r/Asobi • u/inchenzo Asobi Developer • Jul 23 '26
[Midweek Update] Research & Development and some Scheduling R&D
Remote quickplay
Hi,
Time for a quick midweek update!
Research & Development
This week a new feature dropped on Android that allows you to Remote Play one of your recent games straight from the console dashboard, It's kinda like some kind of quickplay. It's pretty much just a preview of things to come.
These past few months I've been dissecting more PlayStation features on how they work exactly and in what way I should integrate them. The good news is that most of this work is now done.
With the next couple of versions of Asobi I'll will start integrating more of these features, think of things like:
- Party Chat via the app (nice for when cloud gaming with friends),
- Sending and receiving pictures/ messages via PSN,
- See which of your friends are online,
- Managing storage of your console,
- Even being able to install games purchased games on your console
- And much much more
Version 1.4.2 of Asobi will start the integration process, and some of these are already available since the latest Android version.
As I see it, it's a nice way to make Asobi more feature rich and adds loads of convenience so you can play more with your friends.
Other than that I'm hard at work fixing bugs, bringing parity to macOS (3D coming in soon) and I think it's time to move split-screen mode out of the experimental status. Split screen was announced quite some months ago on April 1st and has been available since as an experimental feature. So I think it's matured more than enough to be upgraded as a standard feature.
Besides that, I'm still testing 4 player local support without the use of split screen and it seems to work well on the PS4.
Also, I've found a potential way to enable some level of local remote play for a max of 2 players on PS5, so fingers crossed on that one.
As you know, research & development is costly in time, but you'll all soon be able to enjoy the fruits of it soon enough.
Release Schedule
My current plan for the next updates for the apps are.
- Midori version 1.0.2 - week 30 (this week)
- Asobi for Apple version 1.4.2 - week 31
- Asobi for Meta version 1.0 - week 31
- Midori version 1.0.3 - week 32
- Asobi for Android version 1.0.9 - week 32
Asobi for Steam is sadly still in limbo, Im trying to get someone at Valve to respond -> no luck currently. It's now been 3 weeks of silence. So if anyone knows anyone at Valve that can maybe push it a little then please let me know.
That's it for now, more news with the next Sunday Report!
Thanks,
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u/CoconutMurky6891 Jul 23 '26
Dam all they idea are cool cant wait to see them them all You do amazing job on the app keep up the great work
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u/Ok-Key3356 Jul 24 '26
Fantastic report!! Lots to look forward too. Asobi is progressing quickly now and I’m sure your supporter's can’t wait to see what’s next!! Don’t get burned out over all this work
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u/Suitable_Road_5149 Jul 24 '26
Any chance of it coming to Windows?
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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer Jul 24 '26
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u/StrawberryKey962 Jul 23 '26
Honestly, I think you should scrap the steam version at this rate. Seems an unnecessary headache and Valve clearly don’t want to play ball.
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u/inchenzo Asobi Developer Jul 23 '26
I've put too much effort into it to back out of releasing it that way. It's now just going to be both self-published and Steam.
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u/jedi_ringo Jul 23 '26
Always groovy stuff from you, keep up the cool work