It's Autumn! You know what that means...!

Newsletter art and sprites by Temmie!

It's UNDERTALE's 8th Anniversary!

Sadly, I don't have much energy for a wild and crazy event this year. Doing a newsletter every three months is a bit like celebrating the anniversary all year.

In other words, this year, I just want to go to sleep!

In celebration of this, Fangamer has created commemorative UNDERTALE sleepy-themed goods.

20% of each shirt or blanket preorder goes to charity, benefiting AbleGamers. I'm sure you need another T-shirt to use as pajamas, don't you?

On a more serious note, thank you all very much everyone who's reading this! It means an immense amount that so many people have continued to care about this series over the years.

We are continuing to work on Chapter 3! The Chapter got playable from beginning to end. After some restructuring and reshuffling of different parts, it's feeling quite good to go through. Can't say it's finished yet, but the unfinished parts are certainly seeming less and less numerous. That's good because try as I might to sleep, until the game is finished, I'll see nothing but nightmares...

Earlier, we were considering having a stealth-focused section in the game where you would slowly, slowly sneak around certain areas.

After developing some concepts, we realized a mechanic which basically just makes you move slower isn't necessarily fun.

So, we didn't do that...

Anyway, feel free to listen to this song since it's now unused.

So, it's been announced...!

ZUN, the creator of TOUHOU PROJECT and I have created a musical track together! Our track will appear in the officially sanctioned Touhou series fan-game, Touhou Danmaku Kagura: Phantasia Lost!

If you didn't see my official announcement video about it, feel free to check it out here!

If you're not aware, Touhou is a game series where anime girls shoot gorgeous bullet patterns at each other while extremely beautiful Eurobeat-inspired Japanese music plays in the background. This great series has been a huge inspiration to me even since I was in Elementary school. It's no exaggeration to say that the Touhou series is the sole reason that UNDERTALE and DELTARUNE have a bullet-based battle system.

Not only that, but the instruments in Undyne's music are a direct reference to the game as well! Which... makes it kind of amazing that more than half of the track ended up being a remix of Undyne's music by ZUN himself! Talk about a dream come true!

This announcement video aired on a live Touhou Danmaku Kagura stream! The stream was actually quite cool, featuring live performances by many famous Touhou fan musicians, and even featuring ZUN himself as an MC!

Also… I was there in the audience!

Hello! It's Nelnal, the character designer in charge of Sweet, Cap'n, K_K, and Tasque Manager in DELTARUNE Chapter 2. I can't contain my surprise at how quickly two years have passed since Chapter 2 released.

When DELTARUNE Chapter 1 was released, I was just one of the millions of fans of Toby's work. I still remember so clearly how completely dumbstruck I felt after receiving a work request from Toby…

I've been involved in a variety of design jobs, but the assignments I received for DELTARUNE were so much fun! It was the first time I've had work where, from the very moment I read the assignment, my mind became filled with ideas one after another.

I was asked to draw a character based on a "boom box" theme, so I gave Toby three designs to choose from. (The truth is I made other designs too, but that's a secret.)

To my surprise, in the end he decided to use all three...! I was so delighted!

And so...I'm proud to announce that I was tasked with illustrating some new merch for this upbeat trio!

Among the merch are some new stickers, so it'd be great if you could stick them on instruments, speakers, and other music-related gear and enjoy the sound together with them. More details will be announced later this month!

By the way, as a small side note, it seems like the trio's favorite musical genres are dubstep for Sweet, electro for K_K, and hip-hop for Cap'n.

A certain company we work with sent this as potential promotional text for some products of the characters from UNDERTALE

"[With these products in your collection], you'll never explore the underground again"!

... I'll… never explore it again?

What are they gonna do... to me?

Thanks, everyone! See you next year for the next UNDERTALE Anniversary!

Undertale physically came out for Xbox.