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Toby Fox
Born (1991-10-11) October 11, 1991 (age 33)
Known forUndertale and Hiveswap
Websitefwugradiation.tumblr.com

Toby Fox (born October 11, 1990), also known as Nuclear, is an American video game developer and composer. He is best known for developing the critically acclaimed video game Undertale in 2015.[1] He also composed various pieces of music for the webcomic Homestuck.

Career

Fox started composing a variety of music for Andrew Hussie's 2009 webcomic Homestuck during his senior-year in high school. Fox initially didn't respond when Hussie started a "Music Contribution Team" in April 2009 and put up a news post asking musicians to participate. However, Hussie took note of his work when Fox started uploading piano covers of the webcomic's music on the MS Paint Adventures forums.[2] Fox also co-composed the music for the 2017 Homestuck video game Hiveswap.[3]

Fox's most popular work is the 2015 role-playing video game Undertale, which sold over one million copies,[4] becoming a "breakout hit" and "pop-culture phenomenon".[5] Fox worked on the entire game independently, besides some of the art; he decided to work independently to avoid relying on others.[6] Fox had little game development experience before Undertale, using RPG Maker 2000 with his three brothers to make role-playing games along with making some EarthBound ROM hacks in high school.[7] He thought of the character designs and ideas for Undertale in college, where he drew them in his notebook.[8]

Following its release, the game garnered an extensive fanbase and a large degree of controversy over the praise garnered by the game.[9] Fox commented that he did not mind if people stated that they did not like the game, saying that it was "not for everyone".[9] Despite Undertale's awards and widespread acclaim, Fox wrote that his personal opinion was that the game was still "niche" and deserved an "8/10" review score.[10]

In 2016, Toby Fox released a number of unused musical tracks from Undertale.[11] He also became a contributor to the A Profound Waste of Time magazine.[12] More recently, Fox was chosen to be part of the 2018 Games Forbes 30 Under 30 list for his role in creating Undertale.[13]

References

  1. ^ Oxford, Nadia. "Does It Hold Up? Undertale". USgamer. Archived from the original on August 3, 2017. Retrieved August 2, 2017. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ Funk, John (October 15, 2012). "Land of Memes and Trolls: The Epic and Ridiculous Self-Aware World of Homestuck". Polygon. Vox Media. Archived from the original on May 20, 2016. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ Horti, Samuel (September 3, 2017). "Act 1 of Homestuck adventure game Hiveswap coming out this month". PC Gamer. Archived from the original on September 5, 2017. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ Grubb, Jeff (April 13, 2016). "Stardew Valley is one of the best-selling PC games of the year as it surpasses 1M copies sold". GamesBeat. VentureBeat. Archived from the original on April 22, 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2016. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ Wawro, Alex. "Undertale dev reflects on what it's like to have your game become a phenomenon". Gamasutra. Archived from the original on August 3, 2017. Retrieved August 2, 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ Turi, Tim (October 15, 2015). "GI Show – Yoshi's Woolly World, Star Wars: Battlefront, Undertale's Toby Fox". Game Informer. GameStop. Archived from the original on January 20, 2016. Retrieved January 20, 2016. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ Han Tani, Sean (May 25, 2013). "Toby Fox's Undertale – DEV 2 DEV INTERVIEW #1". ambient-melodic. Archived from the original on September 13, 2017. Retrieved January 20, 2016. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  8. ^ Alexandra, Heather. "Undertale Creator Shares Notebook Full Of Early Concepts And Art". Kotaku. Archived from the original on August 3, 2017. Retrieved August 2, 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ a b Grayson, Nathan. "Undertale Creator: It's OK If People Dislike The Game". Steamed. Archived from the original on August 3, 2017. Retrieved August 2, 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  10. ^ O'Connor, Alice (September 15, 2016). "8/10: Undertale Dev Reflects On Unexpected Popularity". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Archived from the original on August 3, 2017. Retrieved August 2, 2017. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  11. ^ O'Brien, Lucy (September 15, 2016). "Undertale Creator Releases Unused Music to Celebrate 1-Year Anniversary". IGN. Archived from the original on August 3, 2017. Retrieved August 2, 2017. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  12. ^ "Ashly Burch, Toby Fox and Mike Z join the Profound Waste of Time team". Destructoid. Archived from the original on May 27, 2017. Retrieved August 2, 2017. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  13. ^ "Toby Fox". Forbes. Retrieved December 3, 2017. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |website= (help)
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