Noun Town News

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/

Introducing Korean - our first FREE language update (with 15+ more on the way in the coming months!). Now you can dive in and learn Korean with nouns, verbs, minigames and lessons!

We've also added a new minigame made it possible to customise your Lexibot helper and fixed a whole bunch of things.

Thanks to our awesome community for the improvement ideas / finding the bugs for this update. You can Join our Discord here.

[h2]Korean Language added![/h2]
- Added Korean lessons
- Added Korean object translations
- Added Korean dialogues translations
- Added Korean minigame translations



[h2]Jobs minigame added![/h2]



[h2]Bot customisation added![/h2]



[h2]Fixes[/h2]
- Platform and screen panels height fixed
- Speech recognition evaluation error
- Speech recognition stalling error

Enjoy!