Toby Fox, the creator of Undertale and Deltarune, will seemingly begin writing columns for Weekly Famitsu Magazine, according to Famitsu itself.
The column will be called "Toby Fox's Secret Base" with the first piece featuring in Weekly Famistu Magazine dated September 29th, 2022. Fox will effectively be replacing Masahiro Sakurai, director of games such as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Kid Icarus: Uprising, who previously wrote over 600 articles for Famitsu between 2003 and 2021.
Sakurai has since gone on to produce YouTube videos on the practice of game development. His videos include a breakdown of 'risk and reward' in video games, along with the ideal framerate developers should be striving for. He's also recently celebrated a significant milestone, with his YouTube channel surpassing 700,000 subscribers; a feat that would take years for a lot of other channels.
As for Toby Fox, the creator also frequently composes video game music, most recently announcing that he has contributed new music to the upcoming Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, due for launch on November 18th, 2022.
What do you make of Toby Fox's new venture with Famistu? Share your thoughts in the usual place!
[source famitsu.com, via gonintendo.com]
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Seems like he really made it in Japan! Good for him. I imagine not many western people having a column in famitsu?
Holy double s*** what?! That's awesome. Everything's coming up Toby recently. Multiple songs in the Pokemon series and now writing in Sakurai's old seat?
Toby Fox is an inspiration to all indie game developers. He definitely made the most of everything!
I knew Toby and undertale were pretty popular in Japan, but I didn’t think he was so popular that he would be a ideal replacement for sakurai’s column
Nice to see how you can start off making Earthbound romhacks and end up making such great achievements!
Toby's really becoming a BIG SHOT now
Sakurai challenged Toby to a rematch, and this was the wager.
Man this guy really gets around, huh?
Hopefully these will be translated! I'm obsessed with this man, I'm even visiting the Undertale cafe in 2 days
This is INCREDIBLE!
I guess since he and Sakurai met up a while back, Toby asked him about the position recently and Sakurai said to go for it! Congrats Toby! Looking forward to reading your columns!
Talk about a downgrade. And I say that as someone who enjoys Undertale and Deltarune.
You know how in various historical figures' stories there's often someone who is like a precursor for them but is ultimately mostly remembered as the guy who discovered the famous guy?
I think we're seeing that with Andrew Hussie and Toby Fox. He's outdid Homestuck a few times over by now.
To think, he was so small, look at how he’s grown!
So does this guy speak Japanese or something?
@huyi A razor sharp deduction. Hope we can count on your sagacity in future articles Mr. Holmes.
Good speed Mr link sword ✨✨ very quality Indeed 💗💗
@duffmmann That's a pretty rude thing to say. Sakurai has a great relationship with Toby and I'm sure he was happy to pass the torch to him.
I hope this still leaves him enough time to finish Delta Rune and start Mother 4
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