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Joel Auterson

joel@otter.garden

<p>I’m a game developer, poet and software engineer in climate!</p><p>🎮 I made a game called Feud with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://otter.garden/@Bearwaves" class="u-url mention">@<span>Bearwaves</span></a></span>.<br />🌐 I love the <a href="https://otter.garden/tags/IndieWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a>. Many of these posts are POSSE&#39;d from joelotter.com.<br />⚙️ Making my own game engine called Growl.<br />👾 Making weird poem-art-games with Rare Mammals.</p>

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    One year ago today!

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    I think it’s important to call this shit out and call it what it is but it does make me a little sad that this “worthless slop” gets infinitely more press coverage than any game I’ve ever made. https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/steam-week-in-review-steam-next-fest-has-over-8-000-demos-as-worthless-vibe-coded-slop-levels-up/

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    Mountain Goats at Hackney Church

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    RE: https://otter.garden/@joel/117430625038852546 So not only is this annoying for, like, aesthetic reasons, two pretty load bearing parts of how I interact with the IndieWeb (indie auth, quill) have stopped working as of yesterday. The former&amp;#39;s replacement, IndieKey, doesn&amp;#39;t work at all. Granted these are mostly PHP apps so I don&amp;#39;t know how they&amp;#39;re affected by the recent CVE but it&amp;#39;s hard not to draw a direct line from Claude being introduced to these...

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    Foy Vance with Niall McCabe, Bonnie Bishop and Peter J McCauley at Shepherd’s Bush

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    Rolled credits on The Incident at Galley House, absolute banger

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    I thought this piece from @collinsworth was a great read. https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/productivity

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    Well, here I am in the credits of Gears of War: E-Day. Worked on this for the last couple years along with my fellow companions at Companion Group.

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    Another banger Algorhythms #algorhythms

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    Cat’s been off her food recently. Won’t eat her dinner unless we spoon feed her on the sofa, won’t touch dry food at all. Vet diagnosis: fussy little madam

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    Had to take a break from working on Game 3 to do some maintenance on Game 1

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    Seems even the IndieWeb community has fully bought into AI slop, the one place I really thought never would. Like, wasn’t this the point? To make our own things?

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    I’ve now read all of Earthsea. Don’t think a fantasy series has affected me so deeply since I first read Tolkien or Pratchett. And now there is no more! I am bereft

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    Happy eclipse day to everyone except the guy who brought his DJ decks to the once in a lifetime celestial event

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    In today’s Japanese lesson I learned about たこさんウィンナー (Mr Octopus Wiener) and I have to share it with you

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    I need to do a little redesign on my blog so that posts don’t absolutely HAVE to have images, because it means I often don’t write because a big “proper” post feels like a huge undertaking and I could be writing things bigger than notes, smaller than posts

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    I’m a man of culture, you know

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    Games just look better on 4:3 and we have regressed as a society since we started pretending otherwise

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    Read a blog recently where the author said “LLMs use fewer tokens for input than output so they’re cheap if you don’t use them to generate code” which does kind of ignore that “reasoning” involves models generating text to talk to themselves ad nauseum

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    Such a joy to share a stage with this lot again. Boomerang forever

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    Tepid programmer take: git hooks always suck. They are never good. I am not a child

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    Fucked it lads

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    Geese at Troxy

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    Loved celebrating my pal Tice Cin’s book launch, go read Safe Spaces!

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    I kind of crashed out this week. Generative AI has made a lot of my hobbies and creative endeavours feel pointless, when I&amp;#39;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. https://www.joelotter.com/posts/2026/09/make-it-anyway/

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    Finally made a cake where I didn’t screw up the icing!

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    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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    One problem with living in the big city is all the nosy passers by

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    The Olllam at Hackney Church, class gig. Been a fan since before I moved to London, finally got to see them play

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    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