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Decision Space is the podcast about decisions in board games.
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Episode 162 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Drafting, Part One
Brendan is back in the saddle, and we settle down to part one in a two (or more) part series on drafting in board games. This episode is specifically on drafting as a mechanism and how this common mechanism shows up in games. It's a mechanism survey folks. Sound the alarm!
Pre-Planners
Ticket To Ride, Food Chain Magnate, Taverns of Tiefenthal, Quantum
Timestamps
Intro - 0:00
Drafting - 4:08
Blood Rage, Ark Nova,
Booster Draft/Magic the Gathering - 14:00
Grid Drafting/Sobek for 2 Players - 18:52
Push Your Luck Drafting/Coloretto/Kanagawa/Circus Flocati - 22:06
Winston Draft - 28:15
Memory in Drafting - 31:35
I Cut You Choose/Wingspan/ - 36:00
Variable Set Up Drafting/Agricola/Age of Innovation/Catan/Findorff - 40:55
Entwined Drafting/Cascadia - 46:03
Player Arranged Drafting/Kingdomino/Arboretum/Enchanged Plumes - 48:15
Solitaire Drafting/Challengers! - 55:06
Card Row Drafting/Star Reals/Robot Quest Arena - 57:21
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 Instagram @DecisionSpacePod and talk to us there! 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!
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 162 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Drafting, Part One
Brendan is back in the saddle, and we settle down to part one in a two (or more) part series on drafting in board games. This episode is specifically on drafting as a mechanism and how this common mechanism shows up in games. It's a mechanism survey folks. Sound the alarm!
Pre-Planners
Ticket To Ride, Food Chain Magnate, Taverns of Tiefenthal, Quantum
Timestamps
Intro - 0:00
Drafting - 4:08
Blood Rage, Ark Nova,
Booster Draft/Magic the Gathering - 14:00
Grid Drafting/Sobek for 2 Players - 18:52
Push Your Luck Drafting/Coloretto/Kanagawa/Circus Flocati - 22:06
Winston Draft - 28:15
Memory in Drafting - 31:35
I Cut You Choose/Wingspan/ - 36:00
Variable Set Up Drafting/Agricola/Age of Innovation/Catan/Findorff - 40:55
Entwined Drafting/Cascadia - 46:03
Player Arranged Drafting/Kingdomino/Arboretum/Enchanged Plumes - 48:15
Solitaire Drafting/Challengers! - 55:06
Card Row Drafting/Star Reals/Robot Quest Arena - 57:21
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 Instagram @DecisionSpacePod and talk to us there! 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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