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toparoproject.bsky.social
Impeli
@toparoproject.bsky.social
I'm creating a Touhou-esque shmup, Toparo ~ the Forgotten Rotting Technology. Inspired by early Touhou and Len'en.

It'll be free!

Website: https://toparoproject.neocities.org/
Another WIP, but it's basically done at this point. Just something short for the title screen; unless you intentionally stick around, you'll only ever hear the first three or so seconds.

I tried for something like the music in an installer program - Remember those?
November 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Stage enemies are almost done (again), just four more to go then it's back to more important things.

This isn't a stage enemy though, I just couldn't help myself to one more midboss only character :P Last one, I swear (they only exist to fix the worlds smallest plothole).
October 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Well, can't post gifs to Twitter anymore for some reason, I suppose they'll have to be just here. At this point I might abandon Twitter, too much doesn't work anymore...

Anyway, here's a new stage enemy, needed to update some old ugly ones and thought I might as well add a bunch while I'm at it.
September 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
It's always fun to try and get just a bit more out of each audio channel; one channel echoes are pretty easy, even if they end up sounding a bit odd if you really focus on it.
August 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Waste three channels on something that could be achieved mostly the same by just one? Sure, why not.
August 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Whenever I get around to updating old and messy music I have to decide between trying to fix it or just pretending it's still usable. This is defiantly a "it's still usable" one; even after removing one of the three original channels...
June 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Work in progress or something like that. I should post more things that I'm still working on, probably wont though~
May 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
BOO!

Very scary ghost, at least that's what she thinks she is (probably).
April 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Forget the Sunsoft bass, I think I have a new obsession... Well maybe, it's not very Touhou like is it (^^;

Not to mention the fact that it's probably overall ill fitting. Oh well~
April 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
First piece of music I've finished with the MMC5 in mind from the start, here's a snippet. It's menu music even if it might be a bit much here (^^;

2:30 min loop because some people might end up in the menu for a decent while...
March 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
It's been a while since I've posted anything that wasn't a blog post; I should post some more W.I.P stuff.

Here's something for the main menu, I already know I'm going to hate shading this...

(Working on the menu sprites means that I've drawn most everything for Demo 0!)
March 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
All bullet sprites are finally almost done, should be done in another day or two at most.

There's about ~800 individual sprites as a low ball estimate (not counting recolours, that would be about ~5600). That should be enough variety I think...

Here's one I quite like:
December 20, 2024 at 11:54 AM