Post by Springy on Feb 27, 2024 1:53:53 GMT
Title and Subject
Undertale is a popular indie RPG created by Toby Fox. The game is about a human who falls into the Underground and has the choice to either pacify the monsters they encounter or fight and kill them. At one point in the game, Sans, a skeleton pulls out a kiddie wordsearch which contains an image of a cartoon mascot called ICE-E. The character of ICE-E is noteworthy in the fandom for his extended prevalence in Undertale's successor Deltarune.
Story of Production
Historical Importance
The historical importance of "Tobday" is the connections it has to the creator of Undertale as well as the possible influence it may have had in it's successor, Deltarune.
Undertale is a popular indie RPG created by Toby Fox. The game is about a human who falls into the Underground and has the choice to either pacify the monsters they encounter or fight and kill them. At one point in the game, Sans, a skeleton pulls out a kiddie wordsearch which contains an image of a cartoon mascot called ICE-E. The character of ICE-E is noteworthy in the fandom for his extended prevalence in Undertale's successor Deltarune.
Story of Production
On October 10th 2015, Toby Fox was gifted the ICE-E game, titled "Tobday" in the URL, by Fancy Drak ( link ). The game was written in a single day using Construct 2.
Details about the game
According to two reddit posts, the ICE-E minigame was a bit buggy (second link) and had either no solution or softlocked depending on the browser. Despite this, the game was still fun for those who played it. One of Undertale's many battle features were enemy bullet patterns that were themed to what the enemy was, for example a frog enemy would have fly bullets. So in "Tobday", ICE-E's bullet patterns featured crossword patterns. The only footage of the game I am aware of features ICE-E threatening the player that "they will never wake up" and winking, a possible hint on the game being impossible to truly beat.
Historical Importance
The historical importance of "Tobday" is the connections it has to the creator of Undertale as well as the possible influence it may have had in it's successor, Deltarune.
Why it's Lost
While archived versions of "Tobday" exist in the wayback machine, none of them are playable. The original website is also currently down, leading to a blank page. There's also no other known copies of the game, and the only way for people to have saved it would possibly be if they had downloaded the original game while it was still up.
