For example he created more motherly characters, that actually played a part in the game as a guide, rather than just being present, as well as making puzzles more down to the player to solve rather than being given the solutions too quickly. A massive part of Undertale is the option to never have to fight a single enemy. It makes sense because Undertale is described by Fox as being his own interpretation of traditional RPGs and a re-imaging of some of the themes or gameplay that he wasn’t fond of. There is a strong presence of soundfonts (a bank of audio files that can be triggered through MIDI) from other video games in Undertale. Toby says he started off attempting to create the music with a tracker (a traditional type of music sequencer, designed for old games consoles) but says he didn’t find trackers very intuitive.
The music echoes this with a lot of chiptune sounding music. Undertale itself has a very “retro” style to it, reminiscent of the SNES console and the 16-bit era. He interestingly, is a self-taught musician and took on the task of composing the entire soundtrack himself. Interestingly over 30% of players had discovered the game through “Let’s Play” videos from well known youtubers and another 30% from social media.Īs a one man band, Fox is responsible for every element of the game, including the music (He did take on a few guest artists). Undertale is one of the best selling games on Steam with over 1 million downloads to date. With an original funding goal of $5,000 USD, it gained over ten times this amount in donations. It was released in September 2015, after being successfully funded through a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter in 2013. For those of you with malfunctioning indie radars, Undertale is the creation of one man game developer Toby Fox.
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