I'm listening to one of my Pandora stations, when a song from Undertale comes on. I have no clue how this happened, as I wasn't aware video game music was on Pandora at all.
How the fuck is Undertale's soundtrack on Pandora?
Also, how much money do you think Toby has made since the game's release? This has to be money on top of money at this point. He's already literally a millionaire.
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What song was it?
Hopes and Dreams
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He's made at least $3 million from the game alone.
From official merchandise, it could be an extra $100,000 easy.
Don't forget, he sold the soundtrack separately. So imagine the money he made off that.
Wait, he made merch?
Sold through Fangamer.
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He licensed out the game for t-shirts and plushies ans stickers and pins.
I own a t-shirt.
which one?
the shirt with the ghost is pretty ok, rest is trash
Delta rune in purple. Nobody knows where it's from. Even most nerds think it's a Hylian shield design. One girl asked me what it means. It's very subtle, but also nice looking.
Ive been listening to megalovania for weeks now and only the other day did I realize it was from undertale.
megolovania is way older than undertale
Technically it was in Toby's Earthbound romhack and in Homosuck before it was in Undertale
>Delta rune in purple. Nobody knows where it's from.
That's honestly kind of depressing seeing as how many people claim to love Undertale but can't recognize a symbol that's not only shown multiple times in the game but explicitly has a character draw your attention to it for exposition. Guess video game apparel needs to have the subtlety of "THE CAKE IS A LIE xD" for it to get recognized.
>tfw can play piano but can't compose
>tfw even if I could compose I'm too nervous about unintentionally ripping off a song that already exists
Tried humming a melody and thought it sounded good, but found out yesterday it's basically part of Metal Slug 5 Mission 2.
Even the melody I've currently come up with is literally the first 7 notes of the Nokia ringtone looping as the harmony.
How to into chiptune composition?
I need to preorder that MTT-brand desktop rectangular enchantment.
While Undertale is fairly popular for an indie title, it's still not popular enough for widespread recognition.
There was one guy I passed on the street who focused on my shirt with the look of recognition in his eyes. But that's about it. I'm not sure if he knew.
But I like the fact that it's not overtly recognizable. I'm getting older, and I kind of what to get away from looking like the virgin in video game attire.
Learn chord progressions
And dont fear ripping of songs you know, it will happen you like it or not, you wont even realize until later, try to change the tempo or something, but even then, it really doesnt matter
I got two undertale shirts (napstablook and the sans one) but ive never been asked about them because i dont go outside but that said i probably dont want anybody to recognise it otherwise theyll realise how much of a faggot i am for loving undertale
>people actually like this auditory diarrhea
My issue is I don't know how to into other instruments. I used FL Studio to try to make something but I don't know how to make a good drum beat or bass line.
I actually despise the Undertale fanbase for this reason. There are so many explicit and implicit details hidden away throughout the course of the game that these faggots NEVER acknowledge that it's sickening.
>Every enemy in the game, par SOME bosses, fights you with either purely white attacks, or some faded blue or faded orange attacks
>They are all completely white
>Even Undyne, both pre and post Determination, is completely white, with some blue attacks
>At this point, seeing color seems to only represent how you yourself react to an attack
>Happen upon Asgore, who outright destroys an element of the UI, and his spear is bright red
>Later Flowey, who in his bizarre, otherworldly mess of an appearance, is an amalgam of odd, ill-fitting geometrical shapes with a wide variety of colors throughout
>Finally Asriel, who is a flaring rainbow of color from the start of his fight to the end
>Literally none of the fans pay mention to this when Sans's fight happens, and his gaze alone is blue/yellow
>doesn't like Hopes and Dreams
It's not one of my favorite tracks form the game. In fact, I know it's kind of bad. But when you're in the context of the game, it gets you hyped.
>hates a fanbase for not noticing minutia
What are you getting at, user?
I love both Undertale and its soundtrack, but I can't help the feeling that the actual compositions aren't that impressive. Don't get me wrong, they are very effective and competent, and Toby is an incredibly talented guy, but they still strike me as somewhat derivative.
For example, I love His Theme and all the variations of it, and it's used brilliantly to pull on your heart strings, but it's really nothing more advanced than a basic 4/4 ditty in the D# major scale, looped over and over, with a ascending and descending major scale as a bass line.
I know complexity doesn't equal quality, but it's really not all that different from pop ballads that we've listened to for decades already.
uhuh, and what do you think the significance of this is?
...what? I thought his eyes flare as homage to cave story's true final boss
The game uses blue and orange for attacks that respectively require freezing in place or continuous motion. I always assumed Toby chose blue and orange because they are opposite colors of one another, meaning they are very easy to tell apart. Same with the Portal games and the blue and orange portals.
If there is a deeper meaning to the repeated use of blue and orange in the fights, then it is lost on me.
His gaze flares up when he's "cheating", either by manipulating gravity or reversing time when you get close to the attack button/left wall at the end. There's no ulterior motive to his eyes flashing.
I hate you also.
Also, blue is a cold color. Which we associate with ice, and stillness. Orange is a warm color we associate with fire and motion.
The most basic of color theory.
Ironically, blue is actually hot as fuck. A blue star is way hotter than an orange star, same with blue and orange flames.
what station where you listening to that you didn't realize that this type of music was on pandora. Also
>pandora
What's a better alternative to Pandora? I'm open to suggestions. I simply don't want to think about the music that the station plays. But I want it varied enough that I don't get bored of it in only an hour.
I was listening to my own station. I set a handful of artists and song as seeds, and then pandora picks the music from there. Artists I have seeded are:
Daft Punk
Savant
Shanghai Restoration Project
Capital Cities
Glitchmob
Ronald Jenkees
Justice
The Avalances
>The Avalanches
THAT BOY NEEDS THERAPY
I mean like spotify has a bigger selection of artists, especially ones who only have music on bandcamp or soundcloud plus you're able to listen to a song, album or artist directly while still making a radio station out of it.
I don't know if pandora pro or whatever lets you do that. There's a free version of spotify also btw. My only experience with pandora having to use it at work and I'd honestly rather not
I don't know what Pandora pro has. Never tried it. But what I really want, is something like a "mood" feature. Sometimes I'm feeling high energy, and then the station starts playing a bunch of chill songs in a row. Or I'm in a chill mood, and the station plays a bunch of high energy songs in a row. I wish there was a button to press to shift moods.
i get what you are saying, still his stuff are pretty good, especially for someone who is self taught
I also believe the main reason his songs have such an impact on people is because the songs combined with the moments people had from the game create this memory of a theme of an idea, and when you listen to the music alone, you remember the same feeling from the game
Even more ironically glowing things emit light and it's called black-body radiation.
I prefer the Flowey's version