Toby Fox Biography
Toby Fox is a video game developer and composer from the United States, best known for creating the cult game ‘Undertale.’ He is best known for creating the role-playing video games Undertale and Deltarune, for which he received nominations for a British Academy Game Award, three Game Awards, and D.I.C.E. Awards, the video game equivalent of the Academy Awards.
Toby Fox Age- Birthday
Fox was born on October 11, 1991, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. He is 31 years old as of October 2022.
Toby Fox Education
He studied environmental science at Northeastern University.
Toby Fox Career
Toby began working on a unique battle experience that would allow gamers to defeat enemies in ways other than fighting them head-to-head. Toby expanded his imagination even further, deciding that if the players only used violence to kill the enemy, they would face consequences. More and more characters appeared as the game began to take shape inside Toby’s head. Toby created the majority of the characters as amusing parodies of clichés that were common in American role-playing games at the time. A battle mechanism was central to his plot, while the rest of the game’s elements, such as characters and their motivations, were secondary.
He created his main character as a symbol for all of humanity and did not give it a name. It was simply titled “the human” so that more people could emotionally connect with the character. Furthermore, the player is referred to as ‘you’ in the game, which was another expository message about the themes he wanted to convey to his players. Toby hid easter eggs throughout the game to make it more ‘alive’ and to make the player feel like they were a part of the entire process. After completing the demo for the game ‘Undertale,’ Toby began looking for funding and sent the blueprint to several of his industry friends and online communities.
On June 25, 2013, he launched a crowd-funding campaign for the game on Kickstarter, with a $5,000 goal. Toby’s campaign highlighted the factors that set the game apart from others, which helped him gain more attention. Toby was skeptical about the campaign’s success in the beginning, but it eventually became a huge success, and by the end of the campaign, the game had collected $51,124 – ten times the target amount! Toby began working harder to ensure that the game provides the best game-playing experience to the gamers; he also hired a few experts to assist him in completing his vision on time. In September 2015, the game was finally released to critical and commercial acclaim. Toby is a contributor to the magazine ‘A Profound Waste of Time’. In 2017, he was hired to compose the music for the game ‘Hiveswap.’
Toby Fox’s Net Worth
Fox has an estimated net worth of 4 million dollars as of 2022.