History VideoGame / TSUnderswap

The game started development in GameMaker: Studio in 2016, and swapped to GameMaker: Studio 2 in 2019. The first official was released on December 23, 2020 on Windows, Mac[[note]]Though as of the December 2023 devlog, Team Switched has suspended plans to support TS!Underswap for Apple platforms[[/note]], Linux, and Android for free. In December 2023, [[https://gamejolt.com/p/dev-update-december-2023-pncxfiut Team Switched made a surprise announcement for]] the release of Demo v2.0 scheduled for January 2024, an update making Starlight Isles[[note]]the second main area and counterpart to Snowdin[[/note]] playable.

The game started development in GameMaker: Studio in 2016, and swapped to GameMaker: Studio 2 in 2019. An official demo was released on December 23, 2020 on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android for free. You can download the demo and follow the game's progress on Gamejolt [[https://gamejolt.com/games/tsunderswap/160094 here]].

Team Switched [[https://gamejolt.com/p/progress-report-march-2021-teasers-design-reveals-and-more-3w549iub announced]] that they currently plan to release a new demo featuring the next two areas once they're completed.

One major difference from vanilla Underswap is that ''TS!Underswap'' aims to swap the characters but '''not''' their personalities, along the same lines as fellow ''Undertale'' role swap fan projects ''Webcomic/{{Storyshift}}'' and ''Webcomic/InvertedFate''. Meant to be "a brand new experience for fans of UNDERTALE," ''TS!Underswap'' also tries to [[JustForPun switch]] things up by using expanded and reimagined areas and introducing new characters and original plot elements. Something else to note is that there are four routes instead of three;

The game started development in GameMaker: Studio in 2016, and [[JustForPun swapped]] to GameMaker: Studio 2 in 2019. An official demo was released on December 23, 2020 on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android for free. You can download the demo and follow the game's progress on Gamejolt [[https://gamejolt.com/games/tsunderswap/160094 here]].

** The Game Over screen is a homage to VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}, with the protagonist lying in a beam of light and the game calling their death "a bad dream".

* Frisk and Chara
* Flowey and Temmie
* Toriel and Asgore

* Napstablook and Mettaton
* Sans and Papyrus

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: All the monsters in Old Ruins love Asgore for helping them with their daily lives. When a monster attacks you when he's around, Asgore will simply say hello and tell them that he's in the middle of something with Chara, with said monster apologizing and going away.

* CoolOldGuy: Asgore, now a older boss monster wearing glasses and [[https://tsunderswapofficial.fandom.com/wiki/Asgore?file=Older_asgore.png a little ponytail]]. He plays guitar as a hobby, has a OneHundredPercentAdorationRating from the monsters, and is a really gentle and sweet guy who just wants to take care of Chara. He is also still very much a badass.

* TeamDad: Asgore to all the other monsters in Ruined Home, who talk about him in [[OneHundredPercentAdorationRating glowing]] terms. Judging from the graffiti NPC's comments and the phone call you can make to him about the Greasers, he also seems to have a hand in keeping the younger monsters on the straight and narrow. Bugerpant lampshades this trope, saying he's like everyone's dad and telling Chara to be good to him.

** "Fuzzy Friend", Temmie's {{Leitmotif}}, contains references to "Temmie Room" and "Lonely Girl's Room", two songs from the real Temmie Chang's short game, VideoGame/EscapedChasm (which Toby Fox also made the music for).

''TS!Underswap'', or ''Team Switched!Underswap'', is a fangame of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' that is currently under development by Team Switched. It's based on their own version of the extremely popular RoleSwapAU known as Underswap.

** Asgore and Toriel are a downplayed example. Since Asriel is still alive, they've continued to age. Asgore now wears a pair of glasses for his worsening eyesight.
** Asriel himself, since he missed the fate his ''Undertale'' counterpart met as a child. He is [[https://tsunderswapofficial.tumblr.com/post/183016474905/quick-question-for-the-team-how-will-asriel-be stated]] to now be a young adult.

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One major difference from vanilla Underswap is that ''TS!Underswap'' aims to swap the characters but '''not''' their personalities, along the same lines as fellow ''Undertale'' role swap fan projects ''Webcomic/{{Storyshift}}'' and ''Webcomic/InvertedFate''. Meant to be "a brand new experience for fans of UNDERTALE," ''TS!Underswap'' also tries to [[JustForPun switch]] things up by using expanded and reimagined areas and introducing new characters and original plot elements. Some else to note is that there are four routes;

** The song "A Place To Call Home" uses instruments from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina Of Time]]'' ''/'' ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]].''

** The song "A Place To Call Home" uses instruments from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' / ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask.''

** The Mad Dummy's first appearance is heralded with the word "DUMMY!!" appearing across the screen as an UnsoundEffect, a nod to the ゴゴゴ text in Anime/JojosBizarreAdventure.
** The Game Over screen is a homage to VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}, with the protagonist lying in a beam of light and the game calling their death "a bad dream".

* StoryBranching: According to Team Swapped, there are four routes instead of three.
** Neutral, when you only fight when nes

** Genocide, when you exhaust
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One major difference from vanilla Underswap is that ''TS!Underswap'' aims to swap the characters but '''not''' their personalities, along the same lines as fellow ''Undertale'' role swap fan projects ''Webcomic/{{Storyshift}}'' and ''Webcomic/InvertedFate''. Meant to be "a brand new experience for fans of UNDERTALE," ''TS!Underswap'' also tries to [[JustForPun switch]] things up by using expanded and reimagined areas and introducing new characters and original plot elements.

* AdaptationNameChange: In the Demo, Mettaton is changed to Metacrit, while Burgerpants is changed to [[MyNaymeIs Bugerpant]].

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Blink and you'll miss it, but when Chara is getting up after falling in the beginning, there's a moment where only one eye is visible and it's bright red, [[MythologyGag reminiscent of]] their canon counterpart's eyes glowing red in [[spoiler:the Soulless Pacifist ending]] and [[spoiler:Kris' eyes being red]] in Chapter 1's ending for ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}''. Once Chara straightens up, they have normal dark brown eyes for the rest of the demo.

--->[[spoiler:''[[WhamLine I didn't say that.]]''\\

** And immediately afterwards;
--->[[spoiler:'''Flowey:''' ''(Looks at Chara being surrounded by Temmies)'' Am I interrupting something? You seem kinda... busy.]]

* EvilVsEvil: Temmie wants to work with Genocide Chara just like Flowey did in the original game, only here they find out a lot quicker that Chara isn't interested in being friends.

* AdaptationExpansion: The Ruins has more areas to explore, including new puzzles and an entire new city. You can talk to way more monsters in the Ruins overworld, there as more minibosses for the area, and new features (like the journal you can keep notes about monsters in, and sidequests to earn extra gold) to dig into.
* AdaptationNameChange: In the Demo, Mettaton is changed to Metacrit, while Burgerpants is changed to [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Bugerpant]].

* AmbiguousSituation: Whether it is [[spoiler:the player or Frisk compelling Chara to leave the Ruins]]. Since Chara and Frisk are swapped, it would make sense for Frisk [[spoiler:to have more of a presence in Neutral and Pacifist like how Chara has more of a presence in Genocide]], but statements from Team Switched indicates the [[spoiler:player may be an InUniverse force and since '''we''' want to progress the game by leaving the Ruins...]]

** When you reach the end of the puzzle gauntlet, there will be a door that takes you back to the beginning of the ruins. Reaching the City of Old will make another door available as well. These serve as a way to visit earlier areas without having to backtrack all the way through the ruins (especially since the bridge to the city gets broken).

* ButThouMust: PlayedForHorror when Chara [[spoiler:is scared by how they are railroaded into asking how to leave the Ruins when they just want to stay]].

** [[spoiler:Chara's dialogue options in Neutral and Pacifist show they want to stay with Asgore and are confused and scared when the dialogue keeps changing to them pressing him on how to leave the Ruins, with them trying to plead for help by the end. Regardless of whatever [[AmbiguousSituation the possessing entity's]] intentions are, it's clear that Chara is frightened all the same]].

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: The Justice SOUL and implicitly the other fallen humans. Chara finds the Justice SOUL's Cowboy Hat and Toy Gun in the Ruins instead of the Patience SOUL's items, when in ''Undertale'' the Justice SOUL's items were found by Bratty and Catty in the dump at Waterfall. Obviously Justice didn't make it that far in their journey across the Underground in this world.

* KidnappedByTheCall: [[spoiler:Happens to Chara in the Pacifist route, with them forced by a force controlling them to leave a happy life with Asgore in the Ruins.]]
* TheLeader: Asgore. He may not be the official mayor of Old Ruins, but his unfaltering kindness in helping monsters with their problems, as well as said monster's makes him this

** The Mad Dummy takes a few cues from Undyne in ''Undertale'', making Chara fall off a bridge in the Ruins and chasing them with projectiles in a CallBack to Undyne chasing Frisk with spears and making them fall off a bridge in Waterfall. They are also just as unreasonable in hating Chara no matter what they did in the tutorial, the same as they were with whatever Frisk did in the tutorial with their cousin and like Undyne justifying her attacking Frisk with different excuses depending on the route.

* RecurringBoss: Downplayed with the Mad Dummy. We haven't actually fought them yet (unless you count the tutorial), but they reappear to chase Chara through the Ruins and will likely show up for another fight in the full game since they haven't settled the score by the time Chara leaves the Ruins.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Blink and you'll miss it, but when Chara gets up after falling in the beginning, their eye is shown to be bright red before becoming dark-brown.

* AdaptationExpansion: The Ruins has more areas to explore, including new puzzles and an entire new city. You can talk to way more monstersf in the Ruins overworld, there as more minibosses for the area, and new features (like the journal you can keep notes about monsters in, and sidequests to earn extra gold) to dig into.

One major difference from vanilla Underswap is that ''TS!Underswap'' aims to swap the characters but '''not''' their personalities, along the same lines as fellow ''Undertale'' role swap fan projects ''Webcomic/{{Storyshift}}'' and ''Webcomic/InvertedFate''. ''TS!Underswap'' also introduces other original concepts to make the game more unique, like "swapping" the areas in ''Undertale'' and introducing new monsters and original plot elements.

* FaceFramedInShadow: Chara's face becomes covered by a shadow once Genocide is triggered, hiding their eyes.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Blink and you'll miss it, but when Chara gets up after falling in the begining, their eye is shown to be bright red before becoming dark-brown.

* WhamLine: Done after reaching the end of Ruined Home, where you encounter Temmie again;

* OrWasItADream: Implied if you flee the battle with Asgore and take a nap in the bed. Chara's narration states that the next day, they woke up to Asgore bringing them a slice of pie and they spend the day together comfortably, but Chara describes still feeling compelled to leave. Chara then wakes up and everything is the same as you left it, with Asgore still out in the garden. It's never explicitly said to be a dream, but given that Asgore doesn't reference the day Chara described (and he isn't able to bake pies without burning them), it was likely just Chara dreaming.