Think that’s a new record for the amount of time it’s taken me to get a response to a GitHub issue
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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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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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
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Thank you! No unfortunately not, I did apply years ago and got rejected, I’ll need to try again at some point.
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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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That’s my WIFE
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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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Another fab Algorhthyms, loved the owl theme even if it was slightly frightening
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This creature spent 25 minutes yelling at her fishy toy while I was trying to do my Japanese lesson today
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This can only end well
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Listening to The Veils’ 2016 album Total Depravity and reminded that El-P has not put a foot wrong musically ever
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Astro Bloc and Talisk at Metronome in Nottingham. Just fantastic.
