Noun Town Language Learning News

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📢MAJOR UPDATE📢

NEW -> Progress page added!
- You can now track your progress on a dedicated screen
- Stay motivated and keep learning with this extra info
- It also shows you what content you still need to discover in the game



NEW -> Steam achievements added - can you unlock them all?

NEW -> Settings panel added to show you what keys / buttons do what in the game

IMPROVED-> Avoid revision overload with SRS reviews now limited to 30 words / phrases per review session (note: you can still do as many revision sessions as you like)

IMPROVED-> In-game DICTIONARY now easier to navigate and review your learning

IMPROVED-> FABRICATOR expanded so it's quicker to locate the items you want to spawn on demand

Plus these bug fixes & quality of life changes...
- Resolved an issue where Chinese players sometimes couldn't do speech rec if they hadn't chosen Chinese for the UI / menu language
- Added all directions words to the SRS
- Rescaled the text size on the Inbox messages to improve readability
- Added an end of game celebration(!)
- Made all items in the supermarket easily accessible
- Addressed an issue with Pishi rotating the wrong way when in conversation
- Fixed the "skip" button when in Lessons
- Improved menu / sub-menu navigation on Steam Deck
- Fixed an issue with one Lesson where three NPCs partake
- Various fixes to animals misbehaving
- Changed the sprite used to represent Questions in the SRS
- Fixed a bug where the inbox messages don't work after switching to another tab
- Added pagination to the list of Lessons
- Fixed a minor issue with the Streak system
- Fixed an issue where interaction with a Chromoemitter interfered with the game music

Enjoy the update and join our community to stay up to date with what's coming next: https://discord.gg/3K3jWtCy3H


The Noun Town team 🎉

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2313720/Noun_Town_Language_Learning/

📢MAJOR UPDATE📢

NEW -> Furigana added!
- You can now see Furigana throughout Noun Town when learning Japanese
- This was one of our most requested features
- Check it out here:
> Object info (Tab button on keyboard to access)
> Dictionary
> Lessons
> All NPC dialogues
> Colour & Number mini-games



Plus these bug fixes...
- Greek & Ukrainian speech rec improvements
- Pinyin non-speech input options now do not show when romanisation is switched off
- Fixed one of the Japanese clothes store lessons which didn't run
- Resolved an issue with using construction mode in the airship
- Fixed non-speech rec delivery bot locking issue with the Japanese language
- Prevent a hidden cursor from interfering with UI navigation

Enjoy the update and join our community to stay up to date with all of our exciting future plans to improve the game: https://discord.gg/3K3jWtCy3H


The Noun Town team 🎉

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2313720/Noun_Town_Language_Learning/

In this update we've made some changes to how the Directions and Numbers mini-games work following feedback from our community.

Directions
- Made the delivery bot waaaay easier to drive
- Removed the time penalty on making a wrong choice
- "Play again" button added to final screen
- More tooltips to help players understand the game
- Various bug fixes / UI improvements
- VFX and SFX improvements



Numbers
- Made the haywire robots waaaay easier to hit (doubled the hit radius)
- You can now walk up to a completed bot to hear its number
- UI on workshop easier to understand what numbers you've completed / still need to find
- More tooltips to help players understand the game
- Various bug fixes / UI improvements
- VFX and SFX improvements



More updates on the way!

Thank you

📢MAJOR UPDATE📢

NEW -> No-speech input method added!
- You can now choose to input via text or the original voice recognition method
- This provides a whole new way to learn!
- Pick between phonetic input units to learn words and phrases
- Get hints and quickly find out where your mistakes were
- No-speech is playable without an internet connection, allowing you to play on-the-go



NEW -> LINK feature added
- Back up your progress for added security
- Synchronise your learning between versions of Noun Town (even the VR version!)

Plus...
- Steam Deck optimisations so it is now fully supported
- Multiple other bug fixes and quality of life improvements

Enjoy the update and join our community to stay up to date with all of our exciting future plans to improve the game: https://discord.gg/3K3jWtCy3H


The Noun Town team 🎉

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2313720/Noun_Town_Language_Learning/