Sorta?
Things have been pretty quiet on the Buttplug/Intiface front lately. The good news is, reconstruction of my workspace is done! The not so good news is, moving back in is taking forever and life in general has gotten in the way of me having development time, so everything is a bit stalled right now.
Scrubbing away technical debt
Back when I built Intiface Central, I didn't really do much work on adapting the layers below it. I just kinda made Buttplug and Intiface Engine (the first user layer on top of Buttplug, which handles things like setting up the engine, running our command line interface, etc... Central sits on top of Engine and provides the GUI) work with the new Central setup.
So much for that Quiet End Of The Year wish.
A couple of weeks ago, my workspace in my house flooded due to some broken plumbing. The good news is, no hardware was damaged. Almost no material losses really. The bad news is that we're still dealing with insurance and water remediation, and that's gonna take a while, so I'm having to work from another space, and all my hardware and stuff is packed up for the moment. This has caused what few schedules I did have to no longer really exist.
Finally got through the store page part of the process, now just gotta get a build up and a trailer made. Aiming for Steam release early November.
This is mostly in the service of making Steam Deck installs easier. Otherwise it'll just be a shitpost, mostly because I've always wanted to add Achievements to my software. There may be paid DLC in the future, which will mostly be for incredibly, useless dumb features that will not affect core usability, as a funding strategy for the project. All core features will remain free.
Playing Cyberpunk 2077 so much that I forget it's Monday and therefore write my update on Tuesday. :|
Anyways, Intiface Central v2.4.5 is now out! There was a v2.4.4 but we don't talk about that because I completely hosed Lovense Dongle support in it.
Ok well I guess I'm back on the development wagon.
I've been feeling like developing again lately (and not only because I finished Baldur's Gate 3), so I decided to try to make headway on some fun projects instead of just diving back into the library specifics.
I finally got fed up with the logging panel and have now rebuilt it. It's now much more compact, easier to see more messages (especially on mobile), and we should have log/crash reporting in again too! This will be massively helpful for support in the future.
Annnnnnnnd that's it. Life continues to be rough due to personal/medical issues, but managing to get stuff done here and there.
Life can really just stop it at any point now.
But the good news is, at least progress is happening sometimes! I've managed to get Intiface Central v2.4.3 out to all platforms, which has a lot of quality of life work, as well as some pretty important bugfixes (especially for Android Bluetooth).
Still bein' a nurse...
Looks like Buttplug Protocol v4 gonna be happening a lot sooner than I expected!
Ok, short one for this week because it's been ~7 weeks since the last update, but there's good reason for that.
My partner was in the hospital for an extended amount of time and had major surgery, meaning I haven't really had a ton of time to write much here or elsewhere. Luckily we're back home now, but I'm still spinning back up on having a life that does not revolve around the hospital again.