Carol Mertz

thank you for the boost, friend ♥️

Hey y'all, reminder that I'll be at GDC giving two (2) talks!

Monday at 11:50, I'll be talking about how we can make board games better for the planet.

Friday at 12:30 (new time!) I'll be at the Experimental Games Showcase talking about how the escape room in my apartment made my friends cry.

I have some time for casual hangs, so if we're mutuals let me know if you want to hug and/or hang out.

(Also a heads up, I am recovering from the recent loss of a close family member, so I'm prob going to be a bit out of it this year. Have patience with me if I seem a lil off, please ♥️)

Hey y'all, reminder that I'll be at GDC giving two (2) talks!

Monday at 11:50, I'll be talking about how we can make board games better for the planet.

Friday at 12:30 (new time!) I'll be at the Experimental Games Showcase talking about how the escape room in my apartment made my friends cry.

Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

Once again.

I still believe strongly in "when they go low, we go high" as long as "high" means "finally sign onto the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court and see that they are prosecuted for war crimes and human right violations"

I haven’t been good about promoting my upcoming GDC talks but guess what! I have a couple upcoming GDC talks!

Swing by Monday at 11:50 to learn how we can make board games more sustainable, and come fight me on Friday at 1:10 to hear how I made my friends cry

(For real though don’t fight me, but you should come to the Experimental Games Showcase on Friday at 1:10 where a bunch of amazing game devs will talk about the weird and wonderful stuff they’ve been working on! And also I’m talking about how I made my friends cry)

I haven’t been good about promoting my upcoming GDC talks but guess what! I have a couple upcoming GDC talks!

Swing by Monday at 11:50 to learn how we can make board games more sustainable, and come fight me on Friday at 1:10 to hear how I made my friends cry

Challenging tabletop production status quo! Learn practical & idealistic methods for sustainable board game creation at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026! 🌱

Session: https://bit.ly/4rE164R
Passes: https://bit.ly/48w1DxK

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all the speaker applications that started with A and B musta gotten accidentally trashed by the AI

i said wrong answers

hang on that's not what it stands for???

f

yea that makes sense

someone please explain to me why they put me on the gdc homepage (wrong answers only)

Reinstate our teammates now! Kickstarter is retaliating against our union members for our legally-protected strike action in October 2025. Four union members have been laid off or forced to leave our union by leadership, despite clear business needs for these members' roles. Email Kickstarter's CEO and tell him this is illegal and unacceptable! e@kickstarter.com

Despite being back at work, Kickstarter is retaliating against our teammates for our legally-protected strike action from last year. Tell Kickstarter’s CEO this is both ILLEGAL and UNACCEPTABLE

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Crawling out of the grief sinkhole ain’t easy.

We're Hiring! Join the NYU Game Center Faculty as an Associate Professor! - NYU | Game Center Description Associate or Full tenure professor position for the NYU Game Center New York University, Tisch School of the Arts Position Overview The NYU Game Center is seeking applicants to join its fa...

The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential!
gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-...

A poster hanging in a bookstore. The design is a modern reinterpretation of a tarot card, with a person pierced by ten swords doomscrolling their phone. The text reads “everything is fine”

I’m so sorry Rori. ♥️

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I would have believed you if you said this actually happened

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because it’s coffee and Reddit time

A GDC poll has found that 31% of responding international developers have cancelled plans to attend the event this year, with a further 33% considering it, because people just don't feel safe travelling to the United States right now:

aftermath.site/i-do-not-feel-...

Please pay attention to what's happening in Minneapolis, Minnesota. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

Reposts are appreciated.

US’s largest nurses’ union demands abolition of ICE after Alex Pretti killing The union vowed to do everything in its power to ensure Congress members who vote to fund DHS are voted out.

The union vowed to do everything in its power to ensure Congress members who vote to fund DHS are voted out.