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Mats

@travelmats.bsky.social
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I've been making things for the Internet since 1995. Solo developing web apps. Open web idealist. Nostalgic futurist, enthusiastic tourist and art lover. There will be art retweets and travel photos.

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Trailmarks HQ @trailmarkshq.com · 05/10/2026
I fixed the map so it crosses the Pacific Ocean properly. The flight paths now also generally follow great circles. I wonder if it would be better to use *actual* flight corridors instead of direct lines, or if it's potentally confusing for a conceptual map.. #trailmarks #gamedev
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not the best results in the Daily Journey today, but India is difficult 🤨
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
About to sit down for the 4th time to finish The Rehearsal S2Ep4 without cringing to death
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I just added Game Center leaderboards to Trailmarks, and the fourth person to register a score 10x’d my own personal best 😭
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Trailmarks HQ @trailmarkshq.com · 12/09/2026
🛫 TRAILMARKS FOR iOS IS NOW OUT 🛬 We have 5 promo codes for a FREE copy of the game to hand out. To participate, just reskeet this and reply telling us about the longest trip you've ever made. The five most liked replies get the goods! apps.apple.com/us/app/trail... #games #travel
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Slop" is just what we now call the work of happy amateurs and hobbyists. It's the opposite of polished corporate products, which is not slop. Prove me wrong.
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Trailmarks HQ @trailmarkshq.com · 27/08/2026
🛫Trailmarks iPhone coming September 4th 🎫 Pre-order for $4.99 👉 apps.apple.com/us/app/trail... #mobile #games #indiegames
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Trailmarks HQ @trailmarkshq.com · 27/08/2026
Teaser Trailer for Trailmarks iOS #gametrailers #gamedev
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Trailmarks HQ @trailmarkshq.com · 25/08/2026
👇 www.pocketgamer.com/trailmarks/a...
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Trailmarks turns correct answers into tickets across 1,000 real cities
Trailmarks comes to iPhone on September 4th, turning 99,000 trivia questions into fares across more than 1,000 real-world cities
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Do what you love, and you will never work a day in your life. At least until it's time to do the marketing part.
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Trailmarks HQ @trailmarkshq.com · 21/08/2026
🛫 Trailmarks for iOS is open for pre-orders! A completely rebuilt game in the same universe as Trailmarks for Desktop, Trailmarks for iOS is a trivia card game as a reigns-/roguelike, taking you on a global journey driven by your trivia and reasoning skills. 🛅 apps.apple.com/us/app/trail... #games
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Brawlcats @brawlcats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
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Trailmarks HQ @trailmarkshq.com · 30/07/2026
A sneaky little drip from the soon to be released Trailmarks mobile app! 🌎 No Ads 🌍 No Tracking 🌏 Fully playable offline 🤯 1000 cities and 99.000 questions #games #ios #apps #geograpy #trivia #gamedev #indiedev
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Trailmarks HQ @trailmarkshq.com · 18/07/2026
Oh we're on the Apple App store btw 😱
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Adding clouds and elevated mountain terrain 😱 #threejs #gamedev
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Adding clouds and elevated mountain terrain 😱 #threejs #gamedev
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Adding animated clouds to Trailmarks. This turned out better than I expected tbh. (Video has the clouds sped up 20x). #threejs
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Trailmarks HQ @trailmarkshq.com · 02/07/2026
Let us be the first to clarify: We did not suddenly start making Walking Dead brawlers. This is someone else. (Should we have made a travel + trivia + zombie brawler game? Maybe that would be something like the final piece of the puzzle.) #indiegamedev #gamedev
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Trailmarks HQ @trailmarkshq.com · 26/06/2026
New trailer premiering in 1 minute: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV46...
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Trailer - Introducing Martha from HQ
YouTube video by Trailmarks HQ
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Working on translations for Trailmarks and I got to say I feel Cyrillic gives itself naturally to the feel of this game #gamedev
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Codetaur @vibe-coded.com · 24/05/2026
I know, I know, I have some kind of severe ascii fluid sim addiction but I'm trying to build the once-and-for-all version and god damn this shit lookin good.
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
So the last week I've been in Borneo promoting Trailmarks and I just love saying I'm in Borneo. It just sounds like the ultimate of adventure to me. Anyways, here's a video of a 3m long salt water crocodile we met in the river at night. #travel
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Really hard to watch and extremely grating how many are booing and how it's allowed to go on. Gives flashbacks to the nazi speeches on Australia Day. Can say a lot about the US, but I certainly didn't feel I needed to hide at home on 4th of July or Veteran's Day. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
abc.net.au
Welcome to Country booed at Melbourne Anzac Day service
Follow the latest headlines from ABC News, Australia's most trusted media source, with live events, audio and on-demand video from the national broadcaster.
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Trailmarks HQ @trailmarkshq.com · 18/04/2026
**The Layover Update** A new route planner feature, Steam leaderboards + various fixes. To be followed with a 75% discount starting tomorrow! We need a lot of players to fill 1000+ city leaderboards! store.steampowered.com/news/app/401...
store.steampowered.com
Trailmarks - The Layover Update - Steam News
Route planner, leaderboards, no more private jets everywhere, bug fixes
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Trailmarks HQ @trailmarkshq.com · 17/04/2026
Trailmarks Promotional World Tour Stop 1: Georgetown, Malaysia A sundowner watching the strait of Malacca turn gold at the Eastern & Orient Hotel, the old hangout of Herman Hesse, Rudyard Kipling and Graham Greene.
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Trailmarks HQ @trailmarkshq.com · 15/04/2026
Got some Trailmarks merch delivered :D
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Trying out showing potential flight routes in Trailmarks. Not entirely there yet, but feels interesting #gamedev
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I’ve noticed this indeed. (He’s talking about you, btw)
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Trailmarks HQ @trailmarkshq.com · 04/04/2026
Oh! Our web page is live! Or rather, we posted a memo from Martha (HQ). trailmarkshq.com #games
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Trailmarks HQ
TrailmarksHQ — Official communications from Trailmarks headquarters.
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
A Trailmarks playthrough in cosplay!? 😅
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I'm trying to rebrand mansplaining to *dadvice* at the moment.
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Trying to find a block list for ai-haters brought up some niche stuff. WHO would hate on Lorelai?!
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Trailmarks HQ @trailmarkshq.com · 10/03/2026
That's it, that's the trailer! #gaming #edusky #travel
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Free Wifi fee? 🤨 (From reddit)
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
VERY serious Trailmarks playthrough
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Jonathan Stephens @jonathanstephens.us · 18/02/2026
In the hard deadline, release prep for the last round of refinements into a game! It's a really fun geography quiz card game where you travel around the world as a fact-checker, answering questions and learning along the way! You can check it out here: store.steampowered.com/app/4015290/...
store.steampowered.com
Trailmarks on Steam
Inspired by Carmen Sandiego, Trailmarks is a globe-spanning strategy adventure where you circumnavigate the planet as a travel guide fact-checker. Plan routes across 1,200 cities, answer 120,000+ triv...
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
BlueSky's three suggested moderation services are pretty funny. "Anti-Alf Aktion"... Nice to see they take things seriously 🙄
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I feel this is data science trauma or something, but even when making a game I somehow add a graph. #datascience
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Sheesh I published my game demo on itch.io and already after half an hours, there's 14 more new games posted?
itch.io
Download the latest indie games
itch.io is a simple way to find, download and distribute indie games online. Whether you're a developer looking to upload your game or just someone looking for something new to play itch.io has you co...
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
One Battle After Another was really excellent!
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Actual demo live on actual Steam!! store.steampowered.com/app/4015290/... #games #gamedev #indiedev #travel
store.steampowered.com
Trailmarks on Steam
Trailmarks is a globe-spanning strategy adventure about travel, fact verification, and resource management. Travel by land, sea, and air, verify trivia, trade souvenirs, and manage time, money, and mo...
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Actual demo live on actual Steam!! store.steampowered.com/app/4015290/... #games #gamedev #indiedev #travel
store.steampowered.com
Trailmarks on Steam
Trailmarks is a globe-spanning strategy adventure about travel, fact verification, and resource management. Travel by land, sea, and air, verify trivia, trade souvenirs, and manage time, money, and mo...
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Being technically correct is, technically, the only way of being correct.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
*So, then, "Claude" is a public figure and a virtuous moral actor that has a mature understanding of right and wrong *But you're still gonna shoot it in the head if it doesn't earn money for you
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Note what these people (stillonx) are doing: They are shaming people who are on X but trying out the waters on BlueSky. They are not shaming people who are fully on X. They are shaming the people who wants to move to BlueSky and have not been ready to go all-in. It's textbook wreckerism #bluesky
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Mats @travelmats.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Note what these people (stillonx) are doing: They are shaming people who are on X but trying out the waters on BlueSky. They are not shaming people who are fully on X. They are shaming the people who wants to move to BlueSky and have not been ready to go all-in. It's textbook wreckerism #bluesky
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Mollie L Patterson @mollipen.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Making an indie game? Want people to read about it in the upcoming new issue of EGM? As in, in an actual paper magazine? Pitch us at support@egmbook.com and include "Under the Radar" in the subject line. Three main criteria to keep in mind:
1. Your game isn't out already.
2. Your game is far enough along that you're comfortable providing a few screenshots to run in the magazine.
3. You're willing to answer a few questions about your game so we can quote you in the preview. Over email is fine, but a quick live demo over Zoom and short Q&A would be great.
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