The inside story of the long-lost South Park game

Ten years ago, a small developer in Eugene, Oregon — Buzz Monkey Software — started making a South Park game for PlayStation 2 and Xbox. That game never made it through development, and we glimpsed it in action for the first time this weekend, via footage from an recently discovered Xbox development kit.

Marshall Gause — now president of educational developer Thought Cycle — took a job as a senior designer on that South Park project back in 2005, a few months into the game’s development cycle. He was helping to reboot the troubled and “overly ambitious” project, but just three weeks after Gause started work on South Park, its development stopped forever.