Duke Skywalka: NBA 2K24 Influence!

By Stefan Curtis Jones

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Ballislife East Coast Squad member, Dazeran Jaquon “Duke Skywalka” Jones, was invited to the 2K Video games headquarters in Petaluma, Calif., on Nov. 2, 2022 to create movement seize strikes for the unreal intelligence (AI) set for use within the fashionable online game NBA 2K24, which is developed yearly by Visible Ideas Leisure.

Jones, a high-flying dunker out of Haines Metropolis, Fla., joined Ballislife in Jan. 2020 and has amassed over 300,000 followers on YouTube, Instagram, and Tik Tok. Skywalka was initially approached with the NBA 2K24 alternative by Zach Timmerman, producer of the NBA 2K Collection, after Timmerman realized NBA 2K Movement Seize Actor, Tyler Idowu, and his son have been longtime followers of Skywalka and Ballislife.

“He approached me as a result of his son is a fan,” Jones mentioned. “He really despatched me a voice memo of his son telling me how he’s an enormous fan and so I despatched one again and it made his son’s day.”

Duke Skywalka participated in a five-hour movement seize course of alongside different movement seize actors {and professional} abroad basketball gamers. The actors and ballplayers recorded a collection of easy crossovers, contact finishes, and defensive actions. He’ll return to online game manufacturing website in early 2023 to document dunks and different strikes.

The Ballislife streetball star expects to stay concerned with the 2K Video games movement seize group for future iterations of the NBA 2K collection. For now, Duke Skywalka is happy to develop the enterprise partnership and expressed deep gratitude for the supply prolonged by Timmerman and the remainder of the NBA 2K group.

“Connecting with folks results in extra alternatives; networking is the important thing factor,” Duke Skywalka mentioned.

Keep up-to-date with Skywalka’s Ballislife content material on his private social pages, the primary Ballislife YouTube channel, and the East Coast Squad YouTube channel. He will even be enjoying within the subsequent Ballislife 5 vs. 5 livestream occasion on Dec. 28, 2022 in partnership with Caffeine.