Published: May 30, 2025 12:15 PM CDT
There is no denying that Toby Fox, the creator of UNDERTALE and DELTARUNE, is an indie game icon who has overtaken the world with his creations, storytelling, and beautifully crafted music. When you hear a Toby Fox soundtrack or play a game he has worked on, you can’t help but jam away or become engrossed in it. It’s truly a delight.
And not to get ahead of myself, but it has always been a dream of mine to talk to Toby Fox about his work and creations, so I can finally tick that one off on the bucket list, as he graced me with a bit of his time through emails to talk the creative process on his work, but also about his time working with Game Freak to work on the Pokémon series.
The first thing I had to ask Toby was what it was like to work with Pokémon and Game Freak to develop music tracks for the games, and if it was cool to get noticed by Game Freak and Nintendo, considering his routes with fan games like the Earthbound Halloween hack.
Working on Pokémon
Toby stopped me there, asking me what exactly I meant when I said ‘noticed by Nintendo’, stating that he “thinks it’s easy to think of many Japanese companies as fantastical and faceless, but they are made up of ordinary people living their lives. It’s not as if the real Mario knows who I am.”
I lol'd