Stephen Ddungu
@Stephen_Ddungu
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Creator & solo developer of @SWORDOFSYMPHONY🎶 and @ThePurposeSaga♦️ and @0x0000000_game▫️ | 25 yr old self-taught composer/animator/game dev | revival arc.
United Kingdom
Joined July 2017
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Look mum, I made it 🥳.
Sword of Symphony is a musical action RPG by Stephen Ddungu that is now in early development. Check out the trailer:
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Time to finally bring the rich story of @SWORDOFSYMPHONY to life… 🎶.
After 17 months of hard work and trial & error, I’m now at the point where I can finally start working on the first levels of the game! 🎶. Here’s a summary of the game’s development from the beginning… 🕰.———————————. #gamedev #b3d #indiegame
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I feel like when articles like this write about me, they use it as an opportunity to write what they *want* me to say, and not what I *actually* say 🤦🏾♂️. Also Kotaku, this has nothing to do with the fact I’m black. (1/2).
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As it is now your birthday, I shall return the favour. To my best friend ACE. If I had to sum up our friendship, we are a living duality, yet we have near-identical lives; thus, it inspires me on a personal level when you succeed. May you continue in the years to come!. HBD 🎉⭕️
I was going to give up a long time ago. I felt that AIKODE was going to be another of my many failures, things weren't working out and I was at a pretty low point, but at that moment I met @Stephen_Ddungu and his projects, that's when I realized that I was just running away.
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For those who want to hear my real stance on it, here it is. (I doubt they’ll approve my response to their article anyway 😌). (2/2)
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2022’s gonna be a great year…. #indiedev #gamedev #animation. @PURPOSEVERSA♦️.@PURPOSEVERSUS🔻.@SWORDOFSYMPHONY🎶
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2023’s gonna be an amazing year…. #indiedev #gamedev #animation. @PURPOSEVERSA♦️.@PURPOSEVERSUS🔻.@SWORDOFSYMPHONY🎶
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Another example of articles writing what they *want* me to say for controversy clicks 🤦🏾♂️. @GameByte, your headlines are literally false. • If you see articles saying I actually accuse Dr Strange of copying me, just know they’re probably just doing for more ad-revenue. (1/2)
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Happy to be backed by you guys! 🙏🏾.
🎶 @Stephen_Ddungu . Stephen is a self-taught game-dev, musician and animator based in the UK who’s currently solo-developing @SWORDOFSYMPHONY; a musical action RPG where players fight with the power of music.
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It's finally time to REVEAL this new trailer…. This is a project I developed between September 2023 & March 2024,. Mainly as practice during the development of @SWORDOFSYMPHONY,. And which I have been cryptically teasing for almost a year,. Since now it's in its polishing stage.
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Time for a new one… 👨🏾💻.
2022’s gonna be a great year…. #indiedev #gamedev #animation. @PURPOSEVERSA♦️.@PURPOSEVERSUS🔻.@SWORDOFSYMPHONY🎶
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2021’s gonna be an even bigger year…. #indiedev #gamedev #animation @PURPOSEVERSA @PURPOSEVERSUS @SWORDOFSYMPHONY
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Thanks for the coverage :).
Take a look at @SWORDOFSYMPHONY, an RPG where you fight with music, from a solo developer @Stephen_Ddungu: . #gamedev #indiedev #3dart #gamedevelopment #b3d #blender3d #blender
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Due to change this👇🏾… 🤔💡.
2021’s gonna be an even bigger year…. #indiedev #gamedev #animation @PURPOSEVERSA @PURPOSEVERSUS @SWORDOFSYMPHONY
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My real stance is in the images below. (sources).[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] (2/2)
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Thanks for having me! Loved the interview! :).
Just had an inspiring chat with @Stephen_Ddungu, the solo dev behind the upcoming innovative Music-ARPG @SWORDOFSYMPHONY. We spoke about motivation, creativity, discipline & more. Episode of @zerotoplay coming soon!.
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Thanks for the s/o, can’t believe I missed this xD.
Y’all I’m gonna need y’all to blow @Stephen_Ddungu the fuck up. This looks INCREDIBLE AND I NEED IT NOW
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Thanks again for having me! :).
🎙️ @Stephen_Ddungu. In this interview we spoke about:.• Choosing to be a solo dev.• How he stays motivated while learning so many skills (animation, composition, gamedev).• Long-term vision of his projects.• Going viral on social media.• And more!.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if they did 😌, though what I’ve yet to reveal for @SWORDOFSYMPHONY is about to hit much harder… ;).
@Stephen_Ddungu @PurposeVERSA @PurposeVERSUS @SWORDOFSYMPHONY Hey, did @DrStrange steal your entire musical fight premise for the most highly lauded part of their new movie?.
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Thanks again for the interview 🙏🏾.
"As a creator, you should just stay true to your vision because you are always going to have contrasting perspectives." . "There is always going to be a for-and-against, and there are always going to be people taking either side." - @Stephen_Ddungu.
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If you told him back then that his game would go from 1k to 20k+ in 3 months, go viral on TikTok and have @IGN, @Kotaku, @GameRant etc. reach out to him, he’d probably faint. 😌. Thank you so much everyone for enjoying my work/s! 🙏🏾💚._. This is literally just the beginning… 🔥.
A BIG thank you to all the followers of my newest project, @SWORDOFSYMPHONY for helping the page reach 1k!.🎉🎉🎉🎼. More on the game below:👇🏾.
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About time I made this xD.
Reveal of the official logo for Sword Of Symphony’s first title 🎶
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Cinematic story trailer (with release date) dropping later today…
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To you @ACE19111545/@AIKODEgame, one of my most deeply cherished friends… . (Hope you had a fantastic birthday yesterday! 🎈)
I had to do it. (it's a tradition now). To the guy who believed in my stuff when hardly anyone else did. Happy Birthday! @Stephen_Ddungu
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When motivation is absent, discipline must take its place 👨🏾💻📈…
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…where all dwells before & outside existence…. [][][][][] [][] [][𝑥][][][][][][][].
Abso[L]utely noth[i]ng out of th[e] ordinary… . Just another completely ‘normal’ #SWORDOFSYMPHONY dev summary for SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER 2023… 👀. ———————————. #gamedev #b3d #indiegame #animation
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Somnus on piano 🎹 for #FFXV’s 5th anniversary 🥳.(Versus XIII + KH3RM version). Who remembers when Somnus used to have this intro? . #HBDFFXV #kingdomhearts #piano
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Looking forward to it!
Final day of #GDEX2022 & @originsgames. Our talks kick-off at 10am with @Stephen_Ddungu on “What it's like being a solo-dev” A222 and @ms3DProps on “Enhancing your Games with Virtual Production and ICVFX” A220!
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Thanks for having me on! 🙏🏾 Enjoyed the interview :).
✨BGG Spotlight✨ .It’s an honor and privilege to speak with @SWORDOFSYMPHONY's very own game dev @Stephen_Ddungu. Stephen is a 22-year-old, self-taught, game dev who started his journey developing games like @PurposeVERSUS before expanding to this super dope music action RPG!
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Working on it… 👨🏾💻. (This one’s gonna be special)
Due to change this👇🏾… 🤔💡.
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Thank you bro! 🙏🏾. I’m genuinely so blessed to have you as a friend. Words cannot describe how proud of you I am & how happy your progress makes me. Here’s to another year of crushing it (w/ the rest of the circle ;) ⭕️).
I was going to give up a long time ago. I felt that AIKODE was going to be another of my many failures, things weren't working out and I was at a pretty low point, but at that moment I met @Stephen_Ddungu and his projects, that's when I realized that I was just running away.
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Cooking up something a little different for my next cover. 👨🏾🍳🎶.Working on a #piano & #cello (strings) cover of “His World” from Sonic 06. 🎹🎻. #SonicTheHedgehog #Sonic06 #BGM #gameaudio
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Was a pleasure guys 🙏🏾 you’re some of the coolest people I’ve had the honour of being interviewed by! Can’t wait to watch it!!.
Thank you to @Stephen_Ddungu of @SWORDOFSYMPHONY for taking time today to speak with @DallazMan @baronj67 & @FameEnt2k . we will share out the interview as soon as we can.
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Bro’s crushing it, as usual 💯💪🏾⭕️.
ACE spoke about the perks of being a solo game developer, shared what titles inspired the upcoming action-adventure @AIKODEgame, and discussed the game's world and gameplay mechanics:. #games #videogames #gamedev #gamedevelopment #unrealengine5 #ue5
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Lmaaaaoooo this is perfection.
POV: You've gone and pissed off the entire Indie Character Action Gang. !💀. If you like the genre check out these fantastic upcoming games!. From left to right:.@Assault_Spy .@StudioSaiGames .@SWORDOFSYMPHONY .@ENENRAGame .@jordy_j_s .@erikskog_ .@nukefist
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A BIG thank you to all the followers of my newest project, @SWORDOFSYMPHONY for helping the page reach 1k!.🎉🎉🎉🎼. More on the game below:👇🏾.
Made it to 1k 🎉🎉🎉. Thank you everyone for taking an interest in the game so far! And a BIG welcome to all my new followers here!. You’re all amazing 🙏🏾💚
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The Final World intro (Melody Of Memory Ver.) cover. 🎼. p.s: should I finish this? 👀._________________________. #KingdomHearts #MelodyOfMemory
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@doctor16t @ACE19111545 @AIKODEgame @SWORDOFSYMPHONY I’ve been deliberately silent as there’s 2 large-scale things I’ve been preparing this year (one of which is related to @SWORDOFSYMPHONY). I’ll announce them when they’re both ready to release (a little later this year) and afterwards resume showing progress updates on my works.
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@JGeorgeVGM Bro, I never thought it was literal when you hear people say “the media twists the truth”, but man it hits different when its happening to you in real-time. 😂.
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Just woke up and this has already made my day! :). Thank you so much @indiegamesdevel ! This is so beautifully written 🙏🏾.
A musical journey enclosed in the world of @SWORDOFSYMPHONY . An ambitious and promising project, directed by the solo-dev, @Stephen_Ddungu . #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #gaming #videogames.
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The kind of maths I have to go through for @SWORDOFSYMPHONY🎶 when the BPM is anything other than 120 📐📝…. Just so my character can run around and wack enemies 😌…. #gamedev
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Just wait til you see the connection between Sword Of Symphony and Purpose… 😏🤫
Stephen is also building another game (which is paired with an animated series) called PURPOSE, set in the same universe, you can find the info to those here 👇🤯.
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Now of cour[S]e, I w[o]n’t confir[m] 🤐. N[e]ither will I.com[P]letely deny their [a]nalysis he[r]e a[t] thi[s] time, 🤫. Despite th[a]t, 🤷🏾♂️. This a[r]ticl[e] is cert[A]inly an in[c]redibly [c]aptivating eval[u]ation [r]egardless, 📰✨. And [a]bsolu[t]ely worth the r[e]ad! 💯.
After a brief silence from the #solodev , @stephen_ddungu , we're repaid with a brand new monthly video. Let's analyze it together and delve deeper into @swordofsymphony. #indiegame #indiedev.
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What’s this? Sora in @SWORDOFSYMPHONY? 👀._____________________________. #gamedev #kingdomhearts #b3d #AprilFools
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IT’S A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE IT’S YOU TOO BRO!! 💪🏾🏆. (p.s: If any of you like Kingdom Hearts, you NEED to see this man’s KH animations 👀🔥🔥).
OUR BOI @Stephen_Ddungu GOT VERIFIED. IM SO HAPPY FOR YOU BROTHER!!!.
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Honoured to be interviewed by you guys! Thanks for having me on! 🙏🏾🤜🏾🎶.
Our gaming editor @JamalNOC caught up with @Stephen_Ddungu, sole developer and creator of his incredible new project @SWORDOFSYMPHONY that recently took social media by storm. Check out their conversation here!
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Again, thanks to everyone who auditioned for my 2 main bois; Tobias (from @PurposeTheAnime) & Kaleb (from @PurposeVersus). I’m SUPER excited to hear how you’ve all brought them to life, as it‘s always been a dream of mine to finally hear them!. Best of luck to you all! 👊🏾🔥
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the solo-dev experience. (𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘮𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘶𝘱𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰). ———————————. #2danimation #gamedev #indiedev #animation ✍🏾
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Context:.The two characters at the start are Tobias & Kaleb from my 1st project, ‘Purpose’ (@PurposeVERSA & @PurposeVERSUS). The character after is Stefān; he, as many of you know, is the protagonist of my 2nd project @SWORDOFSYMPHONY. Both are connected. ‘How’ is a secret rn.
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A little sneak peak at the final render of Roxas’ duel wielding his Oblivion and Oathkeeper. **Cannot wait until I finally release this!!**. #LifeOfRoxas #indiedev #3Danimation #b3d #Blender3d #animationdev #KingdomHearts #roxas #keyblade #animation
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I’ve finally finished uni 🙌🏾. Now to give Stefān a little ‘post-uni transformation’ before I continue development of @SWORDOFSYMPHONY ✨🎼…. 👆🏾 (Now is a good time to turn bell notifs on) 👀🔔👆🏾…
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Appreciate the love 🤜🏾🙏🏾.
I've been inlove with this game and it's concept since day 1 of me finding it and I just can't wait. @Stephen_Ddungu is doing great work and you need to follow him on everything and check out @SWORDOFSYMPHONY asap.
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And finally, all main shooting mechanics are almost finished! Just need to create the cover mechanic (hide/crouch behind walls) and a reload system and then @PurposeVersus will be ready for a 7th video update!! & Then onto the next step!!. #IndieGameDev #indiedev #gamedev
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Proud of you my bro 🤜🏾. Looking forward to joining you soon ;).
The time has come. This is the official release for the CONTENT CREATORS Demo. I just started sending emails to content creators!. Keep in mind that there are MANY of you (and I'm not exaggerating, more than 300 content creators), so for some of you it may take until tomorrow
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A message for you all before the release of my trailer/s!. Also watch them now below!.&.
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Breakdown post on the music from the [][][][][] [][] [][𝑥][][][][][][][] (@0x0000000_game) reveal trailer:. This music, which plays during the ‘conversation’ scene, features a piece I composed called ‘[the Garden]’…. ‘[the Garden] is the main recurring theme in the project.
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Thanks for covering the latest updates guys! 🙏🏾 :).
The game, @swordofsymphony , will teach us how to understand and use music within it. Let’s discover the latest cryptic news from the solo-dev @stephen_ddungu. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #gaming.#videogame.
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Weapon switching mechanic/animations all finished! Now to adjust a few other small things and it’s FINALLY onto the battle system. #indiedev #IndieGameDev #indiegame #gamedev
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The best friend has cooked 🙌🏾🔥. Here’s to more years of our cherished friendship & our progression towards our goals ⭕️.
I had to do it. (it's a tradition now). To the guy who believed in my stuff when hardly anyone else did. Happy Birthday! @Stephen_Ddungu
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I'm literally the ONLY ONE on YouTube who's made an orchestral version of the full KH3 theme song "Chikai"🤷🏾♂️. That's until @ProjectDestati finally releases theirs. Man, I'm dying to hear other people's arrangements!!.#orchestral #KH3 #cover #chikai.
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Enemies can now dodge bullets in @PurposeVersus. Next is to make the enemy counter attacks! . #indiedev #IndieGameDev #gamedev #animation
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Another great article covering key details on the game’s development. Thanks for making this @playerdotme 🙏🏾🙏🏾.
Enchanting Melodies Await: 'Sword of Symphony' — A Solo-Created Musical Adventure . Read More: . #playstation #xbox #nintendo #nintendoswitch #gaming #gamingcommunity #gamingnews #playerme #videogame.
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My piano rendition of the ‘story of the [first draft]’ leitmotif 🎹. 🧵 (2/3)
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Introducing a new game I’m developing for my uni Final Project; a music-action RPG called @SWORDOFSYMPHONY🎵. The game explores the concept of using character-action gameplay to compose music. It’s also tied to @PurposeVERSUS, though how is currently a secret 😉…. #gamedev #b3d
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Breakdown post of the music in my 2025 promo animation:. The piece applies a leitmotif I composed titled “𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙣𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙮𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙝?”. It is one of 16 leitmotifs I’ve composed over the last 2 years. Some for my projects, some just for myself.
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Thanks for covering the recent updates on the game guys! :) 🙏🏾.
All the latest development news on @SWORDOFSYMPHONY, the @Stephen_Ddungu solo project. An action RPG title with a musical heart . #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #Videogame #gaming_news .
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Bro casually talking about himself in his own game xD ⭕️. Something only @AIKODEgame would do 😂.
AIKODE - SHIBUYA. #aikode #3dart #WIP #indiedev #indiegamedev #gamedev #indiegame #animation #blender #b3d #UE4 #UE5 #UE #ゲーム制作 #インディーゲーム
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All animation for the cinematic trailer of @PurposeVERSA & @PurposeVERSUS is finally finished! Now to move onto final editing & music🙌🏾. p.s: I guess this means teasers now 😏…. ✨
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Finally!! 🙌🏾 Just uploaded @PurposeVersus’ seventh progress update on @YouTube!. Showcasing the gun mechanics 🔫, new HUD, cover system, and a mini tutorial (for the fellow #UPBGE gamedevs watching✌🏾). #indiedev #indiegamedev #gamedev #PURPOSEVERSUS
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My first time doing a 2D animation (that’s not a sprite sheet for VFX particle effects xD). Was actually more fun to do than I thought! Looking forward to doing more for future milestones ✍🏾….
Another milestone reached‼️🥳✅. Thank you everyone for 3K followers!! 💚🎶._________________________. #3k #animation
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Animating a little something for my return to social media…. ———————————. #indiedev #animation
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Roxas vs Xion segment (W.I.P). **Background music is not from my Life Of Roxas arrangement**. >>insert feels<<. #LifeOfRoxas #indiedev #3Danimation #b3d #Blender3d #animationdev #KingdomHearts #roxas #xion
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Weapon switching mechanic/animations while sprinting complete 👊🏾⚔️🔫 + forward dash animation for @PurposeVersus (will polish animations even more later on). #indiedev #gamedev #IndieGameDev #indiegame
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Implementing the sword swings into the game engine! Here’s the first one. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev #animation
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Actually, just need to do some more weapon switching animations for while Kaleb is running & sprinting and THEN onto the battle system 👀😅. #indiedev #IndieGameDev #indiegame #gamedev
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