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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub

@privetera.com
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Storyteller 1st. Then Writer, Game Designer, Musician, Sphynx Curator, Partial Robot, Tech Engineer, Root Node for Priveteras, He/Him

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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 13/03/2026
I'm at #Unpub @unpub.org ! Testing Yaga, my dexterity/ pick up and deliver/ assymeyric game! The Bone Faction has built an Ossuary which scores as long as no one knocks it over!
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 13/03/2026
I'm at #Unpub @unpub.org ! Testing Yaga, my dexterity/ pick up and deliver game! Here my Chicken Leg faction managed to build a nest. If i return and there's an egg in it they'll hatch and eat all the Reaples for points! So far everyone's first opinion is that it's weird... but fun.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 21/11/2025
Testing Nekropolis, my Yaga worker placement area control thing. You walk giant city blocks around a city, the buildings on them (dice) rolling by shaking the whole Yaga. Vety toyetic. Testing going very well!
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 13/11/2025
Hey folks. Aside from Iron Man plots ands Sphynx pics I also do a little boardgame design and I'll be at PaxUnplugged in a week! I'll be showing off Trinket Trove by @gameheadgames.bsky.social and a few of my new designs I'm testing at @unpub.org!
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 13/11/2025
Weather getting colder and my co-designer Moxie is bundlin' up.
Rocco sitting in a chair with Moxie the sphynx wearing a brown fluffy coat sleeping on his shoulder.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 09/11/2025
#freeironmanplots "Brain Broken". There's a been a few storylines where Tony did biomedical hacking. In this one, Tony starts to get panic attacks and attempts to hack himself to fix it but it goes badly. That's it that's the pitch.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 25/09/2025
#freeironmanplots "Van Life" After getting attacked in his home(s) a few times, including terrible collateral damage to neighbors, Tony decides screw this and just lives out of a van for a while. Thats it thats the idea.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 12/09/2025
Jamey liked some stuff in Trinket Trove! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WpK...
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Trinket Trove: My Favorite Mechanism
YouTube video by Stonemaier Games
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Daniel Newman // New Mill Industries @dnlnwmn.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
ok ok sneak peek. here are the covers for the games that will be up for preorder next month. will talk about each of them soon!
Fright Factor coverRoboKraft coverVegeterrors coverYonkai no Yokai cover
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 02/09/2025
#freeironmanplots "Blast From The Past #1". The IRL Meat version of Tony is offline and an AI imposter takes over. So I've read some of the stories where Tony makes an AI out of himself, and each time he builds an AI it seems like a very chaotic process - hold that thought.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 27/08/2025
#freeironmanplots This one I call "Girlfriend Enemy". This is more of a regular plot, but I have some ideas to make it an iron man plot. Tony starts dating someone new, and falls head over heels. And she's amazing. Awesome hot smashing. Super smart. Knows more data security & encryption than Tony.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 25/08/2025
Back after 2 weeks in Japan. Very hot. But awesome. It's nice ot be home, mostly because I missed my cats. But oh how expensive the US is in comparison.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 29/07/2025
Well, I'm finally confirmed going to Gencon. It's my first time in 13 years and I'm a little anxious. OT1H I'm going because I have a game doing very well (Trinket Trove) on the BGG Hotness no less, so I'm going to try and sign some copies. OTOH due to family BS and tragedy I didn't do any planning.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 26/07/2025
#freeironmanplots "The Rogue Backup". So one day someone, Could be Stark Inc or someone else, sends a new satellite/probe around the side of the sun opposite Earth and discovers an odd sight: a captured asteroid swarmed with robots, building orbital solar collectors. And using Stark tech to do it.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 24/07/2025
#freeironmanplots This one I call "Tony Makes A Mistake" and it's just that. I can't remember any time (I'm sure there must be?) where Tony was engineering something and made a mistake.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 24/07/2025
Folks, I need help. I forgot to get #GenCon badges! And didn't know they are non-transferrable. Anybody with a booth who needs help or $ or something, I can do demos or even some game testing and dev/design if you need it. As extra payment, here is Moxie's butthole as she is crazy needy today.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 21/07/2025
Trinket Trove How To Play! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmjJ...
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Trinket Trove | How to Play | Learn to Play in 5 Minutes!
YouTube video by kovray
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 21/07/2025
#freeIronManPlots I call this one "Tinker, Surgeon, Psych, Iron Man." Ok, so we all know Tony has no compunctions with doing a little biohacking, self-hacking, etc. And he has the best doctors/scientists/etc in the business on speed dial. Which to someone like Tony, could be bad.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 14/07/2025
#freeIronManPlots I like the times when Tony has to build a new suit on the fly (not this horrible current run) but it needs some context, so I'm calling this "IronMad Men". Someplace in the good ol' USA, an experimental town to train spies was built looking like 1950's America.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 10/07/2025
#freeIronManPlots One plot type that HAS been used but that I don't mind is the "Tony Gets New Job". When I was taking a class in screenwriting reality shows, the teacher described a reality show as "assholes with interesting jobs" and that suits Tony to a T. Secretary of Defense, head of Shield?
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 10/07/2025
Here is my first in a series of ongoing Iron Man plots. I *always* was an Iron Man fanboy, more because of the science & tech and less because I loved the fantasy of a billionaire using money for fighting crime. It seems like most Iron Man arcs stick to the same 3-4 tired ideas. #freeIronManPlots
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 26/06/2025
My designer copies of Trinket Trove arrived! My small shelf of published games is growing!
A shelf with boardgames, including Trinket Trove, Ninja Dice, and Barbarian Vince.
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お金ないんでルール読んで妄想遊戯.bsky.social @okanenainde.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Trinket Trove boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43... boardgamegeek.com/filepage/295... 小動物たちが巣穴を飾り付けるためにキラキラした小物を集める2‐6人用カードゲーム。手札から小物を出してドラフト順を競り、卓上に並んだ小物を手に入れ、規定ラウンド後の合計点を競う。英文ルール公開中。
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 04/06/2025
Got a nice review for the game I designed being published by @gameheadgames.bsky.social by the folks at @thedicetower.bsky.social ! And they are right, it's incredibly adorbs, with art by @art-of-sandara.bsky.social and design by @vegagamestudio.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAhT...
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Trinket Trove Review: One Mouse's Trash...
YouTube video by The Dice Tower
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 20/05/2025
My game Trinket Trove, published by @gameheadgames.bsky.social, at Geekway, pic by someone who picked it up. It's real! It's a real thing happening!
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 19/05/2025
Morning work with my coworker Moxie.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 14/05/2025
Moxie the House Goblin, hibernating from winter, cautiously dons a sparkly pink outfit and moves half her body outside of her heated blanket fort to check the living room temperature.
Moxie the Sphynx, wearing a pink sparkly shirt, sticking her upper body out of her blanket-covered house.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 08/05/2025
Moxie's got a little greeble energy today.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 24/04/2025
Moxie's taking a PJ day.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 13/04/2025
Moxie getting toasty in her little house, wearing her coat. Colder weather outta nowhere!
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 08/04/2025
Moxie is a bit squirmy today.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 07/04/2025
The thing I don't think you get is that Moxie is a very smol cat. So smol. She never does anything wrong and she needs a lot of cuddles because it's a big world and she's very smol.
Moxie my blue sphynx, wearing a striped shirt, cuddled up on my chest
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 01/04/2025
Moxie is glad I'm back.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 01/04/2025
Final playtest of Nekropolis at Unpub25! Per some amazing tester observations and feedback, I had to do a little battlefield surgery but I was able to, and have a test as well, and things indeed were smoother! That's what Unpub is for!
Picture of a boardgame prototype
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 29/03/2025
Also testing at unpub: You Walk Dragons, a cozy solo card game where you run a dragon walking business.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 29/03/2025
I'm at unpub! I'm testing games! Come visit! Here is a 2c played game of Nekropolis, just finished. A combination of stores caused the Civic District (bottom left) to turn into a rager!
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 26/03/2025
My coworker Moxie is not focusing today.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 24/03/2025
An excellent game design thread by @gil.hova.net !
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 24/03/2025
A lot of prototypes to work on and a day job to work on and a side job to work on but my co-worker Moxie is chipping in.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 21/03/2025
Working hard on protos for @unpub.bsky.social but as always found time to hang out with Moxie.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 10/03/2025
I was in another thread about how I wished I didn't have to do sell sheets. I'm a game designer, not a good artist or graphic designer. A few folks say no, but a lot of publishers say yes. I'm wondering here & maybe a publisher can weigh in: What if I just had something with a qr code to a video?
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 05/03/2025
I love getting a chance to playtest boardgames with new people at cons. Going to @g2summit.bsky.social this weekend up in New Hampshire! If you have a game you want to test, either find me or msg me here and I'll try and make it happen. I'm bringing a few light games of my own if time permits!
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 03/03/2025
Moxie is not loving the standing desk. I want to accommodate my co-worker but I can't snuggle her when standing. She is giving me some feedback that mostly involves crying and biting.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 28/02/2025
Moxie on the hamper in a sunbeam. You get warmth where you can find it.
Moxie the sphynx cat in a brown stole on a clothes hamper in a sunbeam
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 26/02/2025
Whoops - almost forgot today's Moxie. She's in full potato mode and helping me troubleshoot a SAML connection to an enterprise SSO app.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 26/02/2025
Trinket Trove, my game published by GameHead, is being demoed at GAMA!
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 24/02/2025
Moxie snuggling in her sunny jumper.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 21/02/2025
A slightly older pic of Moxie but it's priceless. Such a sweet girl!
Moxie the sphynx grabbing my arm with an enraged face
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 19/02/2025
Your fault Moxie, getting all chill and toasty in her heated house.
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Rocco Privetera (he/him) 🔜 UnPub @privetera.com · 18/02/2025
Yeah, we've been meeting IRL and going strong for a few years now. Here's a link to the Discord: discord.gg/cMKypexRYs
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Join the NYC-Playtest Discord Server!
Check out the NYC-Playtest community on Discord - hang out with 235 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
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