Noun Town News

Welcome citizens of Noun Town! 👋

In this major update we've added an Alphabet training machine! This console, called 'Alpha-Bash', can be found in the airship behind the SRS machine.

The Alpha-Bash console is a fast and frantic way to lock-in foreign alphabet vocab, racing against the clock to set a high score. Listen to a native speaker pronounce a letter, then to hit the corresponding character to score.



Phonetic alphabets can be played in English, Japanese (Hiragana & Katakana), German, Korean, Spanish (MX), Spanish (ES), French, Italian, Ukrainian, Russian, Greek and Egyptian Arabic.

We'll also soon be adding the ability to pick between other topics to learn on the console, including colours, numbers, directions, and more!

Enjoy! :)

The Noun Town team

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1643100/Noun_Town_VR_Language_Learning/

Welcome to our latest update!

We are *very* close to another major update, but in the meantime we're dropping a number of bug fixes and quality of life improvements in this update.

HUGE THANKS to our community for suggesting improvements and reporting bugs! Join us on Discord here.

What's changed?
- Resolved various flickering surfaces across game
- Fixed an issue where users in Türkiye had trouble accessing
- Improved the UI on the color minigame
- Minor fixes / UX improvements to various verbs, including:
> To shoot - resolved crashing issue
> To swim - allows for for both teleport and locomotion inputs
> To get off - start and finish processes more accessible
> To look at - manatees placed correctly in the water
> To turn on - lights no go back on fully after verb completed(!)
> To read - quality of life improvements
> To climb - ladder appears correctly in all locations
> To watch - fixed an issue with a shy mouse not appearing
> To see - fixed the gravity on the sketchbook
> To get up - corrected text on UI

Enjoy! :)

Welcome to our latest update! As ever, a HUGE THANKS to our community for suggesting improvements and reporting bugs! Join us on Discord here.

...aaaaand if you're enjoying Noun Town, a rating and a review are always incredibly appreciated!

NEW FEATURES:
We've added a Romanisation toggle in Settings menu (can now turn off all romaji and other romanisations)

Bug fixes and quality of life improvements:
- Fixed app freeze upon launching into MR in INITIALISATION MR for some users
- Ensured speech recording works after unpausing/refocusing in STEAM VR
- Fixed Noun box orbiting issue when opening and closing Oculus menu in NOUN BOX
- Implemented different marker implementation for ONBOARDING to the verb process
- Added Noun Town:LINK beta support for backing up + syncing save file
- Fixed LEXIMAIL screen break preventing news display
- Adjusted UI board highlight fitting in COLORS MINIGAME
- Corrected typo for "Environment" in VRMR UI
- Enabled talking to Meera in Food Store in AMBIENT
- Fixed SUPERSEEKER items facing wrong direction
- Ensured "To look at" water is visible in MR in MR VERBS
- Prevented loss of Farm scene Hose in "To Wash" VERB
- Fixed broken Cassian verb in BEACH
- Addressed particle spawn position issue in NUMBERS MINIGAME
- Prevented item highlight remaining after quitting SUPERSEEKER early
- Ensured "Heater" can be grabbed in LEARNING OBJECT
- Repositioned fishing rod to not block items in FARM LEARNING RUSH
- Fixed multiple particle instantiation upon verb completion in VERBS
- Ensured AIRSHIP CASSETTES appear when learned
- Improved airship path-following animation in ISLAND AIRSHIP
- Fixed animals being thrown through bench collider in resort area in COLLIDERS
- Made lessons playable in "Sports" and "Clothes" in broken languages
- Addressed blank data appearing as an option in SRS multiple choice
- Update "Carp" audio in English in AUDIO
- Differentiate between chair and stool in Arabic in LEARNING RUSH
- Corrected rotation of instantiated particles in VERBS learning scenes
- Prevented getting stuck in DIRECTIONS GAME if device is lost
- Addressed multiple sounds from learning objects in SUPERSEEKER
- Fixed disappearing items in room after SUPERSEEKER game
- Adjusted UI to prevent overlaps in SUPERSEEKER with extensive word learning
- Added texture to Silver flower in FLOWER MINIGAME
- Prevented Verbs and NPC spawning during active SRS in MR
- Prevented going out of bounds on Farm in ISLAND
- Added texture to lever on fabricator in AIRSHIP
- Aligned UI buttons correctly in QA CHAT
- Fixed UI for limit reached in LEARNING KIOSK
- Addressed game slowdown in COLORS MINIGAME after learning multiple seeds
- Allowed bypassing colors directly to phase two in FLOWER MINIGAME when learning multiple seeds
- Addressed issue where "Walk to marker" instruction appears despite being in the marker after final word in ONBOARDING CAFE

Enjoy! :)

Hey citizens of Noun Town! 👋

We've crammed a whole lot into our biggest ever update. Where to start?

[h2]🌎 6 NEW LANGUAGES[/h2]

We've just added these new languages for you to learn: English, Mexican Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, Arabic (Egyptian), and Greek.

This brings the total number of learnable languages to 13(!) look out for more in the future too.



[h2]🌎 NEW ANY-LANGUAGE-TO-ANY-LANGUAGE SYSTEM[/h2]

You can also now select between English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Korean or Portuguese for all the in-game menus and user interfaces, making the game more user-friendly and accessible.



[h2]🌎 NEW TUTORIAL + BUG SQUASHING[/h2]

The final update in this release is a completely overhauled tutorial to help players get up to speed quickly. We also have to say a HUGE thanks to our community for all the bug reports (mainly via our Discord) - we've dropped c.100 changes and fixes into this version from your feedback. Each report makes Noun Town better, just as each mistake you make learning a language takes you closer to fluency!



[h2]🌎 MORE UPDATES TO COME?[/h2]

We've already started work on the next update, where we're hoping to add the ability to learn the alphabet(s) of your chosen language, a new mini-game, and some major updates to how some of the learning scenes look!

Keep hitting those Daily Goals and building those Streaks!


The Noun Town team

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1643100/Noun_Town_VR_Language_Learning/

Hey everyone! 👋

[h2]Noun Town is on sale at -25% off for a limited time! 🎉
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Level up your language skills by playing Noun Town, where you play and your language learning just happens!

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🏃‍♂️ Kickstart your language learning journey with a game, not another boring textbook

⚡ Rapidly build your vocab and make it stick with exciting mini-games & automatic revision

👩🏻 Meet interesting strangers and practice speaking without fear with a unique speech recognition system trained on native speakers

📅 Stick to your learning with a Daily Goals system

⛔ Avoid quitting with a language tool that's unlike any you've experienced before

🌎 Leave Noun Town island with a language learning habit to lead you to success!

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We've got loads more cool stuff planned for 2024 too, hope to see you on Noun Town island soon 😊

The Noun Town team

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1643100/Noun_Town_VR_Language_Learning/