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What's qDot Up To This Week? (2020-08-31 Edition)

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A surprisingly busy week!

A request to get the GHR working with Fall Guys yesterday meant a new release. Had to fix up some issues with DLL hooking, but I think they're now finally fixed once and for all. This may require retesting of some games that had haptics but didn't seem to work with the GHR initially.

On top of that, I added simple rotation support! So if you've got a Lovense Nora, Vorze Cyclone or UFO, etc, the vibration speed will now translate to rotation speed.

Intiface Desktop

The update of Intiface Desktop to support Rust is almost done! The new version of Intiface Desktop will support Rust and C#, making Rust default and dropping node support altogether (you didn't want to be using the node engine anyways, trust me). The C# support is only staying for windows users who I may have broken things for in Rust, but I'm hoping Intiface Desktop will only run one engine within the next 6-8 weeks.

... But Why?

The next and much bigger question is... What the fuck is Intiface Desktop for? Throughout the past few years I've managed to totally fracture the platform, between the availability of libraries on native/web, the ability to build them embedded or using ID, etc. So it's hard to say why people should use it. I'm starting work now to figure out how (for lack of a non-businessy term here) to realign all of the Buttplug/Intiface properties to make things a little more obvious and streamlined. More on this as I figure it out.

Some of the things I'd like in Intiface Desktop:

  • Device setup/tests
  • Device simulators for developers
  • App library, maybe some sort of launcher/installer?
  • Web synced app updates?

Thinking in the direction of a sort of games launcher (Steam, Epic, etc) for sex toy apps, probably closer to Itch than anything.

And yes, if you just want something that will run a main server and gets rid of all that crap, I'll be making a stripped down version too. :P

Feel free to comment if you have things you'd like to see in ID.

Anyways, that's it for now. Long weekend coming up, so hopefully getting a lot done then!

Until next time, keep buttpluggin'!

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