>Be toby fox
>Never made a game
>Have a dream about the end of a video-game
>decide instead to do a side project to see if you're capable
>it becomes one of the most important indie games of the decade
>decide to release the anticipated game
>It's so fucking peak

How does he do it?

>>3818494 (OP)
Because it's barely a game and was greatly inspired by a few other games, while also being short. It was a small side project that leaned into a specific culture than he could iterate on for a long time. When his first game released he knew what fans of his first game wanted, got a lot of money, had tons of time to work on Deltarune while releasing it piecemeal so he got even more feedback and with tons of time to just iterate.
This is not even factoring in his incredible luck with the first game.

And if we're being brutally honest, as a game neither of his games are anything special. Nothing revolutionary or unique.

>>3818494 (OP)
Today, thanks to this dogshit thread, I learned that /vrpg/ lacks the "flagrant fanboy thread" reporting option. Interesting shit.

Shame about the satanic gay shit in both games
Otherwise yeah its pretty good

>>3818494 (OP)
Not an rpg

>>3818607
Define an rpg

Buy an ad

>>3818607

Its an unconventional RPG, but an RPG at lasts

>>3818494 (OP)
I mean there are several things in that post that you're saying that are just factually untrue

>>3818607
There's more consequential choice in the game than most elder scrolls games (Daggerfall beats it)

>>3818610
You tell me

>>3818770
"a game like Deltarune"
Since you refused to give a definition, this is the only one we have to work with, and thus is the accepted answer.
Therefore you are incorrect.

>>3818508
>piecemeal
Does this mean release chapter wise?

Crazy how a fangame dev does better as a memeshit + an actually decent rpg than Toby did himself

>>3818494 (OP)
>How does he do it?
talent and consistent hard work

he's been playing piano, making music in fl studio, contributing stuff to homestuck, making his own romhacks and fangames with art and writing since he was a kid constantly, all the time, without stopping

if you do that for 15+ years and have all that experience and momentum starting as early as he did of course you'll be capable of making something good in your early 20s when you're at your physical and mental peak

what kind of dumb retard question is that?

>>3818772
So you don't know

>>3818766
Neither Undertale nor Deltarune have any consequential choice.

>>3818791
Undertale 2 was baller.
Zizuo's made a bunch of his own stuff as well.

>>3819037
different routes and endings aren't choices anymore?
i must've missed that real life update

>>3819057
If getting multiple endings is a roleplaying choice, then Metroid is an RPG. Crash Bandicoot is an RPG because you can miss out on the good ending by not getting all the gems.
The only consequential choice in Undertale is whether to kill or spare your first monster, after which you are locked into one of the three game modes, one of which ends in "you played the game wrong, now go back and replay it in the exact intended sequence". Once you've chosen your game mode, nothing you do influences the world, affects your character or leads to different outcomes.
I like Undertale and Deltarune, but they're walking simulators with dodging minigames that are framed as RPGs as a narrative device.

>>3819063
>Once you've chosen your game mode, nothing you do influences the world, affects your character or leads to different outcomes.
>me when i tell lies on the internet

>>3818508
>Because it's barely a game
it has more gameplay than your average JRPG
>as a game neither of his games are anything special. Nothing revolutionary or unique.
You don't need to reinvent the wheel to make a great game
And besides, the bullet hell style gameplay and the ACT system are two of the most interesting things I've seen in a turn-based RPG. Wish JRPGs had UT/DR's style of gameplay, since it would've made the bosses and enemies more memorable.

>>3819063
>The only consequential choice in Undertale is whether to kill or spare your first monster, after which you are locked into one of the three game modes
How to say you've never played Undertale without saying you haven't
>I like Undertale and Deltarune, but they're walking simulators
If they're walking sims, then every turn-based JRPG on SNES and PS1 are walking sims as well

>>3819080
you go white boy

>>3818508
are you mansplaining why another man's achievements aren't achievements at all? I guess you must have so many achievements

>>3819080
>it has more gameplay than your average JRPG
It has less RPG gameplay than even the most basic DQ clone SNES JRPGs. There is almost non-existent exploration in Undertale and very little exploration in Deltarune, character growth is explicitly an illusion, there's no resource management or tactical aspect to speak of. There's more warioware/bullet hell gameplay that takes place in a screen stylized as an RPG battle screen, sure.

>How to say you've never played Undertale without saying you haven't
Name 5 consequential choices from Undertale that aren't just whether you want to play pacifist or genocide. I guess you can hold on to the snowman piece for an extra line of dialogue. I wouldn't say that seeing what lines Sans has to say for everyone you kill in neutral really counts as a "choice" that qualifies Undertale as an "RPG" either.

>>3819080
>ask question
>have answers already prepared
????
hope he reads this, bro

>>3819080
>it has more gameplay than your average JRPG
No and being disingenuous makes you lose all credibility due to severe bias.

>You don't need to reinvent the wheel to make a great game
The point was the games aren't anything special. They have a certain audience that like the writing style and characters. That's basically it.

>>3819094
>mansplaining
you don't need to wave a flag about how you're a mentally ill woman the first thing you do

>>3819106
He already did below

>>3819105
>It has less RPG gameplay than even the most basic DQ clone SNES JRPGs.
I said GAMEPLAY, not different ways you can make numbers go up or down
>There is almost non-existent exploration in Undertale and very little exploration in Deltarune
Nothing wrong with having your game linear. Better than spending hours mindlessly running around trying to figure out how to progress.
And besides, chapter 4 requires you to do some exploration to fight the secret boss
>character growth is explicitly an illusion, there's no resource management or tactical aspect to speak of.
Not gameplay
>There's more warioware/bullet hell gameplay that takes place in a screen stylized as an RPG battle screen, sure.
Yeah, that's gameplay
>Name 5 consequential choices from Undertale that aren't just whether you want to play pacifist or genocide
Nuetral route is a thing, dumbass. It has multiple endings, but here are the five things
1. Killing Papyrus will have Sans disappear rest of the game until the judgment hall
2. Aborting genocide route at Hotland will get you an exclusive nuetral ending
3. Killing everyone but Papyrus will have him be elected as the ruler
4. Killing everyone in a nuetral route will get you the leaderless ending
5. If you kill Flowey in the first nuetral route, he won't show up in the next playthrough to kill Asgore
>inb4 it's not consequential
It's consequential enough to change the endings you get from your playthrough.
>I wouldn't say that seeing what lines Sans has to say for everyone you kill in neutral really counts as a "choice" that qualifies Undertale as an "RPG" either.
Take it to jannies if you want argue if something is RPG or not. It seems they agree that Undertale is one

>>3819107
>No and being disingenuous makes you lose all credibility due to severe bias.
How am I disingenuous?
>The point was the games aren't anything special.
And why does that matter?

>>3819136
Fine speech

>>3818494 (OP)
Even the faggiest flaming boy molesting fruit looked at your post and said "FUCK THAT'S GAY!". You should tone down the homosexuality in your posts by about 500%

>>3819215
im sorry anon but I can't tune down my homosexuality... I am a raging homosexual after all...

Honestly I can't grasp even by one percent how people played this and thought it's ''''''''''''good''''''''''''''
I'm not joking or exaggerating, lately, I feel more strongly 100% that they have been perfectly successful in the work of mass intelligence degradation through the media and it's no longer something to laugh at
this is catastrophe

>>3820029

>Oh no, someone likes something that i don't. how is this possible?

>>3820371
>Oh no, someone likes something that i don't. how is this possible?
This. Capeshitniggers should burn in eternal hellfire

>>3818614
This isn't /v/ retard

>>3820372
fpbp

>>3818494 (OP)
The peak of what? Mount stupid?

>>3819136
>Nuetral route is a thing, dumbass. It has multiple endings, but here are the five things
Nobody is even going to see those options because the best ending you can get is locked behind sparing everyone. It's not like SMT or Fallout New Vegas where the endings have some ambiguity as to which is the best, the pacifist route is objectively the correct choice.

>>3820407
>e-celeb worship thread
This board is no different from /v/.

>>3820372
based

Do you fags know that you're basically the Sonicfags of the RPG genre. Genuine question. That's what you are.

>>3821348
That's still personafags and you know it

>>3821381
kek

>>3821381
not gonna lie, best post in a while

>>3821381
Incorrect. Undertalefags and Sonicfags are interchangeable.

Its clear that the first game was just made to fund the future projects.

>>3824312
Not even sonicfags think their own games are good

>>3824618
Incorrect, every sonicfag thinks exactly one Sonic game is good, and they all perpetually war over which one it is.

>>3821348
falcomfags
atlusfags
sagafags
squarefags
hgamefags (black souls & sequel)
xenofags
(maybe FEfags, but SRPGs are niche so)