of Wow"! Special guest Bill Collins! Game Timestamps 3:00 Vivo 4:10 Anachrony 6:30 Cat in the Box 10:00 Yahtzee 10:30 Just One 11:20 Cryptid 12:00 Arcs 16:40 Jenga 18:30 Calico 19:00 Tichu 23:30 The Resistance 24:30 Princes of Florence 25:00 The Thing 26:00 Hearts 27:00 Dune Imperium / Dune Imperium Uprising 30:00 High Society 30:30 Tikal 31:00 Eclipse Second Dawn for the Galaxy 32:00 A Game of Thrones the Board Game 32:45 Food Chain Magnate 35:00 Magic the Gathering 36:30 Lords of Waterdeep 38:40 Innovation 39:00 Root 39:20 Scythe 40:40 Imperium the Contention 41:30 Twilight Struggle 44:30 Wavelength / Lacuna / Hot Streak 46:00 Return to the Dark Tower 51:30 Robo Rally 53:30 Cascadia Preplanners Game design discussion on balancing for player count hosted by Paul coming up soon?! Also a double header of episodes about deckbuilding and the long awaited deep dive of Root! 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 Intermission Music: music elevator ext part 1/3 by Jay_You -- https://freesound.org/s/467243/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Bell with Crows by MKzing -- https://freesound.org/s/474266/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 hammer v2.wav by blukotek -- https://freesound.org/s/337815/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Contact Follow and reach us on social media on Bluesky @decisionspace.bsky.social. If you prefer email, then hit us up at [email protected]. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!
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Innovation and Games without Guard Rails (Look Mom, No Hands!)
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 find this podcast! Episode 216 - Innovation and Games without Guard Rails (Look Mom, No Hands!) Look mom, no hands! Brendan and Pete are diving into a discussion without guard rails (games) and then review Carl Chudyk's, Innovation. Timestamps Show Business - 0:00 Games without Guard Rails - 3:08 Innovation - 20:54 Games Mentioned lost ruins of arnak, Keyforge, Magic: the Gathering, Tigris & Euphrates, Modern Art, Root, and Innovation Preplanners Game design discussion on balancing for player count hosted by Paul coming up soon?! Also, "wow" factor in games! 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 Intermission Music: music elevator ext part 1/3 by Jay_You -- https://freesound.org/s/467243/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Bell with Crows by MKzing -- https://freesound.org/s/474266/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 hammer v2.wav by blukotek -- https://freesound.org/s/337815/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Contact Follow and reach us on social media on Bluesky @decisionspace.bsky.social. If you prefer email, then hit us up at [email protected]. This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com. Byeee!
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