Ok maybe if I write these in the morning I'll actually remember to send them out...

Most of the last two weeks have been spent trying to wedge Buttplug into Unity in a way that will work with IL2CPP. For those not familiar, IL2CPP is a way for Unity to compile games to make them run faster, but it takes a lot of consideration when building libraries to work with it.

So much consideration that I had to rearchitect a non-trivial portion of Buttplug. :|

That ended up being Buttplug v3 (which came out last week), then most of this past week has been trying to get the FFI layer updated so the C# stuff will work with Unity. As of yesterday I finally have a solution that I think works everywhere. I managed to get toys vibrating in IL2CPP production builds as far back as Unity 2018, so that's a good sign. Cleanup is happening now, hoping to have this out later this week.

The big outcomes of this will be updates to the FarmD (https://patreon.com/softscale)) and ViRoPlayspace (https://viro.club)) games, as well as hopefully being able to discuss starting toy control work with Dominatrix Simulator. The work on the FFI will also hopefully put us in a somewhat better position to look at C/C++ integrations, which gets us moving toward Unreal Engine integrations. Maybe Java bindings too?

Everything Else

The workload mentioned above has eaten my life, so there's not a ton to say otherwise. Plans for the near future include:

• Hopefully making a youtube video on the OhMiBod Lumen, now the smallest Bluetooth buttplug (the toy type) usable with Buttplug (the library). tl;dr: It's pretty good, but has the same connection issues as all other butt toys currently
• Writing up a blog post on our issues with butt toys and how I plan to fix them (i.e. finally getting some sort of mobile interface working, so you can use your phone as the hardware controller and connect that to desktop apps)
• More FFI expansion
• More hardware support

That's it for this week. Until next week, Keep Buttpluggin'!

• qDot