Megalomania is an obsession with power and wealth,and a passion for grand schemes.
Homestuck is an Internet fiction series created by American author and artist Andrew Hussie. The fourth and best-known of Hussie's four MS Paint Adventures,it originally ran from April 13,2009 to April 13,2016. Though normally described as a webcomic,and partly constituted by a series of single panel pages,Homestuck also relied heavily on Flash animations and instant message logs to convey its story,along with occasional use of browser games.
MS Paint Adventures,abbreviated MSPAdventures or MSPA,was a website and collection of webcomics written and illustrated by Andrew Hussie. According to some estimates,in April 2016 MS Paint Adventures was the largest collection of comics on the Internet,containing over 10,000 pages among its five series.
Hiveswap is an episodic adventure game developed by What Pumpkin Games and overseen by Andrew Hussie and Cohen Edenfield. Based in the universe of Hussie's MS Paint Adventures webcomic Homestuck,it focuses on a girl,Joey Claire,who is accidentally transported to the planet of Alternia—home of the troll species seen in Homestuck.
The 1994 video game EarthBound is known for its cult following and fan community. Multiple video game journalists have written about the dedication of the game's fans in producing fan art and lobbying Nintendo for further releases in the series. The company has been largely unresponsive to their efforts. Prominent fansites include Starmen.net and EarthBound Central. The former was started in 1999 and became the definitive community website. Their members organized petitions and campaigns to bring English-localized games from the Mother series to North America. One such effort included a full-color,270-page EarthBound Anthology as a demonstration of consumer demand for further releases. After nearly a decade,EarthBound was rereleased for the Wii U Virtual Console in 2013,whereupon it became a bestseller.
Fangamer LLC is an American video game merchandising company and game publisher based in Tucson,Arizona. Fangamer was originally spun out from Starmen.net,an EarthBound online forum. It operates an online store that sells licensed indie game merchandise items such as hats,pins,vinyl records,t-shirts and other products. In recent years the company has also begun publishing physical editions of independent video games.
Undertale is a 2015 2D role-playing video game created by American indie developer Toby Fox. The player controls a child who has fallen into the Underground:a large,secluded region under the surface of the Earth,separated by a magical barrier. The player meets various monsters during the journey back to the surface,although some monsters might engage the player in a fight. The combat system involves the player navigating through mini-bullet hell attacks by the opponent. They can opt to pacify or subdue monsters in order to spare them instead of killing them. These choices affect the game,with the dialogue,characters,and story changing based on outcomes.
Robert F. "Toby" Fox is an American video game developer and composer. He is best known for developing the role-playing video game Undertale,which garnered acclaim and has received nominations for a British Academy Game Award,three Game Awards and D.I.C.E. Awards. He is also the creator and head of the ongoing development of Deltarune,which contains many characters and features from Undertale,and has also garnered significant praise.
The 2009 webcomic Homestuck,written and drawn by Andrew Hussie,currently holds a soundtrack consisting of 30 digital albums. Besides static images,Homestuck makes use of flash animations and games,which often involve background music. The music of Homestuck is composed by fans,but is published by Hussie through his Bandcamp page under the What Pumpkin record label. Hussie established a small "Music Contribution Team" for the webcomic,which is coordinated by Toby Fox.
Asgore Dreemurr is a character in the 2015 video game Undertale developed by Toby Fox,and its 2018 spiritual sequel Deltarune. The king of the Underground,he is a special type of creature known as a Boss Monster and serves as the penultimate boss of the game. Having previously killed six other humans as part of a plan to break an ancient Barrier created to entrap the Underground's denizens,he intends to take the protagonist's soul as the final one,freeing the monsters and getting revenge on the humans for killing his son,Asriel. He was created by Fox,with support from artist Temmie Chang.
Toriel Dreemurr is a character introduced in the 2015 role-playing video game Undertale,acting as the first area boss. A motherly figure created as an embodiment of excessive video game tutorials,she is a member of the monster race with hanging ears,small horns,white fur,and a purple robe. The player can choose to kill her or convince her to stop fighting,which affects the way the story plays out. She also appears in Deltarune in a different role.
Deltarune is an episodic role-playing video game developed by Toby Fox as a follow-up to his 2015 video game Undertale. In the game,the player controls a human teenager,Kris,who is destined to save the world together with Susie,a monster,and Ralsei,a prince from the Dark World. During their quest to seal the Dark Fountains prophesied to end the world,the group makes both friends and foes. The combat system is turn-based and uses bullet hell mechanics. Similarly to Undertale,enemy encounters can be resolved peacefully or through violence.
Sans is a character in the 2015 video game Undertale. He is the brother of Papyrus and initially appears as a friendly NPC with an easy-going,laid-back personality. Sans is also featured in the 2018 video game Deltarune,where he can only be found at his shop,which is a remodeled version of Grillby's Diner from the original game. Sans was created by Toby Fox with support from the artist Temmie Chang. The character's name is based on the Comic Sans font,which is used for most of his in-game dialogue. This sans typeface was replaced with a "cutesy irreverent typeface" in the Japanese version of the game.
The music of Deltarune comprises multiple soundtrack albums created and scored by Toby Fox. The first soundtrack album was released on Bandcamp on November 1,2018,a day after the game was launched. In collaboration with Fangamer,Fox released the first chapter's soundtrack on vinyl in 2019.
Undertale Soundtrack is a soundtrack album by Toby Fox,released in 2015 for the video game Undertale.
Undyne is a character in the 2015 video game Undertale and the 2018 video game Deltarune. She is a monster who serves as the captain of the Royal Guard of the Underground under its king,Asgore. She is initially an antagonist to the player-character,the human,but depending on the human's actions,she may become their ally. She is reluctant to befriend the human,but through persistence by the player,eventually realizes that they were a good person. If the human makes a point of killing every monster possible,Undyne will transform into Undyne the Undying,vowing to destroy the human in order to save humans,monsters,and all other life from their actions. She is a lesbian,revealed to be in love with Alphys.
W.D. Gaster,or simply Gaster,is a character from the 2015 video game Undertale who was the previous "royal scientist" for the game's underground kingdom of monsters before he vanished mysteriously. He cannot normally be encountered in the game,and is never discussed directly as part of the game's main narrative. Players can only encounter events related to him either by luck or by modifying certain game files. A sprite from one of these events,internally named "Mystery Man",is generally used to portray W.D. Gaster,though the sprite's connection to the character is not confirmed.
Undertale Yellow is a 2023 2D role-playing video game released on Game Jolt for Microsoft Windows on December 9,2023. Developed by Team Undertale Yellow as a fan-made prequel to Undertale,the game follows a human child named Clover,who possesses the yellow soul from Undertale,as they journey on an unfamiliar path to the surface after entering the monster-inhabited Underground. The game received generally positive reviews upon release.
Papyrus is a character introduced in the 2015 video game Undertale. He is a skeleton with a large ego who aspires to join the Royal Guard,and also the brother of Sans and friend of Undyne. He is eternally optimistic,and despite wanting to capture the human to prove himself,finds himself befriending the human instead. He does not appear in Deltarune,but has been alluded to. He was created by Toby Fox with support from Temmie Chang. He was originally envisioned as a creepy person who wears a fedora and has no redeeming qualities,though Fox did not like this idea,so he scrapped it. His character communicates with the Papyrus typeface,which had to be changed to a "faux hand-drawn vertical script" when translated into Japanese.
In online fandoms,a Tumblr Sexyman is a type of fictional character that gains wide popularity as a sex symbol. Characters described as Tumblr Sexymen are typically villainous or otherwise unusual,although the criteria for what qualifies as a Tumblr Sexyman varies greatly. The phenomenon is named after the website Tumblr,from which it originated,although Tumblr Sexymen have also gained popularity on other social media platforms such as Twitter.
