In the face of endless wars of aggression it’s easy and sometimes necessary to slip into self-soothing behaviours- oops, sorry, generative AI has ruined all your hobbies, get back to work
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 the games industry.
Hi, welcome to my website.
Latest blog posts
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Giving up on Elden Ring
The final boss of the Elden Ring DLC has defeated me. I’m trying to be at peace with this.
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The games of 2025
I do this every year and I need to stop writing “hope next year is better for the industry!” because it just never is. I still hope, though.
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Things I learned making a game engine
I’ve spent the last few years building my own game engine from scratch. Here are some of the things I learned.
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Some things I’ve made
- Dave’s Word Game - Bearwaves’ second game, a daily word puzzler for mobile and (eventually) PC
- Growl – A lightweight game development framework, written in modern C++
- 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
- eos4j – An Epic Online Services SDK wrapper for Java
Recent
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Feels like spring today don’t it
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Useful, sadly relevant phrase learned in this morning’s Japanese lesson: 猫ちゃんがソファーに粗相をしました
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Giving up on Elden Ring
The final boss of the Elden Ring DLC has defeated me. I’m trying to be at peace with this.
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Made it to the pub at the end of the rainbow
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Absolutely not the day for it but salvation was eventually found
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Celebrated four years together by smashing up some bowls
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We live inside a dream
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A good big stomp along the Ridgeway today
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To quantify “nothing”: DWG has been downloaded around 3,500 times on iOS. On Android it’s more like 400. Most of our sales are in the UK, where Android is fairly common vs the US. The reverse of our last game in several ways!