@decisionspace.bsky.social
A board game podcast by Jake Frydman and Brendan Hansen for players and designers alike. 2x Golden Geek Nominee. 2023 Cardboard Edison winner for best game design podcast. decisionspacepodcast.com
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04.12.2025 15:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Are you familiar with the term "donkey space" in game theory? "I know that you know that I know..." etc. In the most recent @decisionspace.bsky.social we discuss the concept as well as two games that have elements of these mind games: Agent Avenue and Hanamikoji.
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New episode of @decisionspace.bsky.social is all about different types of auctions in games! What are some of your favorite auction games? Mine is Modern Art!
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Loved recording this episode with you @petewiss.bsky.social. We had fun talking deck shufflers, for sure!
12.11.2025 15:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Love this meme from donotadjust in our discord about last week’s Tile Laying Tropes episode and @devirgames.bsky.social’s Paris: La Cité de la Lumière (2019).
12.11.2025 13:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hope our Apiary episode was fun to listen to, if you listened. If not, respect the healthy boundaries 🫡
29.10.2025 15:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Decision Space has merch now! What?! Hats, Ts, and Sweaters.
My son rates our hats 1/10, but I like them a lot.
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My top Spiel moments:
- Meeting @semicoop.bsky.social and demo'ing L'Oaf for them
- Getting interviewed by @thehungrymeeple.bsky.social for their excellent podcast about food and games
- Chatting with @petewiss.bsky.social about games, losing our voices, and the @decisionspace.bsky.social podcast
Talking about the @stonemaiergames.com Design Day has become one of my favorite episodes of the year. Is it indulgent? Absolutely. But we hope equally enjoyable to listen to!
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It’s been a while since I got to attend a game night. Learning, playing,and doing absolutely terrible in Marrakesh last night was a delight.
LTF forever!
A little late to post, but I had a superb time @stonemaiergames.com design day. Paul, @petewiss.bsky.social, and I will recap the whole thing on next week’s pod.
A huge thank you to all these wonderful people playtesting Arcanist Battle!
Will you allow for an absurdist detour for our interdecisional spaceship?
15.10.2025 18:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Alright Decision space Podcast and @perryjon.bsky.social, let’s see what all the hype is about.
14.10.2025 20:11 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This should be beige-ier! Way beige-ier!
14.10.2025 15:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You’ve had a legendary start to your game design journey in just 4 years. Way to go!
12.10.2025 03:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks for joining us, Jon! Some great design notes here!
08.10.2025 14:30 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well they don’t call you Board Game Cold Takes
05.10.2025 02:09 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Player interaction? I got your player interaction right here 👊
Some of you have never placed 4 tiles and drawn 6 seed cards in a single turn of Apiary and it really shows.
When Brendan says reviewing Dominion is like reviewing Starry Night, I can only assume this is the kind of thing he is talking about.
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Like board game podcasts? Checkout Reggie's video that calls out some great shows (and introduced me to a few).
And check out Reggie's new podcast, Board States!
Decision Space host @petewiss.bsky.social is really doing the game design thing. Way to go, buddy!!
01.10.2025 15:59 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0When is the deckbuilding root faction gonna drop?
01.10.2025 15:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0…do I have to say it? 😂
29.09.2025 23:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Seems like a tag team episode is likely!
29.09.2025 19:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One of the 23 regions of Bremen, hometown of Friedemann Friese is coming alive on my table tonight. Findorff!
16.09.2025 00:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The year is 20XX and every new board game is Lord of the Rings themed.
15.09.2025 19:02 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Kickball is a 3/3 on the Salomon scale.
13.09.2025 21:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is a great review. I’be been playing a lot of Apiary recently, and one thing that I think gives it a nudge towards competitive play is how complex turn sequencing can be.
Players have many decisions to make on their turn, and I think play skill here can mitigate some of the tile randomness.
On the audio format it is so hard to calibrate this right imo.
We can go long on how/why the game presents interesting decisions, and then I catch myself thinking, is anyone following this? And then I want to throw in some more exposition of how the game works to ground listeners.
Good news! My team survived week of the Decision Space guillotine fantasy football league!
10.09.2025 17:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
