Carol Mertz

@carolmertz.itch.io

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Game designer. Currently at Innersloth, prev Exploding Kittens. Also worked on HELLCOUCH, With You, We should talk, & lots more lil stuff. 🎮 carolmertz.itch.io 🃏 bit.ly/carolsBGG 🌱 PlayWithYourOwnJunk.com she/her | st. louis, mo | http://carolmertz.com

Ditto as Carol, a blonde humanoid with space buns, glasses, and a plaid shirt

Carol, wearing a mask and headphones because Jesus Christ, poses with Jesus Christ

A paper sign that says “HEY! Don’t touch the monkey, this means you!” pasted to a cardboard panel. The cardboard is fastened to a pole in front of a cage (monkey not visible, but you can be sure it’s in there)

The 2026 ExGS cohort at GDC

Cat coughing like an iPad kid

Baby Kermit looking at his phone, then gently hugging it

The title card for "With You," with its two little characters looking at each other from opposite sides.

A shitty drawing of a horse saying “hay thanks”

A video of Carol feverishly working at her computer, with a caption listing all the things she’s done this year, followed by her head down on her computer desk with a caption saying it’s all been a distraction from grief, followed by her again working feverishly at the computer with a caption that says she’s been working on a game jam with the girlies.

Carol explains: “I turned my apartment into an interactive puzzle room that only my friends can play!”

a pixel-art mario made of colored translucent cubes of jello

A small patterned box with a combination lock securing it, with four colored symbols on the lock, one next to each wheel. The box and lock sit atop a small colorful journal with “Dear Diary” scrawled on the front.

A bottle of Nivea UV super water gel SPF 50, a Japanese sunscreen.

A finished trello card that says “respond to emails because I’m a big girl”

Nathan Fielder standing in the middle of an airplane crash scene, looking down at what appears to be two crash victims still strapped to their seats.

Nathan fielder dressed as a child while sitting on an oversized children’s bed

Nathan Fielder wearing a captains uniform, grinning as he steps off the 737 he successfully landed, saving 150 passengers.

Nathan Fielder looking both pensive and foreboding in front of a fiery backdrop

Nathan Fielder with a laptop strapped to his chest, staring intensely at a subject offscreen

A collection of colorful Italian gluten-free pastries

A set of diamond-shaped stairs covered in moss leading up toward old Parisian buildings. On a wall above the stairs is a large graffiti of a space invader

A meme of a dude standing in the corner at a party by themself, saying “they don’t know I designed two of these games”

Carol’s face on two cards: a 4 of spades and a 7 of spades.

A picture of Carol lookin fire tbh, wearing a black and white marbled top. A caption reads “see u nerds at IGF tonight.”

A picture of Carol on a 7 of Spades, with her studio labeled “Insationable cucle”

Carol joyously hugs a my-size snorlax in a Costco warehouse

A train car with graffiti on it that says “destroying train cars ‘25”

A few purple crocuses growing in some dry grass

A seated video setup with very bisexual lighting

A blurry screenshot of a small, faded projection of Hello Kitty Island Adventure next to a ceiling fan.

The steam store page for With You

A mess of GDScript code projected on the ceiling next to a ceiling fan

Printouts haphazardly pasted onto a wall: a “Hang In There” paper with Garfield grumpily hanging by his shirt, with a cutout of snoopy looking lobotomized below

a floppy hand smacks white balls that slowly float offscreen

a floppy hand waves aimlessly around the screen

Finn from adventure time asking his doppelganger Fern: "you need a squoze?" Fern responds "Yes," so Finn gives him a real good squoze.

Chappell Roan dancing to Mario Kart music with the text overlay "girls who get 9-12th in mario kart know how to fuck"

Terry, a cross-eyed Tabby, inquisitively sticks her face in the camera, pawing at the screen.

A weather radar image showing a shape of a penis across the midwest

A stack of various loose leaf teas

A close-up of a jar of homemade pickle relish

An image of Marcel duchamp’s “fountain,” which was just a urinal in an art gallery

Two cute cat avatars are fishing against a black background