Toby Fox
American video game designer and composer
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| 2025 | Toby Fox is set to release a remaster of the game 'Off' for Windows and Nintendo Switch platforms |
| 2025 | Toby Fox composes music for a version of OFF on Windows and Nintendo Switch |
| 2024 | Composed guest songs 'Fallen Wing' for Hololive VTuber Amane Kanata and 'Dead Ma'am's Chest' in collaboration with Hololive VTuber Houshou Marine |
| 2024 | Partnered with Japanese game developer ZUN for the game Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost, creating a track that combined the Touhou song 'U.N - Owen Was Her?' with the Undyne battle song 'Battle Against a True Hero' from Undertale |
| September 2024 | Announced a new partnership for Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost on YouTube, with a brief preview of a song seemingly based on 'Megalovania' |
| 2023 | Composed songs 'The Greatest Living Show' and 'Prelude' (with bo en), and served as the original composer for 'Pokémon Horizons' and a voice actor in two episodes of 'We Baby Bears' |
| 2023 | Toby Fox composed music for the game Mr. Saitou. |
| 2022 | Toby Fox contributes music to the major Nintendo Switch game Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. |
| 2022 | Composed and wrote 'Skies Forever Blue' in collaboration with Itoki Hana |
| 2022 | Toby Fox worked as a guest composer for beatmania IIDX 30 RESIDENT. |
| 2021 | Provided guest items and stories for 'Get in the Car, Loser!' and was a featured artist on the song 'Myths You Forgot' |
| September 17 2021 | Fox released the second chapter of Deltarune for free, citing the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. He announced plans to release the next two chapters simultaneously at a price higher than Undertale in 2025. |
| 2020 | Contributed to the Hobonichi Mother Project 'Pollyanna' comic and directed/animated the Chip Tanaka/Hammerhead Shark Song music video |
| 2020 | Toby Fox created jukebox music for the video game Omori. |
| 2020 | Two more games are released: Dweller's Empty Path and Hiveswap: Act 2, both featuring Toby Fox's musical compositions. |
| September 2020 | Toby Fox publicly disclosed his chronic wrist and hand pain, which was causing delays in the development of Deltarune's second chapter due to a significant pain flareup. |
| 2019 | Composed a track for Pokémon Sword and Shield |
| 2019 | Toby Fox contributed music as a guest composer to multiple video games, including YIIK: A Postmodern RPG, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (DLC), Pesterquest, and Pokémon Sword and Shield. |
| 2019 | Composed music for Game Freak's RPG Little Town Hero, which was arranged by Pokémon composer Hitomi Sato |
| 2019 | Two games released with Fox's musical contribution: Escaped Chasm on Windows and Little Town Hero on Windows, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One |
| June 12 2019 | Fox expressed hope on Twitter about completing the rest of Deltarune, stating he was 'slowly writing and drawing it all out' and had composed 'about 50 songs past Chapter 1'. |
| 2018 | Toby Fox creates Deltarune, serving as director, composer, and writer, released on Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch |
| 2018 | Fox visits Masahiro Sakurai's home, where they discuss Super Smash Bros. and play Super Smash Bros. Ultimate together, trading wins and losses equally. |
| 2018 | Fox worked as a guest composer, lyricist, and vocalist for the album 'PRAY', and performed game testing for 'Black Bird' |
| 2018 | Toby Fox served as a guest composer for the video game Hiveswap Friendsim. |
| 2018 | Fox is selected for Forbes 30 Under 30 list for creating Undertale, by which time the game had sold over 2 million copies. |
| November 1 2018 | Fox shared details about Deltarune, explaining that the remaining chapters were planned to release simultaneously, but development had not yet started. He also revealed he had been working on the project since 2012. |
| October 31 2018 | Fox released the first chapter of Deltarune for free, presenting it as a 'survey', revealing it as an anagram of 'Undertale'. |
| October 30 2018 | Toby Fox tweeted a request for Undertale fans to check the game's official Twitter account in 24 hours, teasing the release of Deltarune. |
| 2017 | Composed music for the Homestuck video game Hiveswap |
| 2016 | Fox releases unused musical tracks from Undertale and becomes a contributor to the A Profound Waste of Time magazine. |
| 2016 | Fox creates Rose of Winter, an indie game where he composed the music. |
| 2016 | Fox completed his work on Homestuck, having created many of the webcomic's iconic tracks including Megalovania, Descend, and Oppa Toby Style throughout the series' run. |
| 2015 | Toby Fox releases Undertale, an independently developed role-playing video game that becomes a 'breakout hit' and 'pop-culture phenomenon', selling over 1 million copies. |
| 2014 | Graduated from Northeastern University with a degree in environmental science. |
| 2012 | Fox composed the album 'I Miss You - EarthBound 2012' and created a guest arrangement for Metronomy's 'Black Eye Burnt Thumb' |
| 2010 | Toby Fox wrote, composed, and performed vocals for the album 'The Baby is You' for Homestuck |
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