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Steam Awards Nominees - Labour Of Love

Hey Wobblies! 

Since its release on Early Access, our team has consistently poured passion and creativity into Wobbly Life, enriching it with regular updates, innovative features, and endless fun – and we're not stopping anytime soon!

Join us in celebrating the joy and dedication behind Wobbly Life by nominating it for the 'Labour Of Love' category in 'The Steam Awards 2023'!

Your support not only recognizes the hard work and love that has gone into its creation and growth but also celebrates a game that continues to flourish and connect with its players.

Nominate Wobbly Life now, and let's share this journey together!






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Community Contest Update & Cozy Quest!

Hey Wobblies!

We’ve closed the door for our Design Your Own Costume contest this morning and let us tell you we’re in for a long deliberation process. So many of you have submitted creative and well-made designs!



We’re beyond excited to dive deep into everything you’ve shared with us, join our Discord here to see everyone’s entries! but for now, we wanted to thank you for participating and sharing your creations with us. We'll share the winners soon and we hope you’re enjoying the Up in The Clouds update in the meantime.

We're also delighted to be part of Cozy Quest: a new Steam festival featuring a curated group of cozy games, sales, developer interviews, and livestreams.



Cozy Quest invites players to snuggle up with a warm drink and a blanket between November 16th-20th to celebrate the comfiest and cuddliest gaming experiences Steam has to offer. Players will also discover all-new favourites from a hand-picked collection of upcoming cozy champions. So, grab your favourite people, get some hot-coco and head to Wobbly Island!

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Design your own costume competition – 1st until the 15th of NOV

Hey Wobblies!

Time to show off your creative side in another 'Design Your Own Costume/Clothes' competition! 🎨👚👒

Let your creativity run wild and dream up the most incredible and mind-boggling clothing ideas you can think of, use the templates below or your own sketch.

Share them on our #Clothes ideas channel on Discord - https://discord.gg/JmeZCWWh3A

The competition starts on the 1st and ends on the 15th of November.
The best costumes will be implemented in the game.

Good luck and HAVE FUN! 🎉






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Major Update v0.9.1 - Up in the clouds

Hello all Wobblies!

Welcome to the v0.9.1 Update!

This update is a big content update for Wobbly Island. It’s packed with new missions, two new jobs, loads of new clothes and so much more! After the Arcade update we were really eager to jump back into Wobbly Island to give you all more things to do!

We hope you enjoy all the new content we’ve created.

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The Sleepy Sleeper 3000



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A brand new bed called the ‘Sleepy Sleeper 3000’ has been delivered to Pine Design Furniture. It looks super comfy, maybe you should give it a try?

Weather Station



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Why not visit the new Weather Station up on the mountain. Here the ‘Wobbly Climate Club’ are hard at work creating exciting new weather technologies. They always need help, so head up there and see if you can lend a hand.

You never know where it might lead!

Detective Missions



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Detective Buck needs your help again. He’s got two brand new mysteries for you to solve, so dig out your magnifying glass, put on your thinking cap and get to work!

Loads of new side missions




There are a bunch of new side missions all over Wobbly Island. Go meet the Bobble Brothers, save a lost cow, and even break into the Wobbly bank!

There’s lots to do so get out there and help those Wobbly’s!

Art Studio



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An art studio has opened up on Wobbly Island and they’re looking for new artists. Pick up your chisels, grab your brushes and get to work creating the best sculptures that the island has ever seen!

Just try not to make too much of a mess!

Weather Researcher Job



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The ‘Wobbly Climate Club’ do weather balloon surveys all over Wobbly Island. But they need some help collecting the results. So jump in one of their weather drones and earn some cash collecting balloons!

New Hide and Seek Map



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Check out the new Art Studio map in the Hide and Seek arcade mode. Whether you’re ducking behind a paint brush or jumping in a paint pot, there are plenty of places to hide. But be careful not to tread in any paint, as you’ll leave a trail of footprints for the seeker to follow!

Parachute Travel System




Perfect Parachutes have opened 4 locations around the map. For a small fee they will take you for an exciting sky dive from a location of your choice. They’ll even throw in the parachute for free!

This can be a quick way of getting around the island.

New buyable houses




The real estate market on Wobbly Island just got a bit bigger. Live the high life in one of the 3 new apartments in the city. Or if you fancy a more adventurous home you could buy one of the new jungle huts.

Key Rebinding (Keyboard/Mouse only)




After lots of requests players can now rebind their keyboard keys. The controls menu has been updated to support this.

Rumble Support




We’ve added rumble support for controllers on all platforms. Things like explosions, car crashes, vehicle skids now will vibrate your gamepad! In future updates we may implement rumble into more of the game too.

Additionally after a request from a Wobbly Life player, we’ve added rumble to the metal detectors to help people who have hearing impairments do the Treasure Job. Each beep is now matched with a vibration which should make it easier to find all that lost treasure!

But if you’d rather not have your hands vibrated, there is a new setting in the options where the effect can be reduced or turned off completely.

Shared Waypoints




The map has been updated to show other players' waypoints as well. These will show on your map in blue, and are only visible when you’re in the same vehicle as the player who created that waypoint.

Graphical Upgrades




A few places around the map have had some graphical upgrades, such as the underground train lines. We’ve also updated some of the older clothes models, made some new movie posters and improved pop-in on areas such as the docks and cannons.

Updated Helicopter Controls


Helicopter controls now use the gamepad triggers for going up and down. We thought this was a better solution which felt more responsive.

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New/Updated Content


New Missions :

A Sleepy Adventure

Climate Control

The Haunted House

Buck’s Stolen Hat

A Bank UnRobbery

The Flying Cow

Underground Mix Up

Dropped In The River

A Cut Too Far

Down In The Sand

New Jobs :

Weather Researcher

Artist

New Art Studio hide and seek map

Added a Weather Station with a weather changing machine

New Parachute Fast Travel System

New Buyable Housing : Jungle Huts, City Apartments

New Vehicles : Quad Bike, Weather Drone, Sofa Car, Super Police Car

New Clothes : Slick Hair, Bed Salesmen outfit, Dream King Outfit, Cloud Outfit, Scarecrow Outfit, Round Glasses and variants, Train Conductor Outfit, Cactus Outfit, Classic Pilot Outfit, Weather Data Hat, Electrified Hair, Tornado Outfit, Artist Outfit, Life Guard Outfit, Pirate Captain Outfit, Bad Haircut and Wig Hair, Magnifying Glasses, Bucket Hat, Suspicious Outfit, Vault hat, Balding Hair, Bucks Hat, Binoculars Hat

Updated Helicopter controls to use triggers on Gamepad

Pizza Boxes now vanish

You can now see other players waypoint if they are in the same vehicle as you, these will show up as blue lines.

Updated music mixes for Main Menu and Loading screen.

Added new Quiz Questions

Pets now use the addressables system (better performance)

Added some new NPCs around the world

Added key rebinding (Keyboard/Mouse only)

Added 4 new achievements

Added Gamepad rumble support

Added rumble to the metal detector which vibrates the gamepad the closer you are to the treasure

Vehicles now use the addressables system

[h2]Graphical Upgrades[/h2]

Underground train tunnels have new scenery

Character now closes eyes when sleeping

Remodel of some clothes : Pizza pants, Shorts, Spiked hair, Pirate hat, Longish Hair, Propeller Hat Longish Hair Variant

Added scarecrows to farm fields

Added more main menu animations

Ocean water now rises and falls slightly

New Movie posters at the Cinema

Raised resolution on some textures

Docks and cannons no longer pop in from a distance

Grass and terrain details distance now change depending on your render distance

Improvements to save slot selection UI

Bug Fixes


Sandbox large bedroom Xylophone sounds now are the correct way round

Fixed moon showing under map

Fixed player count exceeding more then max players

Fixed PS5 button prompts not aligning correctly

Fixed apartments for sale minimap icon not showing when far away

Fixed some roundabout navigation issues

Fixed some jitter issues on multiplayer

Fixed character orientation

Fixed scroll bar on modmachine ui (PC only)

Fixed multiple versions of the loading music playing when you quit to menu while in a job

Fixed a lamp spawning as a Fridge in Sandbox mode

Fixed an issue where some mission states can lock if you quit out of the game

Fixed massive fires

Removed default commands in the in-game debug console

Fixed treasure job spawning issues

Fixed delivery truck doors not syncing

Fixed staying on player select screen destroys your FPS

Fixed input hints being the same on hats and tops

Potential fix for endless loading screen due to FMOD No Sound Output

Fixed The Golden Ball mission - Not accepting the bowling ball

Fixed FBI Vehicle thinks it’s in water when you get out and in it while in water then drive out.

Fixed music overlapping failure/success music with job music

Fixed job sheet flicker

Fixed plane race getting a head start if you hold down accelerate

Fixed sword cave props not despawning and then falling from sky

Fixed on restarting emergancy helicopter job, clients couldnt see the newly spawned in helicopter untill they touched it

Fixed duplicated lab fan sound

Major Update v0.9.0

Hello all Wobblies!

Welcome to the v0.9.0 Update!

Arcade Mode is here. You’ve all seen the button on the menu, and now you can play it!

This update is a bit different to our normal updates, it has sort of been like creating a brand new game. We’re really excited for you all to play it with your friends and we hope you enjoy playing it as much as we enjoyed making it!

We’re also super excited to be releasing the first version of our mod tools. We can’t wait to see what people can create with them!



Arcade



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Arcade is the main feature of this update. It has been in the works for a very long time. Arcade isn’t just one game mode, Arcade has 4 official modes for you to play: Trash Zone, Hide & Seek, Wobble Run and Sandbox. Each of these modes also has customizable settings for you to play around with!

Trash Zone


Trash Zone is an asymmetric party game where one player (the Trasher) will attempt to knock the other players (the Trash) into a trash compactor to knock them out. They will do this by throwing objects down into the ‘Trash Zone’, launching them at the other players. The Trash players have to dodge these objects until the timer runs out.



If the Trasher knocks all the players out, then they win. But if any of the Trash players survive until the end of the timer, then they win. Any players who get pushed into the trash compactor spawn back in and can help the Trasher take out the remaining players.

We hope this gamemode will be a new experience for Wobbly Life players and a load of fun to play with friends.

To find out more about Trash Zone read our Arcade Development Preview #1.

Hide and Seek


Hide and Seek is a mode where one player is the “Seeker”, and the rest of the players are the “Hiders”.

When the game starts the Hiders have a short time to go find somewhere to hide. The Seeker stays behind a locked door while they go and hide.


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Once the hiding timer reaches zero the door unlocks and the Seeker is released to go find the Hiders.

To catch a Hider the Seeker needs to grab them, and if the Seeker catches all the Hiders before the timer runs out then the Seeker wins. But if any Hiders manage to evade the Seeker until the timer runs out then they win.

When a Hider is caught, they spectate until the end of the game.

Hide and Seek has 4 maps: Quarry, Office, Village and Jungle.

To find out more about Hide & Seek read our Arcade Development Preview #2.

Wobble Run


Wobble Run is a race through colorful obstacle courses. Players will need to jump, dodge, grab and wobble their way to victory. The first Wobbly over the finish line wins!



Wobble Run courses are made up of different obstacles each with their own challenges. Compete against your friends to see who can get the best time!

Wobble Run has 10 courses for you to compete in. Below are some screenshots of our favorites!


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The courses vary in difficulty and each one will have unique challenges. You can also adjust timers, weather and enable/disable checkpoints in the settings.

To find out more about Wobble Run read our Arcade Development Preview #3.

Sandbox




Sandbox mode is the physics playground you always wanted. Spawn Objects & Vehicles using the Sandbox Menu and let your imagination run wild. Want to know what would happen if you blew up 50 TNT’s inside a bouncy castle? Well now you can find out!

Sandbox has 4 maps for you to play around with: Empty, Large Bedroom, City & Stadium. The Sandbox menu also features settings to alter player speed and jump strength, as well as a noclip mode.

Mods


The other side of the Arcade mode are Mods. This is the first beta version of our mods tools. These are only available to Steam users and use the Steam Workshop.



Mods allow you to create your own experiences using our mod tools via the Unity game engine - this could be your own gamemode or a custom world for you to mess around with the physics… it’s completely up to you!

To create a mod you use the Wobbly Life Mod SDK. You can find documentation for it here. We plan to add more functionality to the SDK and update the documentation in the future.

Mod demo versions of the Trash Zone and Quarry Hide and Seek maps can be found here for reference. The mod SDK allows modders to create their own sandbox maps too! Please note that creating your own custom game modes will require some coding experience.

We hope the modders out there will get stuck in and make amazing Wobbly Life content for all you PC players to enjoy!

Emotes




We’ve added loads of new emotes to the emote wheel. The wheel is now divided into 4 sections each with 4 to 6 emotes in it. We hope you all enjoy these new emotes, we’ve had great fun making them!

Updated Main Menu




The Main Menu has had a complete redesign and is now set on Granny’s street in the main game world. The redesign should make it easier to start and find game sessions in the two different game types; World and Arcade.

Performance Improvements


This update includes some massive improvements to physics and rendering performance. Almost all users should get a boost to FPS regardless of platform.

We’ve also added a “Chunk Distance (host only)” option in the settings for PC users. This controls the distance objects will load/unload. Note that this setting is server wide and only the hosts setting has any effect. Lowering this setting can give a big boost to performance at the cost of render distance and despawning objects.

Console Graphical Improvements


All console versions now have bloom on certain lights. This means those lights will now glow.

We’ve also added ambient occlusion to all console versions which improves shading and graphical depth for the whole game.

Merch


Don’t forget we’ve got merch!

We have more stuff coming to the store very soon so keep an eye out for that.

Link: https://store.rubberbandgames.com/



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New/Updated Content


Added Arcade mode!

Added Arcade Lobby Scene

New Arcade Game Modes:

Trash Zone - An asymmetric party game where one player tries to knock out the other players using trash.

Hide And Seek - See if you can hide from the Seeker until the timer runs out.

Sandbox - Spawn items and vehicles and play around with the game physics in custom maps.

Wobble Run - An colourful obstacle course race. See who can get to the finish line first!

Added loads more Emotes and a new Emote wheel!

Added Mod Support for Steam!

New Main Menu!

Music and SFX mix improvements

Updated bowling so you can reset the pins

Updated roller shutter sound

Added Buy First Clothing Mission in the todo list

Updated the world and character select UI

Added option to change the chunk loading distance (The higher the value will make more of the world load but will be more jittery when moving between chunks). This is only avaliable on PC

Improved performance

Updated Plane movement so it acts with the physics engine correctly

The mine job rocks are now lighter

[h2]Graphical Upgrades[/h2]

Updated old clothes : Devil Outfit

Jelly car exhaust now changes color to match vehicle color

Updated many Job instruction Sheets UI

Bug Fixes


Fixed vehicle reverbs still being audible when the Vehicle audio slider was all the way down.

Fixed done camera speed not consistent.

Fixed shallow waters showing for a split second when you are not in shallow waters.

Fixed jittery hands when grabbing objects.

Fixed Pet and Vehicle reverbs still been audible when their options slider is down.

Fixed furniture job where no delivery item would spawn.

Fixed furniture job where bookshelf would spawn in the ground.

Fixed an issue where client can bypass loading screeen before server has loaded

Fixed Sparky pet flourish explosion particle

Fixed Respawning issues

Fixed floating book in the Quiz foyer room

Fixed being able to get to the Yeti cave via a Ancient Hoverboard before ringing the gong.

Fixed Wobbly turning completely black

Fixed Holding onto mountain door while it is opening makes you float

Fixed building site fences occluding the audio of vehicles

Fixed sun flare not aligning with sun

Fixed vehicle exploding in customize shop

Fixed delivery job markers not displaying on client

Fixed invisible collider while doing the Mine job

Fixed dialog getting stuck after speaking to Buck when the next day happens

Fixed UFO not being able to pick up things properly

Fixed first detective mission (Finding magnifying glass) mission board pointing to wrong item

Fixed Trash Collection completing even when you’ve dumped bags into water

Fixed invisible player bug

Fixed pet getting out of pet bed when you wake up and have put the pet in the pet bed

Fixed Vehicle shop display raining

Known Bugs


City drawbridge orientation shows incorrectly for clients