25 Facts About Toby Fox

Robert F "Toby" Fox was born on October 11,1991 and is an American video game developer and composer.

Toby Fox is the creator and head of the ongoing development of Deltarune, which contains many characters and features from Undertale, and has garnered significant praise.

Robert F Fox was born on October 11,1991, in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Toby Fox studied environmental science at Northeastern University and graduated in 2014.

Toby Fox has stated that as a child, he was mesmerised by the music and atmosphere of Final Fantasy VI.

Toby Fox played a piano rendition of the Touhou Project track "Necrofantasia" at his church's summer camp.

Toby Fox was inspired by Touhou's philosophy of not giving up on a game simply to hear the music.

Toby Fox later conducted an improvised Touhou music session on Tumblr, in which he created "improvised Touhou music that doesn't actually exist" including a boss track named An Apple Disaster.

Toby Fox then moved on to compose a variety of music for Andrew Hussie's 2009 webcomic Homestuck during his senior year of high school.

Toby Fox has stated in a tribute post to musician George Buzinkai that tracks such as the unused Homestuck theme called "Patient" inspired Undertale themes such as "Another Medium".

Toby Fox had some experience in game development before Undertale, using RPG Maker 2000 with his three brothers to make role-playing games and EarthBound ROM hacks in high school, the most notable of which was Earthbound: The Halloween Hack.

Toby Fox thought of the character designs and ideas for Undertale while in college, where he drew them in his notebook.

Toby Fox commented that he did not mind if people stated that they did not like the game, saying that it was "not for everyone".

In 2016, Toby Fox released a number of unused musical tracks from Undertale.

Toby Fox became a contributor to the A Profound Waste of Time magazine.

Toby Fox was then chosen to be part of the 2018 Games Forbes 30 Under 30 list for his role in creating Undertale; by then the game had sold over 2 million copies.

Ultimate as a Mii costume available through downloadable content, along with an instrumental composition "Megalovania", for which Toby Fox provided a new arrangement.

On October 30,2018, Toby Fox tweeted a request for fans of Undertale to check the game's official Twitter account in 24 hours.

Toby Fox stated that he had been working on the project since 2012, and that the idea for Undertale developed from Deltarune during production.

On September 17,2021, Toby Fox released the second chapter of Deltarune for free since "the world has been really tough for everybody recently", referring to the struggles of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Toby Fox has composed music for the 2017 Homestuck video game Hiveswap, Undertale artist Temmie Chang's short narrative game Escaped Chasm, and Game Freak's 2019 RPG Little Town Hero, the last of which was arranged by Pokemon composer Hitomi Sato.

Toby Fox composed a track for Pokemon Sword and Shield, a vocal song for Itoki Hana's PRAY album, and multiple tracks for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet.

Toby Fox remixed Ed Sheeran's "Celestial" for Scarlet and Violets expansion The Indigo Disk.

Toby Fox has chronic wrist and hand pain that regularly disables him from programming and composing.

In September 2020, Toby Fox cited a flareup of this pain as a factor in the delayed development of Deltarune second chapter.