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🎙️#59 Why Legacy Game Studios Are About to Be Disrupted by AI

🎙️#59 Why Legacy Game Studios Are About to Be Disrupted by AI

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 From the frontlines of modern game development, Mighty Bear Games CEO Simon Davis shares a blunt reality: the traditional way of building games is collapsing — and AI-native studios are already pulling ahead. In Episode 59 of The Generalists, Simon breaks down how his team canceled Unity, rebuilt their entire pipeline, and now generates 90–95% of their code, images, animations, and audio with AI.He explains how artists with no coding background now ship fully playable mini-games in days, how Mighty Bear’s internal agentic system called Nexus blends open-source models with custom workflows, and why AI transformation keeps failing inside large enterprises while small, aligned teams accelerate. Simon also dives into why Telegram may be the next major gaming platform, how Singapore’s culture of experimentation gives his studio an edge, and why generalists — not specialists — will thrive in the next decade of game creation.It’s a rare, inside look at what an AI-native game studio actually looks like today, and why the next wave of global gaming companies won’t be built with yesterday’s tools.📖 What You’ll Learn in This EpisodeWhy Unity no longer fits an AI-accelerated development workflowHow 90–95% of Mighty Bear’s code, art, audio & animation is now AI-generatedHow Nexus integrates Stable Diffusion variants, Claude Code & custom agentsHow artists now build complete mini-games without writing codeWhy AI transformation fails in large enterprises but succeeds in small teamsWhy generalists outperform specialists inside AI-native companiesWhy Singapore outpaces Europe in AI adoptionWhy Telegram is becoming the next major gaming distribution channelHow to build a capital-efficient AI-native game studio from Southeast Asia🔔 Subscribe for more founder stories, startup wisdom & AI insightsYouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@TheGeneralistsPodcast⁠Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/2apfGY403NGr1EyTNkJfG4?si=a25c777a19854616⁠Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/the-generalists⁠👥 HostsMichael Smith Jr.: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/smittysgp/⁠Raz Kotler: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/razkotler/⁠👤 GuestSimon Davis ⁠:https://www.linkedin.com/in/simondavis/⁠🔗 Resources & Links Mentioned🚀 Companies & PlatformsMighty Bear Games: ⁠https://mightybeargames.com⁠Unity: ⁠https://unity.com⁠Stable Diffusion (open-source): ⁠https://stability.ai⁠FAL (Inference Tooling): ⁠https://fal.ai⁠Telegram: ⁠https://telegram.org⁠📚 Books MentionedChip War-Chris Miller⁠: https://www.amazon.com/Chip-War-Fight-Worlds-Critical/dp/1476717975⁠I, Claudius-Robert Graves⁠: https://www.amazon.com/I-Claudius-Robert-Graves/dp/067972477X
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