News
This is a collection of all important news and dates related to the Toparo Project as well as TALENA itself. All information on this page is believed to be correct however, it may have been misremembered slightly, when the exact date is not known the relevant part of the date will be replaced with “??”. Dates that read “??/??/??” are entirely unknown and are placed before/after associated events.
2024
01/10/24:
New blog post: State of Decay #1.
28/09/24:
Impeli created a Bluesky account.
04/09/24:
The release of There Once Was A Monster In Wonderland marked the official debut of the Toparo Project!
04/09/24:
New story: There Once Was A Monster In Wonderland.
04/09/24:
The Beta version of the Toparo Project website was “finished” and made public.
31/08/24:
Work began on making the Beta version of the Toparo Project website.
15/08/24:
The TALENA logo was redesigned.
17/05/24:
The Alpha version of the Toparo Project website was created and made public.
24/03/24:
The unnamed music album officially became its own game: Toparo ~ the Forgotten Rotting Technology. Toparo ~ the Brilliant Shining Light was indefinitely pushed back.
19/03/24:
An unnamed music album began production.
01/03/24:
TALENA celebrated its second anniversary!
01/02/24:
The first gameplay of Toparo ~ the Brilliant Shining Light after the restart was shown off on Impeli’s YouTube account.
2023
01/12/23:
Every five days throughout December, work in progress music from Toparo ~ the Brilliant Shining Light was shared on Impeli’s YouTube account.
22/08/23:
Impeli began posting at least one monthly update about the Toparo Project.
03/07/23:
Impeli posted a video showcasing the November 2022 proof of concept, marking the first (surviving) public appearance of the Toparo Project.
??/??/??:
Impeli created a YouTube account.
??/06/23:
Development on Toparo ~ the Brilliant Shining light had restarted.
??/04/23:
Arcodan and Arcopa ended development; over this time the Toparo Project had undergone a lot of rethinking.
01/03/23:
TALENA celebrated its first anniversary!
??/01/23:
Development on two small games was started for the purpose of improving Impeli’s programming skills.
2022
??/11/22:
A proof of concept build of Toparo ~ the Brilliant Shining Light was completed, providing Impeli the proof to know that making a video game alone is feasible.
??/07/22:
Impeli created a Twitter account.
25/06/22:
After a few months of experimentation, the idea to make a shmup was decided upon, birthing the Toparo Project in its modern form.
??/03/22:
Impeli began to learn how to code/compose etc and started TALENA’s first video game production.
??/??/??:
TALEMA was renamed to TALENA due to the logo looking far more like the latter.
??/03/22:
TALEMA was formed by Impeli.
2014-2022:
Impeli drafted many, many, many ideas and concepts for a “hypothetical” video game. Some ideas/concepts/characters from this era would end up in the Toparo Project.