{"id":49540,"date":"2025-06-30T13:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T04:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=49540"},"modified":"2025-06-30T15:00:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T06:00:44","slug":"toby-fox-reveals-early-deltarune-concepts-that-show-how-much-of-the-game-was-already-conceived-10-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/toby-fox-reveals-early-deltarune-concepts-that-show-how-much-of-the-game-was-already-conceived-10-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Toby Fox reveals early Deltarune concepts that show how much of the game was already conceived 10 years ago\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Now that fans have had ample time to play <strong>Deltarune Chapters 1-4<\/strong>, creator Toby Fox is slowly divulging more behind-the-scenes development details. He already revealed his <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/toby-fox-reveals-early-deltarune-character-sketches-from-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first-ever sketches of Susie, Ralsei, and Noelle<\/a> (circa 2015) as well as his original <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/deltarunes-tenna-was-created-all-the-way-back-in-2016-but-toby-fox-abandoned-his-tremendously-bad-3d-prototype\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Kinect rotoscope ideas for what would become Tenna<\/a> (circa 2016). Now, Fox is posting less edited versions of past concept art and text documents, which feature lines used in Chapters 3 and 4.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now that we&#39;ve gotten to Chapter 4, I can finally post a less edited version of this concept art which features such long-awaited lines as &quot;He goes to another school&quot; and &quot;bottled water?&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NdOjmzmPIX\">https:\/\/t.co\/NdOjmzmPIX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5npsiXEONo\">pic.twitter.com\/5npsiXEONo<\/a><\/p>&mdash; tobyfox (@tobyfox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tobyfox\/status\/1939307524442017864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Though Fox posted <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tobyfox\/status\/1063270097110949888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the same concept art in 2018<\/a>, he purposely omitted specific lines such as \u201cBottled\u2026 water\u2026?\u201d, \u201cHe goes to another school!\u201d, and \u201cI hope it makes you worry a little less.\u201d While some lines are crucial to Deltarune&#8217;s story, <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/deltarunes-among-us-reference-jokingly-removed-by-toby-fox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">others set up jokes<\/a> that Fox conceived almost ten years ago. Given that the file name for the concept art is \u201cTHE FUN GANG\u201d (a possible name choice for Kris, Susie, Ralsei, and Lancer\u2019s group), it goes to show how far in advance Fox had mapped out certain aspects of Deltarune.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-bluesky-social wp-block-embed-bluesky-social\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:vshnclkqqguyg6xcz6q7g65k\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lsqs5ild5c2u\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreid4o54guvjsh72xx3rj2y764q3emcsajlpa6h3nm42ppvz6ug5dim\"><p lang=\"en\">I&#39;m looking through what I think is the oldest text document about DELTARUNE that I can find. This is one of the first facts about Susie. Even though this has never happened in the game, everyone just intuitively understands this as true. I won.<\/p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:vshnclkqqguyg6xcz6q7g65k?ref_src=embed\">tobyfox (@tobyfox.undertale.com)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:vshnclkqqguyg6xcz6q7g65k\/post\/3lsqs5ild5c2u?ref_src=embed\">2025-06-29T13:38:31.378Z<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Over on Bluesky, Fox posted one of the first facts he ever wrote about Susie, which is that she rests her chin on your (Kris\u2019s) head. While this has yet to happen in Deltarune, Susie\u2019s height in relation to Kris\u2019s makes this interaction possible. Considering Susie&#8217;s free-spirited nature (despite no longer being a bully), fans can definitely see this happening in the future. Expect more early and less edited Deltarune concepts from Fox as more chapters get released.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deltarune Chapters 1-4 is now available for Nintendo Switch 1 and 2, PC (macOS and Windows), and PlayStation 4 and 5. Chapter 5 is set to be released sometime in 2026.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toby Fox is posting less edited versions of past Deltarune concept art and text documents, which feature lines used in Chapters 3 and 4.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":49544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-49540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie-games","category-news","tag-global-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Toby Fox reveals early Deltarune concepts that show how much of the game was already conceived 10 years ago\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Toby Fox is posting less edited versions of past Deltarune concept art and text documents, which feature lines used in Chapters 3 and 4.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/toby-fox-reveals-early-deltarune-concepts-that-show-how-much-of-the-game-was-already-conceived-10-years-ago\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Toby Fox reveals early Deltarune concepts that show how much of the game was already conceived 10 years ago\u00a0 - 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