When I booted this up I got asked what colour clothes I was wearing on the 3rd of July in, I assume, 2007, and I GOT IT RIGHT STILL YOUNG BABYEE
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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Got Arch running on a laptop with a modern Intel chip and I think the battery life might be even better than my Macbook, presumably because it’s Linux and the only things running are the things I asked it to run.
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Saw Evening All Afternoon at the Donmar there and thought it was really good
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Had a lovely time at the V&A event. I saw some cool things, did a LARP in a toilet queue, saw some pals, met some nice new people and bellowed Glassdoor reviews to the tune of I Dreamed A Dream at Robot Karaoke
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Looking forward to the games event at the V&A this evening - if any mutuals are going, say hi!
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On my way home from the launch of METAL GEAR SONNETS, a poetry collection by Laurie Eaves about, well, you can guess. Just fantastic. It’s out now with Broken Sleep, get it.
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My first attempt at carrot cake! It sure ain’t pretty but it tastes pretty good
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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
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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