Barkley 2

Barkley 2 was intended to be an action role-playing game that Rock, Paper, Shotgun's Nathan Grayson described would "marry the aesthetics and absurd narrative arcs of Japanese role-players" with the openness of Western games like The Elder Scrolls. The game was designed to change the events in the storyline based on when a player completes certain content: in-game characters, places, and quests were to vary depending on the player's actions. The combat in the game was inspired by a range of other titles, including Dark Souls and Borderlands. ==Development==

Tales of Game's Studios, the developers of Barkley 2, launched a Kickstarter campaign on November 28, 2012, to help crowdfund the costs of producing the game. The initial funding goal for the campaign was set at $35,000. The Kickstarter campaign officially ended with a total of $120,335. The game is a sequel to the studio's 2008 freeware title Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, which itself was created as a fan game sequel to the 1994 basketball game Barkley Shut Up and Jam! and the film Space Jam. The developers announced on the Kickstarter campaign page that they anticipated a release in late 2013 or early 2014, In June 2019, a Kickstarter update confirmed that the majority of developers had left the project and that development is moving slowly, with only two people left on the project working on it part-time, neither of them members of the original team that made the first game. On June 11, 2021, the game was officially cancelled, and the source code repository (with assets included) was released to the public under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. ==References==