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Within six months of its release, Undertale had sold 1 million copies, according to the video site Stream. It won awards in 2016 from the Independent Games and South by Southwest Games festivals.

“It was a big hit immediately. It threw the whole RPG (role playing games) model on its head,” said Andrew Cleary, a software engineer and avid gamer. Cleary graduated from Central in 2016 and like a lot of Manchester residents, he is recounting possible Fox contacts.

His older sister was friends with the youngest Fox, Kenneth, and Toby may have visited the Cleary house at some point, Andrew said.

“When I heard about (Undertale), I said, ‘I know this guy’s brother. That’s so cool,’” he said.

The 10-year-old daughter of Jason Wells, the former assistant pastor at Grace Episcopal Church, gets to brag to friends that her father had Fox in his church youth group.

“That’s given her a lot of cred in the fifth-grade set,” Well said.

Now the director of the New Hampshire Council of Churches, Wells said he was pleased that Fox created a game with moral choices that forces players to confront the consequences of those choices.

Doyle the music teacher likes to tell a story about Fox. In middle school, Fox once wrote a fugue, a musical composition most associated with Baroque music that repeats themes, some would say monotonously.

After studying Fox’s work, Doyle thought he just hadn’t grasped the rules of fugue composition.

“Now that I think back,” Doyle said, “he was just writing his own rules because that’s the type of person he is.”