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The Wow Factor of Games

The Wow Factor of Games

Update: 2025-06-04
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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


 


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This information is all available along with episodes at our new website decisionspacepodcast.com.


Byeee!

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The Wow Factor of Games

The Wow Factor of Games

Jacob Frydman, Brendan Hansen