Joel Auterson

Just rolled credits on Wilmot Works It Out - perfect game, perfect ending, no notes.

Playing Chrono Trigger for the first time and delighted to find it absolutely lives up to its reputation

Lovely day for a big walk

Forever explaining the topsy-turvy land of Northern Ireland to people, where the Nationalists and Republicans are broadly on the left and the Unionists are broadly on the right

Worth it though

In the queue for the Jack White gig thinking “fuck there’s loads of ageing rockers here” and then had a terrible moment of self realisation

It’s been a horrible old grey day today but the blossoms have come out on our tree and that’s just lovely.

I’ve reached that point in the development of my game engine I’ve been dreading: I’ve got to implement a scroll pane for UI.

Hadn’t used it for a couple of years but the official Mastodon iOS app is really surprisingly great now

Had a lovely time at the Debug Awards - saw our game on a big screen, saw our game on the cover of a magazine, saw lots of lovely pals and wonderful games getting their flowers.

Your outie uses version control, even on solo projects.

This girl punished us for cheating on her by immediately vomiting up her dinner

Went to cat yoga at the cat cafe for our anniversary!

A friend got a MacBook recently and was asking for recommendations.

Ah lads it feels good to read poems in front of people again

Transatlantic Sessions, what a treat

When I was 21 and doing poetry gigs several times a week it used to drive me mad when older poets said “keep writing!”.

So I finished Baldur’s Gate 1, and while it’s a fascinating artefact of its time it’s not actually all that enjoyable.

Went up to Leicester yesterday to do a tasting for the food for our wedding and now I’m somehow even more excited.

She has other ideas

People fear he’s writing poems again

Holy shit Severance rules

I’ve been recently playing Dragon Age Inquisition, maxed out at 4K with Auto HDR, and I’m increasingly of the belief that games simply do not need to look any better than this.

Nvidia deserve to lose their market share for this “AI 4x frame generation” nonsense when “sloptimization” was RIGHT THERE

A little update from me and Bearwaves: our as-yet-unannounced Game Two is well underway, and while we’re not ready to show anything publicly yet we’ve been testing with friends and family and the response has been really positive.

My anxiety checklist: am I hungry?

Just watched all the LOTR extendeds in one day so that’s me emotionally restabilised for the next wee while

Must be using LinkedIn wrong - every time I see one of those “why game X was destined to fail” posts I click into the profile of the post author and cannot for the life of me find any record of the games they’ve shipped?

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

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.

Brought the in-laws to visit The Good Place (Ireland)

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.

Happy to have experienced the best Bluey episode, Sleepytime

Coming to the disappointing conclusion that developing games for Android without any Java at all is impractical enough as to be impossible.

I know we didn’t mark the occasion really but last month was a decade since we started Boomerang Club.

My granny made this tapestry and I think in another life she could have been a kickass pixel artist

Back home for Christmas.

Lucy got me this pegboard for Christmas and I bloody LOVE it

Having to use Perforce is a form of slow torture.

Some morning game dev with my helper

Didn’t stay up for TGAs but think it says a lot that in catching up I saw an article about every game announcement and trailer and only found out who won game of the year on Bluesky

We fixed this in Bridgy yesterday.

A PSA: Bluesky changed their API recently so that image uploads need to include their aspect ratio, otherwise they’ll appear letterboxed (like the first image).

New sleep position unlocked

Bopped a fascist over the head with a violin then threw him off this wall, 10/10 game no notes

Baffled by how difficult it is to render a rectangle outline using a shader without pixel alignment going all wonky.

Made the longlist for Best Cuddles

New clipping. track is fuckin great

Trying to get an animation framework in place for Game 2 and struggling - some animations can happen in parallel while some need to effectively pause state updates and structuring this in a neat way is proving tricky.

Thinking about becoming a Qud sicko