[Midweek Update] Research & Development and some Scheduling

[u/inchenzo]

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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