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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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St Vincent at Somerset House
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Every time I try to follow an American recipe it’s like “use a cup of milk, three bushels of flour, two cubits of sugar and eleven hands of egg”
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The world is full of horrors and the games industry is no respite but I am going to allow myself to be a little bit excited about a new Destiny expansion today.
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Finally got to the bottom of weird Linux ethernet issue - seems from Linux kernel 6.9 onwards some kind of power saving setting is turned on by default and this breaks it entirely. Putting this here so I can find it when I inevitably run into this again.
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The annual Develop karaoke was a beautiful gorgeous thing. Look at all this wonderful faces. I love them
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Cold brew season is here again
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My Switch 2 arrived from Argos with the seals on the actual product box already cut. Presumably warehouse workers taking photos of the Mario Kart code for resale. Thankfully redeems ok and the console itself looks untouched!
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Launch day of the Switch 1, back in the old Improbable office. Different era man. I’ll be unboxing the Switch 2 in my house with my cat.
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Made terrariums. Terraria?
