Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31981697-20170722123329/@comment-27136653-20171021204201

Fanfictions copy canon information and envelope it in headcanons. Toby is doing the same oftentimes, which is why he said that his tweets aren't canon. Since most of them are just jokes. But this doesn't change the fact that even though it's one big joke, the annoying dog became canonical in the game. You can't go against the wishes of the creator, you can't just say the Annoying Dog doesn't represent Toby. If anything, that is your headcanon. But the truth is, that the dog isn't canon to the story itself, since logically it doesn't work. You're just trying to MAKE it canon by constructing a headcanon, which breaks the canon that the dog represents Toby. I instead preserve that fact by pulling the entire scene out of the canon story, which preserves the story's logic, just like your headcanon does. But, unlike it, it keeps the canon information canon.

And the artbook isn't just canon to itself, it also provides useful information about the game, which of course isn't "canon", since it's outside information that isn't even a part of the story, but about the story and the game itself, but it can STILL be used as a valid argument when discussing the game. And so can the story booklet, which includes improved drawings of the intro scenes.

" Therefore, Guzusuru helped with the programming"

No. Guzusuru drew  the art. Temmie too drew some of the sprites. But they themselves did not animate them (they didn't program them to move), therefore, they aren't programmers. But they are still developers. But that's not what the flavor text said, it said that the dog programmed  the entire game. And that is true.