Bees on lavender 2026 27/n Flying’s too much effort. Time to stretch #bees #lavender

Bees on lavender 2026 26/n (I’m back) Someone’s decided to dress up *very* yellow.. #bees #lavender

Hello London!

Bye bye Brighton!

Hello Brighton!

Hello London!

Bees on lavender 2026 25/n Bumblebee on the white. (There shall now be a brief pause for Develop) #bees #lavender

At Develop this year, there's a different presentation *every day* on "steam discoverability" (Other platform talks are available - there's one specifically about discoverability on XBox for anyone interested).

Bees on lavender 2026 23 & 24/n The white is buzzing & crowded. Sharing is caring. #bees #lavender

Bees on lavender 2026 22/n Further white-bum bumblebee action. #bees #lavender

Bees on lavender 2026 21/n White-bum bumblebee. White lavender. Matching #bees #lavender

Bees on lavender 2026 20/n Red-bum bumblebee and… something… having a nom. #bees #lavender

Bees on lavender 2026 18 & 19/n White’s out. Soft focus honey. Bonus “neither bee nor lavender”. #bees #lavender

Bees on lavender 2026 17/n Finally a not-shy red-bum :) #bees #lavender

Bees on lavender 2026 15 & 16/n Plenty of both honey & vanilla bumbles. Also a couple of red-bums, but they’re shy. #bees #lavender

Bees on lavender 2026 14/n Contender for “best not-a-bee” of the year: Hummingbird hawk moth. #bees #lavender

Bees on lavender 2026 13/n First carder bumblebee of the year #bees #lavender

Bees on lavender 2026 12/n Honeybee with her face dunked in lavender #bees #lavender

Black & white cat on the prowl, up the drive, along the path, down the road. Not seen such in quite a while.

Bees on lavender 2026 11/n In-focus, in-flight bumble :) Yay! #bees #lavender

Bees on lavender 2026 10/n (Couple of vanilla bumbles have shown up. Hordes of honeys) #bees #lavender

Bees on lavender 2026 9/n (The purple’s got some white flowers - The actual white’s not budded yet) #bees #lavender

Bees on lavender 2026 7&8/n (Regulars will know that this set is not always bees. And not always lavender) #bees #lavender

If only Mr Tim had access to some sort of online game store which *does* accept unflagged AI content, and could compare profits.

Featuring a a plethora of special guests, utter chaos, and video clips not seen on the night, here's the full, unedited, Digi Live Show from 2021 - just in time for the 5th anniversary! youtu.be/XtHinUsFt28?...

Honeybee. Lavender. Y’know the drill. Bees on lavender 2026 6/n (Yes, there was a single uncooperative bumble, so here’s a honey) #bees #lavender

Bees on lavender 2026 5/n (It’s going to be mostly honeybees for a bit. The bumbles tend to run later) #bees #lavender

Bees on lavender 2026 3&4/n 3’s out-of-focus, but the whole point of this is to take an annual sort-of-census, and this is a red-bum, and in flight, so it makes the cut. 4: Bonus in-focus honeybee #bees #lavender

(Mostly) Bees on (mostly) lavender 2026 2/n #bees #lavender

It bee that time of year again... (Mostly) Bees on (mostly) lavender 2026 1/n #bees #lavender

(LRT - Involved with six of those games in various "coded / ported / designed" roles. Can lay claim to two of the characters (albeit in the same game, which feels like cheating))

NEW VIDEO! This is a look at all the Codemasters Cartoon Character Games that AREN'T Dizzy. There's the likes of Seymour! CJ the Elephant! Big Nose the Caveman! Little Puff! Slightly Magic and MANY more. Enjoy and please share :) youtu.be/PXGgIJ2BY9E

Unity literally chose to name their AI manager "MCP", after the AI villain in TRON. #unity #ai #tron

Having looked up the recent gaming controversy, I'm quite liking that the most important feature of NVidia's "Move the brightness & contrast sliders up 50% & make all strong female leads look like Barbie" tech is that "you can turn it off".

(It's a terrible game, but at least now folks can play the whole thing :) )

Thanks to @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social & his 3" disk recovery skills, some emulator shots of things that have not been seen for 36 years... The "B" side, which was missing on the release version, of Amstrad 6128 NY Warriors. (Will get these to @gamesthatwerent.com / @xyphoe.bsky.social in a bit)

R. Fred Williams' old 3" game development disks, batch 2, have now been archived. These are on their way back to Fred so he can go through the contents. They contain a mix of development source code, utilities and binary game images. The big find so far is the lost side 'B' of Amstrad NY Warriors.

<Bowl-of-petunias line> Grief, the state of this industry… www.gamesindustry.biz/uk-co-develo... I’m not in the “at risk” list this time, but a lot of good folks are.

By the time I got involved with Speccy games ('89), the joystick-FUDLR (fire up down left right) reading code was copy-pasted from game to game in pure faith, because we didn't actually have the hardware to test it. I'd guess 3 was "Fuller".

(It's under "Settings->Languages", BTW)

Ensnowment 2026 - 5 inches Friday morning, today all sorts of compacted ice rather than actual thawing/slush.

2026 beginning of the year cleaning up files on my PC and found this one a friend send me when working on some code. Every developer can relate. #solodev #indiedev #development

Ugh, there are far too many people (including videogames people who should know better) conflating AI (good fun thing) with GenAI (evil bad art stealy thing) So let's recap the story (which I'm pretty sure I've told to lots of youse already) about Fuzion Frenzy's fireworks game.

The actual report that folks are posting GI.Biz's take on:- www.bcg.com/publications... Right at the start, its first "key takeaway": "Generative AI will power innovative gaming experiences." Whch suggests that they don't know what GenAI is.

Looks like pad 31 at Baikonur (Where Soyuz/Progress rockets head off to the ISS from these days) has had a bit of a catastrophe. (Okay, Russia = baddies at the mo, but space cooperation's one of the remaining good things)

Departing collegue's asked for a boost for one of his Lego Ideas things, & it'd be rude not to give it a vote, really... beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

For whatever reason, the Switch asked for a 2FA code, and made me realise "perhaps I'd better move those onto the new phone" (I'd only shifted the work one when I got it). Interesting pair of emails from the other place (I guess the guys who knew how to find-in-files were among those let go)

Day in Cambride at @computinghistory.org.uk 's gaming event - Included a nice natter with @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social & @breakintoprogram.co.uk about 3" disk recovery, Tatung Einstein as a dev machine, and the general 1990's Manchester dev scene :)

Fixed now! But... (a) Um... How *long* has this "symmetrical with a teensy ridge on one side" dial been set to around 9 (niche settings like sportswear) rather than around 1 (whites, coloureds)? (b) Who designs this stuff and never thinks "make it pointy at one end, and maybe make the ridge black?

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".