In the theme song for “Bob the Builder”, Bob and his colleagues are described as “working all day til the sun goes down”; a clear violation of the EU Working Time Directive
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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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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On not taking it personally
How do we navigate caring about our work when that work is, by nature,
disposable?
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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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Finished Bad Sisters S2 - the first season went from dark comedy to thriller, the new one starts at thriller and just keeps tightening the screws. Nail biting stuff
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Brought the in-laws to visit The Good Place (Ireland)
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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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Happy to have experienced the best Bluey episode, Sleepytime
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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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I know we didn’t mark the occasion really but last month was a decade since we started Boomerang Club. If you know, you know. If you don’t, you missed out
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My granny made this tapestry and I think in another life she could have been a kickass pixel artist
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Back home for Christmas. Little traditions.
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Lucy got me this pegboard for Christmas and I bloody LOVE it
