Toby Fox is an American indie developer and composer best known for Undertale, a 2015 role-playing game he created and scored almost entirely himself. As a child he was shaped by the RPG EarthBound, and he made fan modifications of it under the name Radiation before starting Undertale while studying at Northeastern University in Boston. He raised funds for the game through Kickstarter in 2013 and released it two years later. Its companion series Deltarune has been released in chapters since 2018, with five of seven planned chapters out as of November 2026, and Undertale is frequently ranked among the greatest video games ever made.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.