Joel Auterson

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.

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Dec 12, 2025 · 11:09:50 ·
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Random discovery I’ll share in case it helps a future traveller (or future me): the native C++ SDK for Google Play Games hasn’t been updated to support 16KB page size, making it now functionally unusable. You need to JNI bridge across to the Java SDK.

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Dec 29, 2024 · 00:14:03 ·
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Coming to the disappointing conclusion that developing games for Android without any Java at all is impractical enough as to be impossible.

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· dev, android Packaging Android NDK APKs without Gradle

I struggled recently to work out how to build an APK out of a native Android app without using Gradle.

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