Duncan McPherson

I make games. You might have played some of them. He/him. 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦

[Duncan McPherson @8bitavatar]

@CanadianPolling Wow. These people are fuckin' weirdos.

[LAIKA @LAIKAStudios]

Something ancient is taking shape… #Wildwood #SDCC

[Duncan McPherson @8bitavatar]

@_AlexHirsch @gusgummypanda ₩ⱧɆ₦ ɎØɄ'ⱤɆ ⱧɆⱤɆ, ɎØɄ'ⱤɆ ₣₳₥łⱠɎ.

[Duncan McPherson @8bitavatar]

@glitch_prod This is such a brilliant show. And the latest episode is amazing.

[Duncan McPherson @8bitavatar]

@Schwarzenegger I lost 90 lbs. over 18 months using that exact approach. It's not flashy, but it works. Show up for yourself every day, do what you can, track what you do. It works!

The hardest part is changing how you see yourself and being kind to yourself on the journey. It can be done!

[Duncan McPherson @8bitavatar]

@oncloud_e My daughter had a similar journey, and she's come to a lot of the same realizations that you have. Thanks for sharing. It's important and validating to understand other lived experiences, when so much of the online discourse is flooded by a small number of loud jerks.

[Matthew Bromberg @MBromberg]

Folks. Can I explain something about world models? Seems like today might be a good day for that.

Advances in large-scale “world models” — whether developed by partners like Google or others — materially expand the frontier of interactive content creation. These models can generate high-quality, interactive, video-like experiences from natural language or minimal input.

Today, they are primarily editable through prompting, which limits the level of determinism and precision required for production-grade game mechanics. As a result, their outputs remain probabilistic and non-deterministic, making them unsuitable on their own for games that require consistent, repeatable player experiences.

Rather than viewing this as a risk, we see it as a powerful accelerator. Video-based generation is exactly the type of input our Agentic AI workflows are designed to leverage—translating rich visual output into initial game scenes that can then be refined with the deterministic systems Unity developers use today. Our agents already generate high-quality scenes from static video. Interactive, camera-controllable video from world models would further enhance this pipeline and materially improve the fidelity and speed of early-stage content creation. We believe this represents a meaningful step forward for AI-driven development across the industry.

Unity’s role is to operationalize these advances. Outputs from world models are ingested into Unity’s real-time engine, where they are converted into structured, deterministic, and fully controllable simulations. Within Unity, creators define physics, gameplay logic, networking, monetization, and live-operations systems to ensure consistent behavior across devices and sessions.

This combination enables developers to move faster from concept to scalable product: AI accelerates environment and asset generation, while Unity provides the execution layer that transforms generated content into reliable, monetizable experiences.

As a result, world models expand content supply and reduce development friction, while Unity remains the system of record for runtime, distribution, and long-term operations. This dynamic broadens Unity’s addressable market and reinforces its central role in the interactive ecosystem.

[Duncan McPherson @8bitavatar]

@careroin I'm sorry. That sounds like it's both heartbreaking and frustrating to go through. I hope he ends up listening to you.

[Duncan McPherson @8bitavatar]

@XPPEN

[Duncan McPherson @8bitavatar]

@MichaelDavis_6 In fact, it's why my own initiatory practices went on hold for so long. What good is trying to prove "attainment" of something, if I don't want to be in my own head to begin with?

[Duncan McPherson @8bitavatar]

@MichaelDavis_6 It's both some of the most useful and some of the most difficult advice to put into practice!

[Denver Jackson 🍥 @djaxx]

My solo 2hr animated feature film is now available on digital for rent for a limited time. Help support indie animation!

Find it here:
https://t.co/W5LpkTTKSe

[Duncan McPherson @8bitavatar]

@glitch_prod The KoG pilot was great! Glitch, you are producing some amazing shows with some brilliant teams. Thank you!🙏

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

We have to know our history so that we're not destined to repeat it

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

RFK Jr. went on national TV and spouted egregious, dangerous falsehoods about vaccines. As a parent and infectious diseases doctor, I couldn't stay silent. @FoxNews might not fact-check him, but I will. I've reviewed the trials. I've catalogued them. I have receipts. 🧵

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

Stop what you’re doing and watch this immediately.

Canadian doctors returned from Gaza and are sharing what they witnessed and lived.

They are demanding action from Mark Carney.

Their testimony is our failure.

[Duncan McPherson @8bitavatar]

Cure cancer and geoengineer this planet first. Those are two of the pre-reqs to any extraterrestrial colonization effort.

If we can't solve problems like that here (easy mode), we won't be able to solve those issues on the moon, Mars, or anywhere else.

[Duncan McPherson @8bitavatar]

This is so completely asinine. Talking about an event over a billion years in the future as though it's an imminent threat.

That's 5000x longer than humans (homo sapiens) have existed.

Leave it to a billionaire to not know the actual size of a billion anything.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Musk: And eventually, all life on Earth will be destroyed by the sun. It's gradually expanding, we do at some point have to be multi-planetary civilization because Earth will be incinerated…

[Duncan McPherson @8bitavatar]

@willsommer Russell Brand must have taken off his amulet.

https://t.co/jcJqUNcn9V

[Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @MaliceDaFirenze]

gang I'm gonna need y'all to make this shit go viral one more time for the sake of the kickstarter campaign to reach the Falcon Hunting stretch goal. Don't make me talk about pronouns again