It’s been quite a day
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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My favourite command-line tools
A friend got a MacBook recently and was asking for recommendations. I found myself wishing I had a list of all my default-installed command-line tools, so that’s what this is.
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The games of 2024
I wrote this time last year that I hoped 2024 was a better year for the games industry - this has turned out not to be the case.
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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
Recent
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Putting haptics into our game (and engine) and while it definitely makes the game feel better it does create a gap between the iOS and Android versions - iOS haptics are so much more advanced and flexible. I think Android 16 is supposed to address this. 🤞
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Added a tiny little bit of controller rumble to our new game and it’s amazing how transformative it is. Is this what they meant by vibe programming? Don’t answer that.
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Think I might have caught the mechanical keyboard bug alas
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I asked WhatsApp’s new AI how to get rid of it and it hallucinated a setting that doesn’t exist, a brave new world
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Dream come true
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Beededededoop. Sam. It’s Die Hardman. If you eat too much banana bread too quickly, you’ll get a status called “feeling a bit sick”. You can clear it by waiting, going out for a walk, or having a coffee. Give it some time before having more banana bread.
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Yeah that’ll do
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Let’s go
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Upgraded my monitor to a 4K OLED and so obviously I’ve been playing the ideal game for the format: Assassin’s Creed Odyssey