Who is Matt Round and what projects has he worked on?

Matt Round is a UK-based developer and creative lead who devises, plans and builds online projects. His own site, mattround.com, is a personal timeline rather than a company page: it lists the roles, employers and side projects he has worked on since the mid-1980s. If you want to know what he does now, the answer is at the top of that timeline — since 2019 he has been running VOLE.wtf, described as an attempt to make the internet a bit more fun with viral games and assorted nonsense.

How to read the mattround.com timeline

The site presents a single chronological list, newest first, with each entry giving a date range, a short label and a one-line description. There is no separate portfolio, blog or contact form. Contact is by Mastodon, Bluesky, or email using his first name at the domain.

What each period tells you

VOLE.wtf (2019 – now)

This is the current focus and the clearest signal of what Round does today: browser-based games and light-hearted viral content. The site describes it as an ongoing effort rather than a finished product, so expect the output to change over time.

Creative Lead at Distilled (2015 – 2019)

A role rather than a project. Round devised, planned and steered online marketing projects for a range of Distilled clients — useful context if you are trying to place him in the search and content marketing world rather than only in game development.

UsVsTh3m (2013 – 2015)

Games and quizzes for what the site calls a three-month media experiment that ended up lasting two years. This is the period most likely to explain why his later work leans toward shareable, quick-to-play formats.

Earlier work (1984 – 2013)

The long tail covers freelance web development, online marketing and Flash games, agency work for UK consumer brands and government, car-related sites, mainframe coding and bulletin board systems, and finally learning to program on a ZX Spectrum in BASIC and Z80 machine code. Read together, they show a continuous path from low-level hobby programming to commercial web work to viral game projects.

What the site does not tell you

• No pricing, services or availability are listed, so it is not a hire-me page.
• No project names are given for the Distilled, agency or freelance periods — only the type of work.
• No dates beyond the ranges shown, and no links out to the individual games or clients.

If your question is simply "what is mattround.com?", the short answer is: a personal career timeline for Matt Round, current operator of VOLE.wtf, with contact details for Mastodon, Bluesky and email.