Our girl utterly transfixed by Cat TV today
Joel Auterson
Hello! My name's Joel and I'm a software developer. No, not that one.
I run a tiny indie game studio called Bearwaves. I'm also a published poet.
I'm part of the Rare Mammals collective, and am an alumnus of Southbank New Poets and Barbican Young Poets. I work in carbon emission reduction at a company called Emitwise.
Hi, welcome to my website.
Latest blog posts
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Bluesky backfeed support in Bridgy
My “weekend project” of implementing Bluesky support into Bridgy is finally, several months later, complete! Ish.
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Using Vim for writing
I do most of my daily work in Vim, and by this point I find it quite hard to use anything else, but for writing that isn’t code (or, let’s be real, mostly YAML these days) it could be a lot better.
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Turns out immersive theatre isn’t video games
I went to see Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City the other night. In the bar on the way in, I confidently said to my partner, “immersive theatre is video games”.
It isn’t.
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Some things I’ve made
- Feud – Bearwaves’ first game, a free-to-play strategy board game for mobile and PC
- Unremember – My first poetry book, published in 2017 by Bad Betty Press
- A LAKE IN AMERICA – A game-poem made in collaboration with Antosh Wojcik
- Growl – A lightweight game development framework, written in modern C++
- eos4j – An Epic Online Services SDK wrapper for Java
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Just played a tiny prototype of what might well become the next Bearwaves game and I am very energised.
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I’ve lost two entire days of work to Terraform lockfile nonsense
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David Cameron to be Foreign Secretary - despite not being an MP. Nobody voted for him. They’ll have to make him a Lord. The government can literally just put whoever they want in the cabinet with no real consequences. I know “the Lords is anti-democratic” is hardly a hot take but Fucking Hell
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Good morning!
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I think Embracer should rename as they have fully moved into their Extinguisher phase
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Oh hey the fire worked
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When I worked in the games industry I remember being told the average tenure was six years and thinking that was crazy low. I lasted…five and a half years.
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Bluesky backfeed support in Bridgy
My “weekend project” of implementing Bluesky support into Bridgy is finally, several months later, complete! Ish.