Yay, a Buttpluggin' with qDot video made in an evening instead of multiple weeks! A review of how well 10tons Ltd's Crimsonland (which I randomly picked up on steam for like $2 but ended up enjoying quite a bit as an actual game because I just love twin stick shooters) works as a sex toy controller.
Is Crimsonland Art? Watch to find out!
Most of the crash reports we get from Buttplug C# these days have to do with the Kiiroo Emulator. For those not aware, this application simulates the old Kiiroo server that was used with the Onyx 1 and Pearl 1 before FeelConnect was a thing. The movies at http://flicker.tv, which is where we usually directed people for easy to get free films, expect the server, but we've built readers for their file format into Syncydink and ScriptPlayer, so that's not as much of an issue. Kiiroo took the actual server out of production around the time Buttplug started development, but I used the simulator as a test for early builds and it's just kinda stuck around since.We'd like to remove the Simulator completely, as it'll be one less application to take care of for us, but I want to make sure no one has any dependencies on it before we do that. I've got a twitter poll up at https://twitter.com/buttplugio/status/1020800900829286400, but I'm posting a poll here 'cause you're all paying me so I listen to you more. :)
A rather quiet week due to some personal stuff getting in the way, but still got some work done!Youtube Embeds are still in beta on Syncydink. The goal here is to provide scripts alongside Buttpluggin' With qDot videos, so when my toys vibrate in videos, yours can too! This means I've gotta build recording features into our apps, but that shouldn't be too much of a problem.
With that in mind, I'm also working on making my recording setup a little easier to work with. Editing is usually the #1 time sink when making youtube videos, so I'm trying to see how much composition and one-shot recording I can do to maybe crank out videos like the Will It Buttplug series faster. This isn't gonna work for everything, as my more complicated videos will still require multiple cameras and editing work, but it's worth a shot.
https://beta.syncydink.buttplug.world/Below the file entry on the syncydink side panel, there is now a place to paste in youtube urls. If you paste in a URL and hit enter (I need to fix up that UI), it'll now load a youtube video directly into syncydink.
We don't actually check whether a URL is youtube yet, so if you try to paste another URL or something in, I can't really tell you what will happen. Feel free to test that and let me know. :)
A couple of days late, but I'll blame that on the Steam sale selling me Metal Gear Solid 5 for cheap and getting me addicted to it. Sure.attaches fulton extraction device to buttplugs
Anyways, busy week around Buttplug Labs before that! Finally got the new version of Syncydink out after 7 months of quiet. I'm now working on doing rolling releases of it with smaller features, since that overhaul took so long.
Your patreon dollars, hard at work.My bluetooth speaker onahole arrived.
Full review video coming soon.
May god have mercy on us all.Syncydink v0.0.3 is now live, making it the first major update of Syncydink since December 2017. There's still not much in the way of new features, as most of this was cleanup and package updates, but development should be much simpler from now on since the mess that was Video Modes is gone.
I've also switched out the opening page with a card that shows slightly more info. In the coming days, this will fill out some to actually include documentation on how to use the player, as well as news and updates, so users won't have to guess about when the last time I changed things was.
https://beta.syncydink.buttplug.worldHere's the URL for the beta of the upgraded Syncydink. Outside of the widget set changes, the biggest change right now is to Video Modes.
Mostly, that there aren't Video Modes anymore. :)
You can hit Escape on a keyboard to open and close the side panel now. This will be extremely important if you have a movie that's larger than the side widget. :)
Javascript, javascript, and more javascript. Well, ok, it's actually all Typescript. But you get the idea.buttplug-js has been lagging behind our C# libraries for a while, so I spent the first chunk of this week bringing it up to date, and buttplug-js v0.8.0 is out now. We now have Lovense device queries working everywhere, which is a massive help for the new versions of firmware constantly being released. Also fixed quite a few bugs.
Once that was finished, it was time to go update the rest of the apps that depend on it. I've updated our Twine and Tutorial apps, so they run on the new version. Buttplug Playground also got an update, and now supports per-feature control, meaning if you have a piece of hardware with multiple features (like the Lovense Edge, Max, Nora, or Mysteryvibe Crescendo), you can now control motors/rotators/etc individually).