A Bar's Tale

Devlog

• Been away a bit...
  March 24, 2025 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  Sorry for the radio silence, but I got carried away by real life again. I lost my full time job recently, so I've been falling back on side gigs to make bills and other ends meet. This project current... Continue reading
• A taste of things to come.
  March 04, 2025 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  Here are a few spoiler scenes from the next update. Enjoy!... Continue reading

  
• NEW VERSION RELEASE 0.03!!!!
  February 28, 2025 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  Wow. I can't believe I worked for so long to create so little. Haha, anyway, this installment has 100 new renders, a lot of exposition & setup, maybe an ass or two. I promise the next update will be a... Continue reading
• Workin' my butt off...
  February 28, 2025 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  Workin' my butt off, trying to push out this new update in the next 24 hours or so. Rendering goes a little slow on my potato of a laptop, so I appreciate all the patience shown thus far. As mentioned... Continue reading

  
• About me, and the project
  February 25, 2025 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  Hey all. So for those of you that don't know, I'm just one guy, making this crazy thing. It's a lot of work. Plus I do have to work a normal job on top of all this to make ends meet, as much as I'd li... Continue reading
• COMPRESSIONNNNNNN
  February 24, 2025 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  I had NO idea compression was holding me back so much. All those huge PNGs have been converted into much smaller files, so the game is now back hosted by itch, and WAY smaller and faster to download n... Continue reading
• Midweek Progress Report
  February 19, 2025 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  Things are coming along. All scenes for the first part of the chapter are posed. Just going through the long arduous task of rendering now. After that, clean up the dialogue, and put code where it nee... Continue reading

  
• Progress:
  February 17, 2025 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  Losing my mind posing and re-posing these latest scenes. They're not even sexy. They're just chatty exposition scenes. x.x... Continue reading

  
• Chapter 2 Progress:
  February 10, 2025 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  Things are moving along. I pretty much have the scripting for Chapter 2 finished. Will make a few passes and clean up things here and there as I go. Moving onto the rendering process now, which does t... Continue reading

  
• Patreon
  February 06, 2025 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

  The Patreon has been launched! If you'd like to support me and future updates, please do. Also please join our Discord if you'd like to just hang out. https://patreon.com/exemptsoft?utm_medium=social&... Continue reading
• New Main Menu screen!
  February 05, 2025 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  Animated in game. It's really damn hard to get transparency on cigarette smoke... Continue reading

  
• In my head...
  February 01, 2025 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  So, I'm really happy with progress with A Bar's Tale, and I have 2 new ideas for games before I've barely even begun the first one. Curse of a writer, I guess. My second idea is more of a classic visu... Continue reading
• State of updates
  January 31, 2025 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  So, I will be done with my day job come Monday, and I am looking forward to thrusting all my creativity towards this project then. I'm still working on the script here and there and I am excited to ge... Continue reading
• NEW VERSION NOW AVAILABLE!
  January 24, 2025 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  I am proud to say, after a very long time, a new version is now available. Chapter 1 is now more or less complete. I still have work to do to learn and integrate animations, but the story is all there... Continue reading
• My game has grown..
  January 24, 2025 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  Shit. My game is too big and dosen't fit on itch anymore. Stand by for launch... Continue reading
• Update Status:
  January 23, 2025 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  As you can see, coding and animation implementation are my sore points. I'm thinking about hiring people to either help me with or pick up the slack in these departments... Continue reading

  
• Discord open!
  January 22, 2025 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  Discord is now back open again! It's not pretty, but I'm working on that. Come join us! https://discord.gg/THhRhQ4B5s... Continue reading
• Better news!
  January 22, 2025 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  I found a workaround using VPN so my connection to boost doesn't crash. RENDER ON!... Continue reading

  
• Another little snag.
  January 20, 2025 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  Welp. Bad news. I usually render out with boostforDaz, since my little 3060 lappy can only handle so much. However I only recently discovered that it does not support the newest Daz build that I have,... Continue reading
• The long and the short of it...
  January 17, 2025 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  Life... gets in the way some times. That's just how it is. For the past year, I've had to prioritize a paycheck, over my hobby. I never monetiized my content just yet, because I never felt it was up t... Continue reading
• An important update...
  December 03, 2023 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  Apologies for the lack of updates. Real life has been a pain in the ass and I'm finding it hard to find motivation these days. I appreciate new people filtering in and out now and again, but wanted to... Continue reading
• Slight delay.
  October 31, 2023 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  So, yeah. Real life is a bitch and didn't let me get finished in time. I do hope to finish coding and rendering to at least have the first full chapter complete by next week or the one after. Also, I'... Continue reading
• Grinding along...
  October 20, 2023 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  New update: Working along with the story on my off days from work. Doing some rendering here and there. I would say the next installment is about half done and I hope will be ready by November. In the... Continue reading
• Ver 0.02 Update
  October 10, 2023 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  #update

  Hello all! Just thought I'd post a little update here. The first scene for the finale of chapter 1 has been written and rendered and we will soon be on our way to chapter 2. I've got to say, this is a... Continue reading

  
• 24 Hour Update
  September 30, 2023 by ~EXEMPT Soft~

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  Post 24 hour update: Hello! Dev here. It's been 24 hours since the demo launched and I have to say I'm pretty happy with the results so far. What I have given you is only a little taste of the setting... Continue reading