R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Humans created all the designs, and AI served as a supporting tool." I suspect "designs" here is what I would call "prompts" 112
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie that came out when you were 20 years old? 020
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Bees on lavender 2026 31/n Red bum bumblebee on the last of the white. Think I’ll call it here for this year. #bees #lavender 000
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Bees on lavender 2026 30/n Bumblebees on the white. Their work here is almost done. #bees #lavender 010
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 26/07/2026@ashens.bsky.social @yesterzine.bsky.social Re 12 July stream, I've dug out the identical-bar-the-presenter Glover reviews from "Movies Games & Videos" & "Cybernet", and thrown them here:- www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/aczmo...dropbox.comDropbox 110
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Bees on lavender 2026 29/n Red bum, white lavender #bees #lavender 000
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Bees on lavender 2026 28/n Pair harvesting the white (Purple’s pretty much deserted now) #bees #lavender 010
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Bees on lavender 2026 27/n Flying’s too much effort. Time to stretch #bees #lavender 000
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Bees on lavender 2026 26/n (I’m back) Someone’s decided to dress up *very* yellow.. #bees #lavender 010
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Bees on lavender 2026 25/n Bumblebee on the white. (There shall now be a brief pause for Develop) #bees #lavender 000
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 11/07/2026At 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). 110
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Bees on lavender 2026 23 & 24/n The white is buzzing & crowded. Sharing is caring. #bees #lavender 010
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Bees on lavender 2026 22/n Further white-bum bumblebee action. #bees #lavender 000
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Bees on lavender 2026 21/n White-bum bumblebee. White lavender. Matching #bees #lavender 030
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Bees on lavender 2026 20/n Red-bum bumblebee and… something… having a nom. #bees #lavender 041
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Bees on lavender 2026 18 & 19/n White’s out. Soft focus honey. Bonus “neither bee nor lavender”. #bees #lavender 010
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Bees on lavender 2026 17/n Finally a not-shy red-bum :) #bees #lavender 000
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Bees on lavender 2026 15 & 16/n Plenty of both honey & vanilla bumbles. Also a couple of red-bums, but they’re shy. #bees #lavender 000
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Bees on lavender 2026 14/n Contender for “best not-a-bee” of the year: Hummingbird hawk moth. #bees #lavender 020
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Bees on lavender 2026 13/n First carder bumblebee of the year #bees #lavender 000
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Bees on lavender 2026 12/n Honeybee with her face dunked in lavender #bees #lavender 000
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Black & white cat on the prowl, up the drive, along the path, down the road. Not seen such in quite a while. 000
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Bees on lavender 2026 11/n In-focus, in-flight bumble :) Yay! #bees #lavender 000
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Bees on lavender 2026 10/n (Couple of vanilla bumbles have shown up. Hordes of honeys) #bees #lavender 000
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Bees on lavender 2026 9/n (The purple’s got some white flowers - The actual white’s not budded yet) #bees #lavender 010
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Bees on lavender 2026 7&8/n (Regulars will know that this set is not always bees. And not always lavender) #bees #lavender 010
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 25/06/2026If only Mr Tim had access to some sort of online game store which *does* accept unflagged AI content, and could compare profits. 000
Reposted by R. Fred WilliamsMrBiffo @mrbiffo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Featuring 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?...youtu.beDIGITISER LIVE at Harrow Arts Centre - 2021, featuring Mr Biffo's Found Footage and CheapshowYouTube video by Digitiser 23413
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 24/06/2026 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 000
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 23/06/2026 Bees on lavender 2026 5/n (It’s going to be mostly honeybees for a bit. The bumbles tend to run later) #bees #lavender 000
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Bees 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 010
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 21/06/2026(Mostly) Bees on (mostly) lavender 2026 2/n #bees #lavender 010
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 20/06/2026It bee that time of year again... (Mostly) Bees on (mostly) lavender 2026 1/n #bees #lavender 031
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 23/05/2026(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)) 020
Reposted by R. Fred WilliamsKim Justice @kimjustice.bsky.social · 22/05/2026NEW 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/PXGgIJ2BY9Eyoutu.beThe Codemasters Cartoon Game Characters Who AREN'T Dizzy | Kim JusticeYouTube video by Kim Justice 14623
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Unity literally chose to name their AI manager "MCP", after the AI villain in TRON. #unity #ai #tron 000
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Having 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". 120
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 15/03/2026(It's a terrible game, but at least now folks can play the whole thing :) ) 3175
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Thanks 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) 45016
Reposted by R. Fred WilliamsKevin Edwards ( Retro game developer ) @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social · 19/02/2026R. 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. 1609
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 05/02/2026<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.gamesindustry.bizUK co-development house Sumo Digital announces redundanciesTencent-owned firm says it has to "adapt to ongoing instability" following recent pivot to co-development 030
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 02/02/2026By 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". 060
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Ensnowment 2026 - 5 inches Friday morning, today all sorts of compacted ice rather than actual thawing/slush. 010
Reposted by R. Fred WilliamsGeert Verhoeff @gjverhoeff.bsky.social · 05/01/20262026 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 371917376
R. Fred Williams @rfredw.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Ugh, 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. 1123
