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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 19h

The Great British Bake Off is back - my autumn is complete. Baking-related drama and Noel Fielding can make any week better. 🍪🍰

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love this idea from @am0.bsky.social and will be playing! Check it out!

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fall is here! October is here! My favorite month. So on October 1st I went to the woods with Loki and captured all the things that make me happy about this part of the year: leaves, bright colors, mushrooms, nuts, softer light, spooky darkness. Happy Autumn - go out and enjoy the beauty! 🍁🍂🍄

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Playtest Material @playtestmaterial.bsky.social Issue 1 is out, and it's freely available online. But if you can, also consider subscribing - it's a great way to support this kind of great projects! playtestmaterial.org Thank you @laurieoc.bsky.social for creating this resource!

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Playtest Material

publishing critical writing about roleplaying games

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Generational shock delivered by my Gen Z class today ... I felt old, friends.

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I just got this TTRPg by @scorchadoom.bsky.social, and you should check it out, too! It's PBTA. It's survival horror. It's young women in the ’90s. It's a weeklong bonding trip gone wrong. sarahdoom.itch.io/in-the-pines

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Very happy and proud to see Wesleyan colleague and incredible writer Maaza Mengiste receive a MacArthur Genius Grant. 💗 www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

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Maaza Mengiste

Revealing the human costs of political violence through a compelling blend of history, memory, and imagination.

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have played both Violent Delights and Mousetrap, and I have run Violent Delights for friends. They are both incredible in different ways, both pushing the limits of the medium and offering intriguing takes on Shakespeare, minigames, metagaming, and the relationship between character and player.

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This was the best #2! On my way back from Canada, I stopped to have lunch with my wonderful friend @jenkatwrites.bsky.social and we chatted about life, games, Metatopia, and books. 🩵 Check out her latest game in playtest, Collegiate Gothic! jen-adcock15.itch.io/collegiate-g...

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ok, I feel that Kitchener was putting up a show during my evening walk in Victoria Park... Absolutely breathtaking subset. I will be back soon, Canada! 🇨🇦🍁

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This was the absolute best! Since I am in Ontario for a conference, I could finally meet my awesome co-host for @rpgroots.bsky.social - @senfoonglim.bsky.social ! We had a great Indonesian fusion dinner at Bhima's Warung and it was just so delightful to chat in person! 🩵

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Very excited to be in Waterloo, ON today to attend and participate in the Canadian Association of Italian Studies 2026 Teaching Symposium! And also, generally happy to be in Canada for a few days. 💙 For program and Zoom links: caisteachingsymposium.wordpress.com/2026-program/

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WobbuPalooza @wobbupalooza.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This interview reminds me how, in dialogues of everyday life, a language-learning text from 1605 gives names of parlor games in English & French (purposes, etc.): archive.org/details/bim_... So, so many were simple games of memory, questions, and wordplay for large groups wobbupalooza.neocities.org

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Early Collaborative Games of Fantasy and Imagination

Collaborative storytelling games, early roleplaying games, Surrealist games, and parlor games throughout history, but especially in the 19th Century

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It was absolutely incredible to see two masters of their craft at work with a large group and in the proper setting. Expect more pictures soon - this was pure magic! ✨ Thanks to @jmstar.bsky.social and @lizziestark.bsky.social for being wonderful human beings and inspiring creators.

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This was a delightful interview at the University of Arkansas! Angela and Larissa were great! 🩵 open.spotify.com/episode/2HGP...

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Really looking forward to reading this! Especially after meeting @nsorvis.bsky.social yesterday! Take a look 😀

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Last night's event at @backagaincafe.bsky.social was delightful - we playtested new Desperation sets and chatted with @jmstar.bsky.social ! We continue today with the talk at 12 pm at @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social . Thanks all!

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today was crisp, chilly, and wonderful. The best season is upon us and I could not be more excited! 🍂🍁🍄 I just wish I had more time to hike and enjoy the gorgeous parade of decay that will be with us for the next few weeks. Go outside!

A picture of a black dog on top of some rocks in the woods around Miller's Pond State Park, Connecticut.

A picture of leaves changing color in the woods around Miller's Pond State Park, Connecticut.

A picture of a sunset on a lake in the woods around Miller's Pond State Park, Connecticut.

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am not surprised, but this is still depressing. Gift access: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Finally watching "Red, White, and Royal Blue" and it is delightfully silly - the banter is great! Best thing? Uma Thurman as a reasonable US president. If only.

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Red, White & Royal Blue (film) - Wikipedia

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@jenkatwrites.bsky.social's new game-in-playtest, "Collegiate Gothic" (a dark academia PBTA), is outtt! Go check it out: jen-adcock15.itch.io/collegiate-g...

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Collegiate Gothic - Playtest Edition by Owl Knight Games, by Jennifer Adcock

Crime and toxicity at the elite institution in this dark academia PbtA

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A great interview with a truly great person! Thank you @scorchadoom.bsky.social and see you soon at Metatopia - I can't wait to try Velvet Glove!

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Also, when I am so tired that I just want to shut down, Albino Armani's Valpolicella Superiore "Egle" never disappoints. Total Wine and other retailers carry it - try it, friends. From the beautiful hills of Valpolicella, just north of fair Verona. 🍷❤️ #saturdayrest

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This past week was insanely hectic and exhausting, but closing it with our first Language Games event with 25+ students was fantastic. We played Anomia, Dixit, Just One, Slapzi, and I recruited interested folks for Rosetta, First Contact, Sign, Da Da Da, Gibberers... Lots to look forward to! 🩵

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Another fantastic interview, and we discussed one of my favorite games of all time! 💙

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As I go into Week 2 of the Educational Game Lab course, I am reminded of just how good this book by Eric Zimmerman is: www.theruleswebreak.com (and if you want to see a playful way to present and discuss the first few pages in class, let me know - happy to share!)

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The Rules We Break - a book by Eric Zimmerman | PA Press

The Rules We Break is a game design book by Eric Zimmerman, published by Princeton Architectural Press. Peek inside the book, download game sheets and find where to buy the book on our official websit...

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Bully Pulpit Games @bullypulpithq.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Cool news to share about the Wesleyan event on the 23rd! @lizziestark.bsky.social is joining @jmstar.bsky.social for the conversation about the history of play as a form of resistance and so much more! #TTRPGs #RPGs #gaming

Promotional flyer for an event. The text from the top to the bottom reads: Jason Morningstar is a game designer who lives and works in Durham, NC. He creates tabletop and live action role-playing games for his label "Bully Pulpit Games" and for clients like Google and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jason and his games have been featured at Indiecade, in the Gen Con 50th anniversary museum, and at a variety of events, Including Ropecon, Gen Con, PLAY Bologna, Pyrkon, Lucca Comics and Games, and Dragon Con. DESIGNING GAMES FOR EMPATHY AND RESISTANCE. Jason will discuss the practice of analog game design, focusing on techniques for crafting games that offer distinct player perspectives and affordances. Drawing on examples from Augusto Boal to J. Tuomas Harviainen, he will examine the history of play as a form of resistance, as well as the ways games fall short in that role. He will share his frameworks, tools, and techniques for building passionate, political, and emotionally charged games, and invite you to do the same. In conversation with Lizzie Stark, participation designer and author of Egg and Leaving Mundania. Wesleyan University Sponsored by the College of Education Studies, the College of Design and Engineering Studies, and the Theater Department. Beneath their two inset photographs, the text reads Wed, September 23 at 12:00 pm RLL Common Room 300 High Street Lunch included. There are also an assortment of published games from Bully Pulpit Games: Fiasco, Zhenya's Wonder Tales, Grey Ranks, Winterhorn, Carolina Death Crawl, and Night Witches.

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wesleyan campus in September. All is still green, but the chill in the air signals the imminent arrival of the best season. Also, a bonus shot of the beautiful dawn this morning (getting up early to finish work can have some perks).

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The past two evenings were great on the @unwrittenearths.bsky.social Discord community. On Monday we chatted about struggles with game design and gave each other advice and feedback with @thestalwart.bsky.social, @epidiah.bsky.social, @jenkatwrites.bsky.social, and Emily Care Boss...

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So the renovated Romance Languages lounge at @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social is now a mid century modern dream.🩵🩵 I'm so glad it is not a sleek contemporary look. It looks inviting, humane, cozy.

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This! @adapalmer.bsky.social and a deep dive into Machiavelli is all I needed to know.

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Great 3-part series on menopause and perimenopause - a criminally understudied phenomenon that affects more than half the population. Give it a listen!

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Emmenology (MENOPAUSE & PERIMENOPAUSE) Part 1 with Monica Christmas, Mary Claire Haver and Lara Durgavich

Ologies with Alie Ward · Episode

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So @jmstar.bsky.social's talk at Wesleyan on 09/23 got even better because the amazing @lizziestark.bsky.social will come down from Boston and join us! So here's a new poster! Join us on Wed 9/23 at 12:00 pm in RLL Common Room (300 High Street) at @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social and please share!

A poster with images and text, advertising a talk by game designer Jason Morningstar in conversation with participation designer Lizzie Start to be held at Wesleyan University on September 23 at 12 pm.

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today we had a horse ride at dawn, a big proposal for Julia, and an opulent Masquerade Ball with all sorts of drama! We are wrapping up the playtest campaign for "Before the Season Ends" by @jenkatwrites.bsky.social and it is truly a delightful game. Link: jen-adcock15.itch.io/before-the-s...

The picture depicts The Fighting Temeraire, an oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner, painted in 1838 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1839. The colors from this painting are a recurring theme for my character in this game, Miss Margaret Wells - and one of the main connections she has with her love interest, Mr. Alexander Delaney.

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

So many good people I know (like @senfoonglim.bsky.social in the game design team and the MG Solutions team to curate the campaign) are involved in this good project to bring back Rat Queens after the previous team never delivered the game. Take a look! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

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Rat Queens - Vengeance on Villains

From Rat Queens creators Kurtis Wiebe & Roc Upchurch and designed by Sen Foong-Lim and Erica Bouyouris! A fast-paced, co-operative deck-building tower defence game where friendship makes you stronger ...

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh how delightful when you meet ex students at Wesleyan to play a game of @jmstar.bsky.social's Zhenya's Wonder tales but then you find out you are both in different campaigns of @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social's Girl Fr ame and spend 40+ minutes gushing about that game...

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A really cool event by Escapism Productions at the Wilton Historical Society in Wilton, CT. I have been to two of their previous shows, all really well-done! And they are combining the events on Saturday 10/03 with a tavern night.

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“Last Meeting in Millbrook” – An Immersive Historical Vampire Tale | Wilton Historical Society

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Hugo winner (Best Related Work) "Inventing the Renaissance" by the amazing @adapalmer.bsky.social just arrived and I cannot wait to read it! It makes me so happy to see one of my favorite Florentine statues on the cover, to have a Content list and chapters that read like compelling fiction...

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Back to the Educational Game Lab, a course I truly love to teach! We played party games and talked about play and learning. Games played last night: Wavelength, Just One, Prey Another Day, and Things in Rings. (Students, in groups, will create their own games throughout the semester)

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In this day and age (and especially in the gruesome first week of classes), there is absolutely nothing more delightful than receiving mail - snail mail! - from a friend. Thank you @tenpenjenn.com for making my day! 💖

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

After a lovely but very full first day of classes and a very intense and destructive session of Girl Frame, I was rewarded in the evening by beautiful call of a barred owl - one of my favorite birds - as company while I finish some work. Fall cannot come soon enough. 🍂🍁🍄

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