The harness was not a hit
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 carbon emission reduction at a company called Emitwise.
Hi, welcome to my website.
Latest blog posts
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You gotta do your prerolls
My pal Zach has this ritual when we play D&D - before we start, he rolls the D20. Over and over and over again.
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The games of 2023
As many have written, 2023 was a great year for the games themselves and a pretty dire year for the industry and the people working in it. Let’s hope things improve in 2024.
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Bluesky backfeed support in Bridgy
My “weekend project” of implementing Bluesky support into Bridgy is finally, several months later, complete! Ish.
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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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Northern Lights visible from Nottingham!
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It’s sensational, having such a good time with it
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It only took me four years but I did it!
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Animal Well is 33MB, holy shit
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Bloodborne is a cosy game, I will not elaborate
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Been playing with shader support in Growl - shaders can now be edited in realtime, and have built in uniforms like resolution and time. Goal is to be able to paste in whatever from Shadertoy and have it work!
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Was not prepared for how much fun the Netflix One Piece adaptation is. It’s ace.
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We look the same in the mornings
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Not AC though, never that