Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31981697-20170722123329/@comment-27136653-20171028175945

Why are you talking about walls and collision?

No, I meant that it is an established fact that Toby is using the Annoying Dog as his avatar. That on its own doesn't have to mean anything, the Annoying Dog in the game could just be a regular dog, but the developer room changes that. It contains so many references to Toby and his work, that it cannot be ignored. You simply cannot NOT state that the room does not reference this in particular, since then, what would be the point of that room? This is the explanation that makes the most sense. And this means that the room in particular cannot be canon, since it would create a paradox. I do not understand how changing the meaning of that room to avoid this paradox helps in any way at all.

"Toby worked on the Halloween Hack, which when patched to Earthbound, BECOMES a full game by itself, with its own story and maps."

Yes, of course Toby worked on something that wasn't a full game, but merely a hack.

" it doesn't work for Undertale - He only made the hack, not the WHOLE game"

Again, true, but this is a bad analogy. Toby didn't make the whole game (Undertale), just like he didn't make the entire game Earthbound. He didn't actually make any of it, he only added onto it. But he programmed A whole game. This was his work, Undertale was his work, so saying he programmed a whole game (Undertale) is not the same as saying he made an entire game (Earthbound) just because he made some tiny hack for it. Undertale legally belongs to him, so he can freely and proudly state that he programmed a whole game for once. Of course, he cannot say that he did it all by himself.