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 run a spoken word night called Boomerang Club, am part of the Southbank New Poets Collective for 2021/22 and am a former Barbican Young Poet. I work in carbon emission reduction at a company called Emitwise.
Hi, welcome to my website.
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I use an app called Daylio as a diary and a mood tracker. It’s really good! I recommend it.
I also use an app called Habit to track things I want to do every day, like “stay off social media” or “work on a project”.
I’m genuinely impressed that 2021 managed to be a generally worse year than 2020, for a variety of fun reasons. It had some high highs but also some very low lows. It was a year in which I mostly quit social media (a positive change!), which means I was out of The Games Discourse for the last third. Do I miss it? Like hell.
2020 has been hot garbage. It has had very few redeeming factors and I am not appreciative of it at all.
Some great games, though.
After six months and £11m of public money wasted, England and Wales finally have a functional contact tracing app for COVID-19. You can download it now - as long as your phone is new enough. Why this limitation?
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Things I’ve made
- – Bearwaves' first game, a free-to-play strategy board game for mobile and PC
- – My first poetry book, published in 2017 by Bad Betty Press
- – To investigate ways for poetry to be presented on the web
- – Interactive JavaScript notebooks with clever graphing
- – Reshape JavaScript objects to match a schema
- – A library wrapper which attempts to reshape the input to functions
- – A game engine for the terminal, written in Go
- – A Chrome extension for those 'risky clicks'
- – A Reddit bot that pretends to be DJ Khaled – Relevant blog
- – Ditto, but for Tinder – Relevant blog