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Joel Auterson | DWG out now!

@joelotter.com
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Irish game dev, poet, cat dad. I make games at @bearwaves.com, maintain the eos4j library and the Growl game engine! he/him 🦣 otter.garden/@joel 🌐 www.joelotter.com

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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 29/09/2026
I thought this piece from @collinsworth.dev was a great read. joshcollinsworth.com/blog/product...
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LLMs and performative productivity
It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we might be sacrificing in return.
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 29/09/2026
My buddy Shad's camera app is out! If you have an iPhone definitely check it out www.shad.design/musings/unca...
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building uncamera — shad.design
a camera app for analogue aficionados.
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orchidlalala.bsky.social @orchidlalala.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 27/09/2026
Rolled credits on The Incident at Galley House, absolute banger
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 26/09/2026
Made a rose and cardamom and pistachio cake for Lucy’s birthday! First time ever making a proper round cake with layers, think it turned out alright
Two layers of cakeThe cake decorated with white icing and pistachios in 33Lucy blowing out her candlesLucy with cake
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
SCP-LLM Object Class: Euclid Special Containment Procedures: SCP-LLM is stored on a single hard drive in a computer with no networking capability. This computer should be kept powered off. Under no circumstances should anyone with an MBA be allowed to interact with SCP-LLM or view its output.
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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For nearly two years, I've been investigating a pattern of ominous legal letters sent to journalists by defamation counsel representing Bobby Kotick. That investigation is finally live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...
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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press
YouTube video by People Make Games
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 24/09/2026
stop making me like macklemore please
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 23/09/2026
The Olllam at Hackney Church, class gig. Been a fan since before I moved to London, finally got to see them play
The Olllam on stageThe Olllam on stage but a bit further away and red nowRoss Ainslie and Joe DartThe Olllam
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i...
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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Manwë told me Melkor keeps harrying the Firstborn of Ilúvatar so I asked how many Elves he has and he said he just goes to Middle-Earth and invites more Elves on the Great Journey so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding the Quendi to Morgoth and then Nienna started crying.
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Bearwaves @bearwaves.com · 19/09/2026
This Week At Bearwaves, Will is in charge of the Weekly Wave www.patreon.com/BearwavesGam...
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Weekly Wave: 19th September '26 | Bearwaves
This Week At Bearwaves¹, Joel's off sunning himself in Spain, so you've got me (Will). You might know me as the one who makes the soundtrack
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 16/09/2026
fucking hell he's good at this
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 16/09/2026
I was denied a nintendo developer license last week
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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran has pulled out of his tour, triggering a by-election
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 16/09/2026
One problem with living in the big city is all the nosy passers by
A black and white cat staring through our windowA different black and white kitten staring through our window
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 15/09/2026
didn't think i could love Beoga more
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My "I am not complicit" statement has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my statement ass post
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 13/09/2026
Rolled credits on Denshattack! - what a joyous spectacle that game is. Maybe a little tiny bit too long but I had a lovely time and I’m a little sad it’s over.
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 12/09/2026
Finally made a cake where I didn’t screw up the icing!
A carrot cake sitting on a wire rack. The icing looks good and fluffy
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 12/09/2026
shit
a screenshot of Hacker News. My blog post is at the top
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 11/09/2026
I kind of crashed out this week. Generative AI has made a lot of my hobbies and creative endeavours feel pointless, when I'm not in a good headspace. I had a good conversation with a friend that helped, so I wrote about it, so I can read it when it happens again. www.joelotter.com/posts/2026/0...
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Fuck it, make it anyway
Carrying on in the face of creative devaluation.
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 11/09/2026
I kind of crashed out this week. Generative AI has made a lot of my hobbies and creative endeavours feel pointless, when I'm not in a good headspace. I had a good conversation with a friend that helped, so I wrote about it, so I can read it when it happens again. www.joelotter.com/posts/2026/0...
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Fuck it, make it anyway
Carrying on in the face of creative devaluation.
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 10/09/2026
Loved celebrating my pal Tice Cin’s book launch, go read Safe Spaces!
A big chocolate cake with miniature books on topTice with her cakeA selfie of me and Tice with a copy of Safe Spaces
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/09/2026
Absolutely fascinating watching the confusion in England as to why masked men are allowed to march wherever they want and intimidate whoever they feel like while the police and politicians do nothing. *waves from Northern Ireland*
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 09/09/2026
Bro this new Siri Rewind thing is horrifying. Anyone wearing an Apple Watch could be recording you? Are they announcing pervert glasses too
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 09/09/2026
Horizon Forbidden West (2022)
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 08/09/2026
Hey, glisten!
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 08/09/2026
Might pack it in tbh
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 07/09/2026
it is shockingly hard to buy a pestle without a mortar lemme tell ya
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Bearwaves @bearwaves.com · 05/09/2026
Our latest weekly newsletter is here! This week it's faux-3D rendering and some music moodboarding. Free to read on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/BearwavesGam...
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Weekly Wave: 5th September '26 | Bearwaves
Hello, welcome to another issue of our weekly newsletter! This week we've been hard at work on our prototyping for our various ideas for Gam
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 04/09/2026
Got some little objects on the grid now with proper z ordering!
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 05/09/2026
Prob a bad idea but I made a tiktok account, gonna try and make some wee game dev videos on there, drop us a follow if you like? God but this is a confusingly made app www.tiktok.com/@joelotter.com
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 04/09/2026
Got some little objects on the grid now with proper z ordering!
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 04/09/2026
Is the thing they found Daniel Vávra's tweets
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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Rewatching the Return of the King and god, this scene still gets me so emotional
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 03/09/2026
Growl is a 2D game engine but I got to thinking, how hard would it be to sort of approximate fake 3D, similar to how games used to do it, while staying in an orthographic projection? Turns out for this simple example it's not that hard!
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 03/09/2026
Growl is a 2D game engine but I got to thinking, how hard would it be to sort of approximate fake 3D, similar to how games used to do it, while staying in an orthographic projection? Turns out for this simple example it's not that hard!
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 03/09/2026
very funny this came out during Reform conference
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Anna Hollinrake 🌤️ @annahollinrake.com · 03/09/2026
Looking for someone who can do rigging and animation for a some ad-hoc work on Crescent County! If you are that person, or know of that person, please reply or DM me 🙏
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 02/09/2026
Geese at Troxy
Geese on stageGeese on stage with the crowd in the foregroundGeese with spotlight
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 01/09/2026
With me for 33 years last week because the best DWG player in the world is, in fact, my mum
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 30/08/2026
Fucked it lads
Some very bad cookies. They look like they’ve melted. Didn’t put enough flour in
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Bearwaves @bearwaves.com · 29/08/2026
Our new weekly newsletter is here! This week we're looking at shader tools. www.patreon.com/BearwavesGam...
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Weekly Wave: 29th August '26 | Bearwaves
Hello, welcome to our second weekly newsletter! We hope you're having a lovely weekend. It's raining here in London, but we've connected the
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 28/08/2026
Tepid programmer take: git hooks always suck. They are never good. I am not a child
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Cloud cover by Nakkusu
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 28/08/2026
How did it take me til today to realise hypervisor is just “supervisor but bigger”
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026
To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution
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