The whole Deltarune situation is fascinating because usually what happens with indie game developers is they try to do the Big Passion Project that’s been brewing in the back of their brain for the last twenty years as their very first major undertaking – and if they’re extremely lucky, they don’t burn themselves out in the process! – but Toby Fox didn’t do that.
Instead, he deliberately started with a much more modest game that was essentially a scaled down AU version of the Big Passion Project, mostly as a way of teaching himself the ins and outs of game development, with no real expectation of broad appeal, but then that practice project proved to be immensely popular.
So basically what we’re seeing now is what happens when an indie dev is able to approach their Big Passion Project – the one that most indie devs burn their brains out trying to tackle solo – with access to a team and a budget, and, um, well
I have to confess that the results are thus far a little concerning!
anyways I think it’s based that toby fox nade a game that sold a million copies and became massively culturally iconic and got in smash and was both given as a gift to and had its final boss theme played in a performance for the pope, but his wikipedia article has no “early life” section, the “personal life” section is three sentences long, and there isn’t even a picture of him. for the 3 years between the release of undertale and deltarune chapter 1 there was talk of deleting his article because they couldn’t find any information for it that wasn’t already on the one for undertale. king of privacy.
anyways I think it’s based that toby fox nade a game that sold a million copies and became massively culturally iconic and got in smash and was both given as a gift to and had its final boss theme played in a performance for the pope, but his wikipedia article has no “early life” section, the “personal life” section is three sentences long, and there isn’t even a picture of him. for the 3 years between the release of undertale and deltarune chapter 1 there was talk of deleting his article because they couldn’t find any information for it that wasn’t already on the one for undertale. king of privacy.
Upon popular request, I present to you my first Undertale animation! Initially I just wanted this to be a still image since I am planning to do another animation with Frisk and someone else (it’s a surprise!), but you know me, just couldn’t resist the urge to animate them anyway. Hope you guys like it!
