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redacted shit:

1. Here in this update.

2. Google Form - https://forms.gle/hn6dHmmRNxrfUM8J8. This is just a way to either comment or report a bug if you so desire. We have our own ticket tracking system so this is just for anyone who wants to voice anything. If we do anything like this in the future, this will certainly evolve.

3. GitHub Issues - https://github.com/talesofgames/barkley2_bugs/issues. Same kind of thing as the one above but probably more geared towards specific issues. I don’t expect many people to use this but it’s there regardless.

4. Discord – we have a development discord that we will reorganize to get everyone who is interested a place to chat. I think we’ll get all backers a link sometime this week. In the next update I’ll have information about that (as well as BBALL TACTICS).

The demo also has a steep learning curve at points. So, I’m going to explain just a few things:

Saving

The game saves automatically. If something doesn't make sense or the game freezes up or crashes, you should be able to start the game again and load your save to the spot right before the crash happened. When totally stuck, delete your User/(name)/AppData/Local/Barkley2 folder. The folder is hidden so you'll need to turn on the ability to see it in Folder Options.

Maps

You can access maps by pressing the M key or clicking Q for the Quickmenu and then selecting MAPS at the top. The TNN Map is not finished pixel art but it does have two places on the map that can point you to the right direction:

When you start the game you should buy a map from Dubre, who is right where X1’s face is on the map above. After that, you can explore around, but 3 points to touch on are:

Tutorial Classroom – This is relatively light but has text descriptions of all the systems in the game, in some form or another.

Pay Rent – this is your first quest in the game, on the West Side of town.

Sewers – This is the combat area in the game, and at the North of Town.

Those three places should give you enough time to wander around and get the gist of the game.

Smelting and Reloading

The game cycle works by having you collect a bunch of gun’s and destroy the ones you don’t want for materials or “smelt points” that can be used to refill your other gun’s with ammo. The UI of the Utility Menu is admittedly less-than-efficient in this process but you just need to head to GUN’S -> SMELT, and then GUN’S – RELOAD in order to get this done.

Breeding

While breeding gun's is consciously obtuse, the end results of most gun's are fairly simple.

Unless gun's are wildly different in value, their "child" will almost always get stronger. Since this demo is only really dropping the same value gun's, you should always expect a better gun as a child. There is no need to learn the system inside and out.

That said, there are some AFFIXES that are bad. Those are intentional and are supposed to push players to breed OUT those bad genes and keep the good ones.

There are a lot of gun drops in the game, and lots and lots of materials to play with. The design focus is one experimentation and not on maximizing the stats of "the perfect gun."

Experiment and hopefully you'll enjoy!

That's it for now. I'll follow up on the first few days of this demo being out mid-week.

Liam

lastly get a sega saturn

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>>16607413

>>16607420

>>16607424

newfags who joined less than 2 weeks ago

I heard this game was cancelled because it grew beyond the scope of the creators.

>>16607424

>nvm

Leave.

>>16607420

>>16607440

>>16607424

>>16607448

>cuckchannelers think they fit in

>>16607434

I think one or two people are trying to salvage it, however that turns out.

>>16607449

the 4um is strong with the firstposter syndromers

>>16607409

Cool, didn't know they would be rolling out a demo.

For the anons that aren't in the know, basically the main minds behind Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden 2 had a good chunk of the game done but kept running out of money, so they're releasing it bit by bit, most likely source code and all, but most importantly they'll be releasing their sportsim game that was meant to be part of the core plot of the game as well pretty soon.

If you want the demo, I can upload it I guess.

>>16607486

I mean, the sportsball demo.

>>16607409

Huh, interesting. So does this mean they're trying to get the project back up? I should check my email later and let you know how it is.

I mean thanks for posting the demo and this information, but did you seriously fucking crowdfunding Barkley 2, anon?

Why?

>>16607891

cuz i make 200k a year and $100 for a body pillow was fun

>>16607893

buy me bonestorm or go to hell

>>16607409

Why did they call the world 'Tír na Nóg'? The author isn't Irish as far as I know so I don't see the need to reference Irish mythology.

>>16607924

gimmicky meme humor that aged poorly

>>16607927

The whole furry sewer bit is still on point, and the whole point of the game's humor is that it gets more hilarious as it ages, for example the whole Kurt Cobain joke ends up being more random without context and fits younger minds as they go on. And the internet pretty much allows you to catch up on what the fuck it's all about anyway. It WOULD have aged if the internet somehow collapsed.

>>16607924

Cú Chulainn appeared in the first game as a throwaway joke, so they probably were gonna expand his role in the second game. Maybe by making him not appear at all except as a bigger throwaway joke in the title itself, who knows. The whole game was a mix of a parody on JRPGs and >>16607927

>>16608003

The neoshekels bit is also probably more relevant now than ever.

>>16607993

>>16608081

Are JRPGs known for their use of Irish folklore?

>>16608107

I'd imagine the only reason it popped up was because of FF12, which was rather recent when that came out.

>Barkley 2

I thought this game died. I am interested in it but you gotta know it's made by goons and has a ton of somethingawful shit in it. So be prepared for some pozzed crap.

>>16607486

>>16607434

When the project was first started, some guy who was the brother of one of the devs for Barkley 1 set up a company for the game/kickstarter with himself as sole owner. I guess the other developers for the game just didn't pay it enough thought. First, one of the main developers of Barkley 2 left to get married. The project became a mess of unfinished ideas and apparently too many people who would temporarily work on a small amount of the project and then leave. Bhroom (the owner of the company and the guy now trying to salvage the project) is one of the big sources of this stuff. The two main developers still working on the project end up quitting after finally getting fed up and asking for "changes" to the way things were going from Bhroom and getting rebuked. As far as I'm aware Bhroom has done minimal if any coding work for the project and mostly just did PR shit. There's still one other part time coder working on the project, at least. Bhroom is also mainly responsible for why there were no public updates about what was happening to the game for the last two years, since event though some work was getting done it was never "enough". Money dried up long ago of course but I don't think this was ever a particularly critical problem, the developers mostly expected to do it for free until release and it seems the money was spent responsibly enough.

This is poorly written and someone ought to just post the something awful posts from the main dev who quit, but the point is that the guy trying to salvage the game is the same person who ruined in it first place, doesn't actually code or do art for the project, and the guy who pretty unjustly is sole owner of the company.

>>16608116

Ironically the game was in dev hell for so long it managed to sneak by without any stupid shit in it

Managed to accidentally die in the character creator, was amused (but turn down your volume for the character creator. It uses an ear-raping placeholder sound)

ps.

Anyone interested in ogling the datafiles should take a ganger at UndertaleModTool on github and use it on barkely2's data.win. There's some cool stuff

>>16608116

The joined, dropped the game and effectively left a good bit before SA became unsalvagably bad. It even makes fun of goons in the game itself, the gas pump vidcon copypasta is based off an old SA emote, but then again this was back when they actually could make fun of themselves.

>>16608116

SA wasn't always the way it is now.

>>16608116

Also to point out how low it's gotten people in the thread were seriously mad about jokes in barkley 1 like the sewer furries being made fun of and the prescence of shekels

You know, we should really stream this as well as the first one after we do Uncommon Time.

>>16608147

Furfags always infiltrate places that shit on them and try to push that "come on guys, we're all furries at heart ;)))" shit to subvert. You see it here all the time.

>backer only demo shit thats more vaporware than duke nukem forever

Everytime, I hate this shit, why do they keep doing it?

>taking nomenclature from irish mythology of all things?

Why?

>>16608147

They were mad because furries and otherkin getting surgery to become horrifying monsters was (and I quote) "trans coded"

They're so easily offended they turn everything into a joke about themselves lol

>>16608141

Why would shekels get anyone mad?

>>16608157

You serious?

>>16608160

I'm not being thick on purpose, it's just the currency, not the den of evil.

>>16608157

It's a reference to Israel's currency. Some people might think it's a "naht zee" joke.

>>16607891

It was like 10 bux and back before Kikestarters and crowdfunding in general became notorious for being scammy. I also had another delivered project, so experience hadn't taught me much.

All's gonna end well enough though.

>>16608122

>This is poorly written and someone ought to just post the something awful

Gotchu covered

web . archive . org/web/20190617202638/https://forums . somethingawful . com/showthread.php?threadid=3519798&pagenumber=269

>>16608942

>that fucking looney tunes machinery song

Gosh darn it

Also can you give us some more info on how the game's going on? I backed it, but no way in hell I'm wasting my time beta testing it myself for free

>>16620001

there are a lot of bugs, but the demo looks good and has a fair bit of content, you can get lost in the starting town chasing sidequests for a while before ever even bothering to go to the combat area

combat itself is iffy, it's similar to enter the gungeon but with randomized gun stats, properties, and effects, but has its failings like being unable to reload outside of save points, and most guns being very heavy and murdering your movement speed unless you raise the stat that fixes that

Can you guys just come clean and confirm this is you asking for beta testers and Mark is in on it with you

I wonder how much unused content is actually in this demo, seems like they didn't do much to prepare this for the backers other than change the title screen.

>>16622803

As I've already stated, I don't really quite care about beta testing a game for free. I just wanna talk about whatever info is readily available.

>>16625995

I'm sure if you go out of your way to decompile it there's gonna be about 80% of the finished game already in it.

>>16631561

Well, here's some info: The demo EXE is packed in such a way (most likely due to being gamemaker) that you can view everything in it with 7-zip

>>16632415

That's some damn quality right there

>>16632652

I played finally and the exe is actually a self extracting installer, not a self contained blob or whatever you’d call what I was implying

>>16607412

>>16608116

I usually don't do this, but as I just happened to watch the video recently I'm going to go ahead and shill a video which summarizes the clusterfuck of a debacle that is Barkley 2.

>>16634686

I guess I can't really speak for the team, since I've never dev'd a game or negotiated with a publisher, but why didn't they try approaching Devolver Digital or some other indie publisher for some additional funding and or assistance with development? Surely they could have made a reasonable agreement for funding/capital and still keep ownership of their IP?

It's obvious that a lack of funding contributed to members leaving the project. Sure, they're all b-ballers, but they're no longer schoolkids living with mommy and daddy. Imo they were lying to themselves thinking they could continue development when the coffers ran out.

>>16636058

Another thing that's been stated before is that the team lead had all sorts of connections. They were able to land interviews, con gigs, etc. Hell, they even went to (S)GDQ for the Barkley 1 speedrun. All this leaves me with an impression that there HAS to be a publisher out there that could have looked at them and the game, and say "yeah, we can make this happen".

>>16636069

>>16636058

Goons have always had a self-defeating sense of petty pride when it comes to things like business and will seemingly do the dumbest thing possible just to claim they never "sold out". It must just be in their blood.

>>16634686

>20 minutes of a faggot reading notes

Who watches this shit

>>16638633

Nobody actually watches youtube anymore. They just leave it on and tab out for background noise.

>>16638633

Niggercattle

>>16638684

I still haven't been able to find a copy of this or even someone that reliably claims to have played it.

>>16640216

We're in the same boat then. If anyone has played it, please post about it here (and perhaps share a download link)

>>16638684

The Diary of Anne Frank Shareware

The Diary of Anne Frank

Tales of Game's Studios has been hard at work bringing you this software application.

Being the newest in a long line of popular edutainment titles, The Diary of Anne Frank truly takes the genre to new heights by employing aspects that have never been seen before. Developed by actual scientists in a lab, this highly sophisticated application does not only convey the diary of Anne Frank through digital technology, but also lets the users for the first time experience the book in its truest, 100% most canonical form. This has never been done before.

Explore, feel and discover the world as it is presented to you in the ultra-modern form of Virtual Computer Technology. Experience the crisp reality of the authentic pseudo-3D employed as you flip through the pages of her diary. Wander the world of a since long forgotten era. Learn a fact and apply it IRL (In Real Life). All is possible in Tales of Game's new edutainment software title;

The Diary of Anne Frank

Seems very tame to me, no download link even thru wayback machine

>>16640573

I’ll have to double check but I don’t think it’s even in their vidcon pack either. And if any anons are interested I could up the pack on mega or some place you can recommend

>>16640647

sure

>>16640573

>seem very tame

Well, the game description was accompanied by a screenshot of Anne Frank talking to the player about how much she loves to collect gold and how she wants to collect all the gold in the world. It was a platforming game. Tame for here maybe.

>>16640664

I put it up on the share vola https://volafile.org/r/vg - Tog Vidcon Pack

I searched around for like 30 minutes, found this https://www.create-games.com/download.asp?id=6867

None of the download links work though. Seems they shoah'd it there too. The author "Drule" has a website as well but there is nothing there http://www.drule.net/

His profile was last active about 1.5 years ago, which im assuming is when he pulled it down

>>16642304

At least the reviews are pretty hilarious to read

>I first played this game after being at my computer for a while downloading junk. And it royally pissed me off at how difficult it seemed to me.

But, just today i decided to give it another go.

So I sat down, garnered up some patience, and played it with the attitude that It would be fun.

And it was fun too, until I got to the first boss that is. YOU CAN'T EVEN PLAY AGAINST ONE BOSS !!!

It puts up a message wanting you to buy the full version of the game … for what ? .. something that I could make in a day ? You get 3 more levels or so of the same irritatively designed, not a thing special about it gameplay, and maybe get to fight some bosses.

I don't even know if this Drule fellow even knows how to make a good boss, cause it wouldn't let me fight the first one !!!

You used an advertising trick that would only work on morons. BOO !! Drule .. BOO !! .. Hiss Bam BOO !!

That kind of falsification makes me not only not buy that game, but also not want to buy any other item of any sort whatsoever from you.

It would be wiser to provide the consumer with a free game, showing off your abilities, and make a bigger, more awesome game in the same style.

Then you could advertise the Huge ultimate game in the small free game. And remember to mention it is in the same style. Then if consumers like the free game, they will purchase the Pay game.

This game wasn't bad at all after I regained some of my old school platformer skills. But, noone is gonna buy your game when you lose their respect with a foul promotion like this.

Some Helpful Advice: gamers nowadays expect things easier, even the old school players aren't as good as they used to be. One death hits will kill a game quite often … in one hit Think of a more innovative method please.

>>16641341

Would you mind reuploading it? I didn't get around to it, and I'd like to have a copy to share with other anons.

>>16642538

>BOO !! Drule .. BOO !! .. Hiss Bam BOO !!

It's like I'm reading something my dad wrote.

>Then you could advertise the Huge ultimate game in the small free game. And remember to mention it is in the same style. Then if consumers like the free game, they will purchase the Pay game.

Holy cow, he's a prophet.

>>16655296

Give me a time and day so you don't miss it again!

>>16655296

>>16660852

This one's permanent https://mega.nz/#!LJd2BSZK!eI7VA-5QsXAwWlyACyJMUQXyD9X35jNfqbM2Ap1RfUk

Basket Ball Tactics demo was made public today

https://talesofgames.itch.io/basket-ball-tactics

>>16669074

I'm fucking hyped for this, gonna play it tomorrow because I'm a sportsball faggot

Here's the "Real" demo download if you don't want to download a shady EXE

https://talesofgames.itch.io/barkley-2/download/HzpM0wbDsmwVrHQ_TjKRcbBTKWmSCQGoh2i8LFbY

Pretty sure I've softlocked the Barkley 2 demo. Got caught in stealth mode and can't seem to progress through the jail place now.

>>16674603

try turning it off and on again if the durg got stuck

Gotta be quick when you reload your save though. your exact position is saved (I think)

>>16674613

The 2nd prisoner on the first floor is gone. Not sure what else can be done at this point.

>>16674628

Yeah, you're probably fucked then. Not sure if there's a way to re-enable the debug keys but they might help

>>16674651

Is there a standard method for Game Maker games? Not having any luck myself.

>>16674698

What I mean is that there's definately debug keys and menus there (saw them in dev streams)

If you want to trawl through the code there's UndertaleModTool which should turn up the bindings.

>>16674702

>if ((keyboard_check_pressed(vk_insert) || keyboard_check_pressed(vk_f8)) && global.DEBUGMODE)

Need to look up how to set that global variable

>>16674820

Oh lol, didn't know it would be THIS easy.

Edit the integer values in gml_Script_Settings:

00023: pushi.e 1

00024: pop.v.i global.DEBUGMODE

00026: pushi.e 0

00027: pop.v.i global.demoBlocker

>>16675046

Holy shit. Nice find anon!

>>16608942

>>16679197

>This demo includes Character Creation, Tir na nOg, The Sewers, and The Hoosegow. Anywhere else that you go will probably immediately lock you out and keep you from exploring.

probably the exit out of the sewers, going by that

>>16679197

There's plenty of wierd dead ends in the sewers.

I also remember being bugged by a manhole you can't climb down like the others.

>>16679811

Fuk. I might go crazy if this doesn't get finished before end of year.

>>16675091

how's the gun'splay?

>>16681139

It's a little awkward not being able to reload guns in your bag - only those on your bandolier. I'm sure I've only scraped what's possible with gun fusion. In about 4hrs of play

I've only seen dual revolvers/dual flintlocks once. This might be because I have no idea how to go about fusing.