Joined by co-pilot Gnarly Carley, we each highlight four games in which a single mechanic MAKES the game

Augmenting randomness in space one turn at a time.

What’s the deal with depth?

It's Reiner Knizia day!

Dust off your rift rocks (as they say) because today we are covering Riftforce.

We share our personal design histories and then talk about the game design process.

Let this meeting come to order.

A clever little game, does it hold up?

Jake attended a board game convention for the first time in three years!

We are joined by philosopher and author C. Thi Nguyen to discuss the ideas in his incredible book Games: Agency as Art

Buckle your safety belts because this one gets a little bit bumpy.

As card-carrying members of the PWH fan club, we're excited to sink our teeth into this super-light game

You asked, and in this episode, we answer.

In the second part of the first two-part episode ever, Brendan and Jake apply our decision space lens to Tigris & Euphrates.

In the first part of the first two-part episode ever, Brendan and Jake spar about the merits of Tigris and Euphrates.

Howdy! Today, we cover a game that, fittingly, Brendan and I have both had our own long and winding journeys with.

This episode is all about the way we play board games digitally and what we've learned from the experience.

An extravagant menu, satisfying options, and playing out over 7 courses, A Feast for Odin by Uwe Rosenberg delivers on the promise of a decadent gaming experience and then some.

Wow! It's a new way to talk about type episode after long last. In this one, Brendan presents his new framework for describing scoring/objective systems in games. These come in three types, solitary, juxtaposed, and overlaid.

Imagine if to fold in poker you had to say, "I'm a cowardly hill witch." Well, that is basically Broom Service in a nutshell, and I don't need to say more than that to tell you that Broom Service is an incredible game.