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!
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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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?
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Watching it like a hawk waiting for season 2 to drop
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Went to get the microsuction done and it didn’t fully work, my ears are too powerful, so next is macrosuction. Fetch the Henry
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Bonus Jezza
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And Kneecap, obviously
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WITCH, Nadine Shah, Fcukers and CMAT at Wide Awake
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Our next game is a Zach-like (Gage rather than -tronics)
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First game of Feud in a while, a new opponent, let’s see how I do. The Feud community likes to make fun of me for how bad I am at my own game so I am not optimistic.
