Noun Town Language Learning News

Some small fixes in this launch (our time is mainly being spent putting in the ability to learn ENGLISH, which should come out in a week or two!)

Anyway, here are the notes - as every, come join us on Discord to discuss more!

• KIOSK - When you 100%'ed a room, the noun kiosk would break. Now it says 100% complete!
  
• SPEECH REC: SR has been adjusted in Japanese to fix a bunch of small errors, such as 17 not working correctly
  
• LESSON - Sometimes, getting answers wrong in the test still allow you to pass it. Now you must get them all right! Hohoho.
  
• NUMBERS- Second stage of finding robot parts wouldn't take controller inputs automatically. Now does!
  
• LESSONS - Clothes store and Supermarket lessons did not appear for users. Now do!
  
• CAFE - Unable to correctly learn CD due to word being in lowercase when spoken. Fixed!
  

A few more fixes from bugs picked up by players this week, as well as some UX tweaks:

• Numbers robots: halved speed and add small explosion radius when trying to hit them
  
• Animals: too many caused framerate drop. Fixed!
  
• CAFE: Possible to get stuck behind the Learning Rush machine. Fixed!
  
• Streak calculation is incorrect: now streaks are correctly counted (no data lost)
  
• SPORTS HALL - “bat”s (animal) seem to spawn from boxes + break things. Now spawning "bat" (as in baseball) not bat (as in vampire)
  
• SPANISH DATA: cleaned up the formatting of some learning tips
  
• LEARNING KIOSK: On the "All items" page, you can now play the object's audio!
  
• JAPANESE SPEECH: "Futari desu" was returning as "ninin desu". Fixed!
  
• JAPANESE SPEECH: Swan was always returning as "White bird" (Shiratori) instead of "Swan" (Hakucho). Fixed!
  
• INBOX: Inbox alert now only shows when unread mail is in inbox
  
• JAPANESE DATA: Romaji error in a cafe lesson now resolved
  
• ISLAND RESORT AREA: Collider by bridge now fixed, no falling in the hole for you guys.
  
• RESORT CHROMOEMITTER: Player can glitch into a stuck location. Not anymore!
  
• ISLAND BEACH: Gap allows player to get stuck in water. Not anymore!
  
• LEARNING KIOSK: "Learn more words" button now becomes active after completing all your daily goals, without having to reload the scene
  
• ZOO: Noun Summary ticks were missing
  
• DICTIONARY: Can now play the audio of the word from within the dictionary
  
• TUTORIAL: Japanese text was getting cut-off on the mic check. Fixed!
  
• JAPANESE ROMAJI x2: Some questions had incorrect romaji (nani instead of nan). Fixed!
  

Another hotfix patching bugs players have let us know about. Please keep them coming!

• NOUN LEARNING FOR LAST WORDS: The game would ask you to learn five learns, but sometimes there were only 4 or fewer left to do. Now it is dynamic and shows the correct number.
  
• OBJECT HIGHLIGHTING UI: This would sometimes show when you were in other screens. Now fixed
  
• SCREEN TEARING for some users: You can now set your VSYNC in SETTINGs.
  
• UI: If your mouse was hovering over a button, you couldn't used WASD to select another option. Now fixed.
  
• AUTOPASS Disable: Autopass sometimes would not turn off when the user turned it off. Now it does!
  
• SPEECH REC FEEDBACK: Sometimes we showed players "NOT HEARD", when we met to show "NOT QUITE". So, we were hearing the word, but the sound was not quite the right word, rather than the mic not working.
  
• FABRICATOR 4 TOUCHPAD: Some players couldn't open the fabricator as they don't have a middle mouse button. Now you can push F to open it!
  
• SPEECH REC ISSUE WITH "CD": the word CD had issues, now resolved.
  
• WORKSHOP SCREEN: We were showing the wrong number of bolts per number. Now fixed.
  
• PIG OBJECT: The pig object had problems. Now it doesn't.
  
• NOUN REVIEW "MAYBE LATER": Clicking “Maybe Later” now shows a default button for controller users
  
• LEARNING RUSH SCORE: Could clip in front of characters. Now doesn't.
  
• SPEECH RECOGNITION FEEDBACK: Object name + feedback would get cut-off. Now doesn't.
  
• DELIVERY GAME: Exiting vehicle after waiting for delivery fail timeout will lock the player from moving. Now fixed.
  
• DELIVERY GAME VFX: Re-added VFX for exiting car when reaching checkpoint
  

The cooker item was causing the Constructor mode and Learning Rush game to glitch. Now resolved!

NOUN TOWN IS OUT NOW! 🎉

You can check it out here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2313720

And join the Discord here

We hope you love it! 😁 This is just the start for Noun Town and we plan to add more and more content and languages over the coming months and years.

The Noun Town team