Nubby's Number Factory News

[p]-Nubby Mobile is releasing on April 15, 2026
-For both iOS and Android devices [/p][p]-Phone and tablet compatible for both iOS and Android. I've even played it on my AYN Thor because that's android based and it ran very nicely (though, no controller support on launch, this is a feature I intend on implementing)[/p][p]-Paid version and lite version. (no third party ads or microtransactions on either version)[/p][p]-$4.99 USD for full version; same content as nubby on steam for the same price.[/p][p] -No cost for lite version; roughly the same content as demo on steam (lite version has up-to-date graphics, unlike the demo on steam)[/p][p]

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I don't believe the store pages are publicly visible yet on either platform because it's not going to be open for preorder at any point over the next 4 weeks.

Thank you for remaining hopeful and patient. It's been a long time coming and I'm looking forward to finally getting this in your hands,
~Mog[/p]

[p][/p][p]Greetings nubheads and nublings old and new,[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Today is Nubbyday... aka Nubby's first birthday! What a year! That kind of snuck up on me to be honest. I'd like to start by saying that it's probably been the most fun and significant year of my life in terms of career success. Heck, I was a junior in college one year ago and I didn't even have a career. Today I have the privilege of calling myself a full time indie developer. Of course, this is all thanks to nubby and everyone who has supported me as a game developer throughout this past year! I'm grateful for all of the memories made, friends met, lessons learned over the past year. It's my honor to bring you nubby and I wouldn't change a single thing if I could go back in time and do it again. Thank you for 1 really awesome year of nubby![/p][p][/p][p]In this announcement I will be revealing a couple upcoming fun things that myself and a few friends have put together for the real nubheads out there. Before that, I'll start with a brief word about the v1.4.4 patch that released for nubby yesterday.[/p][p][/p][p]Enjoy![/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Patch V1.4.4 (released 3/6/2026):[/p][p]==========[/p][p]Yesterday I released patch v1.4.4, which primarily added support in NNF for the Danish language! If you've got a Danish friend, let them know that nubby has landed in Denmark! I'm very pleased with the efforts of community member Rapandrasmus for the amazing work on the Danish localization! [/p][p][/p][p]Efforts for many more localizations are underway and those will hopefully be added to the game in the coming weeks/months. Thank you to all of the community members who have offered to volunteer, regardless of whether I could accept your offer. There's a lot of really cool people who play this game and simply want to help make it more accessible. It blows me away![/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Nubbyday Reveal #1: Nubby Stickers and Keychains Are Coming!:[/p][p]==========[/p][p]In honor of Nubbyday, you'll soon be able to wear nubby on your backpack and stick nubby related things on your wall! [/p][p][/p][p]You heard that right! I wasn't too interested in apparel merchandise like shirts or sweaters, but I figured that stickers and keychains would be a good fit for the type of people who are big fans of nubby. It's subtle, but ones of those if you know you know type of things. This merch drop is just a small thing that I, and a few other nubby lovers in the merch biz have put together.[/p][p][/p][p]If you're interested in picking up a keychain, some stickers, or both - they unfortunately won't be out for a couple months yet because they're being manufactured right now and will then need to ship. Rest assured, when they're available I will be loud about it here and on the community discord server so you can get one before they run out. Now for the fun part.. pictures![/p][p][/p][p]Firstly, the animation below shows what all 6 sticker varieties will look like. I personally made all of the art for these stickers in blender over the past few months. I hope you enjoy these designs because I had a great time making them :][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Next up nubby keychains! Here's a 3D render of our keychain design that I made in blender (we don't have them yet, but our order closely resembles this).[/p][p][/p][p]If you're super into nubby and just want another way to support me as a game developer, this will be your chance to do so and get some limited time nubby merch in the process! Thank you to everyone who's showed interest about this so far and pre-emptive thank you to everyone who will choose to support me![/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Nubbyday Reveal #2: Nubby's Steam Points Shop On The Way!:[/p][p]==========[/p][p]Number 2 is the steam community points shop! You'll be able to use your steam points to pick up some nubby themed animated steam avatars, avatar frames and steam profile backgrounds! Also, there will be steam trading cards for nubby. If you're super into nubby and super into steam points shop stuff, you won't have to wait much longer to deck out your profile with nubby stuff.[/p][p][/p][p]I don't have any visuals to show you for this right now because I'd like it to remain a complete surprise, but this is actually happening sooner than the nubby merch drop. Stay tuned for the official points shop launch happening in the next month or so.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Conclusion:[/p][p]==========[/p][p]That's all I've got for now. I made this post mostly as a thank you to the lovely nubby community. Side note, nubby is currently on sale for 50% off on steam as a celebratory nubby day special (to clarify - it will be on sale for the next couple days as well). Though these are just 2 *reveals* for now and not actual releases or anything that you can act on at the moment, I revealed them today as a way to recognize this day as a milestone for myself and for the game. Hopefully these two reveals get you excited for the near future![/p][p][/p][p]Lastly, the official nubby mobile release date is coming sometime in the next 1-2 weeks. Nubby mobile is so close that I can taste it..[/p][p]
Until next time, thanks for playing.
~Mog[/p]

Hello to all Danish nubby fans and everyone else,


Today I bring you patch v1.44 for Nubby's Number Factory which adds support for the Danish language! There are many more localizations yet to come to nubby, but all in due time. This is the second localization to hit NNF, following the implementation of Brazilian Portuguese a few weeks ago. I'm very pleased with the efforts of all volunteer translators from the nubby community who have very generously sacrificed their time and energy to making nubby globally accessible. Thanks to Rapandrasmus for the Danish localization, and thank you to everyone who has volunteered/offered to volunteer for this responsibility.

Lastly, tomorrow (3/7/2026) is the first-ever Nubbyday! March 7 marks 1 full year since Nubby's Number Factory was released on steam! To celebrate Nubbyday, I am going to be making an announcement here on steam where I'll be revealing a couple very fun and exciting nubby-related things. These reveals are not game content related or nubby mobile related, but rather some upcoming things that myself and a few others have been working hard to put together for the true nubby fans. If you return here tomorrow around 1:00PM CST time zone, you'll find this celebratory announcement!

Until then, thanks for playing!
~Mog







NNF v1.4.4 Patch Notes:
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Additions:
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-Added Danish localization to Nubby! Tell your Danish friends that having the ability to read English is no longer completely necessary for playing NNF on steam!




Fixes:
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-Fixed several grammatical errors in the default English game text. Apparently I don't know the difference between "it's" and "its" as a 22 year old man and I made this mistake a lot. If you're good at identifying improper usages of "it's" and "its" and you find any more of these typos, please report any errors you find to me via email ([email protected]) and describe where they appear in-game.

-Fixed a few minor grammatical errors in the Brazilian Portuguese localization for the game.
-Fixed a few minor errors that were present in the Brazilian Portuguese localization of NNF's steam page.

[p] My dearest nubs,

Welcome to the 14th edition of Nubby News! If you haven't been around since April/May of 2025 and you're here because you're craving your Weekly Nubby News fix, I regret to inform you that A) nubby news ain't weekly no more and B) nubby news has actually never been weekly and you are either misremembering that or losing your mind. Speaking of weeks, quite a few have gone by since I last spoke publicly about nubby, so I decided to mainly dedicate this edition of Nubby News to breaking my silence about... nubby's mobile port!!?!

Aside from the nubby mobile status update, I'm starting with a brief run down of last Thursday's v1.4.3 patch and also discussing localization plans for nubby. Enjoy!




V1.4.3 Patch:
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Over the past couple months I've kept working on NNF every now and then, primarily just fixing issues as they're reported to me. As of 2 days ago, I decided that my list of miscellaneous changes had grown long enough to warrant a patch, so I put out a patch! If you recall my announcement in Nubby News #13 about focusing my attention to new projects of mine, this patch is the sort of update that you can expect for the time being. That announcement does not however apply to nubby mobile because preparing the port for release is my top priority right now.

While no content updates are planned for nubby in the foreseeable future, I don't think I'm probably ever going to be done updating nubby to make technical / accessibility improvements. Thursday's patch v1.4.3 is a great example of such an update - including mainly bug fixes, the addition of the first of hopefully many localizations - Brazilian Portuguese, and a revamp of the cyborg nubby skin cosmetic artwork as per request of the original artist behind the cosmetic.

I kind of just glossed over the whole localization thing, but I really want to express how great I think it is that the text of nubby can be read in Brazilian Portuguese now! Shoutout to Frank Lopes, a localization volunteer of the NNF community for putting together the Brazilian Portuguese localization! Frank deserves all the credit for the great work!

If you're interested, here's the v1.4.3 patch notes.




Plans for Localization in NNF (And how you can help!):
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As for what to expect for nubby localizations moving forward, more languages are still yet to come and they are being added to the game as they are completed by volunteer community members. I am always looking for volunteers to help with localizing the in-game text and/or the nubby steam page text! If you speak English + another language fluently and are interested in localizing the game, contact me via email ([email protected]) or via discord (@mogdogblog). While I wish I could say yes to everyone, I can't guarantee that I will be able to accept your offer because I accept localization help on a first-come basis, with typically only one person / team working on one language at a time. Though, it doesn't hurt to ask if you're willing to help! I will try my best to respond to your message within 5 days.[/p][p]
Also, you do not need a background in programming or game development to help! It is pretty easy to start making progress once you get familiar with the process. I also supply in-depth instructions for localization and I am very responsive to any questions that come up. Regardless of whether I'm able to accept your help, I am very grateful for your willingness to volunteer your time and energy to make NNF globally accessible. Thank you, thank you!




Nubby Mobile News:
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Here we are! In the v1.4.3 patch notes linked above I mentioned that nubby's mobile port (ios & android) was "done, but not released yet". To clear the air around nubby mobile, I'd like to talk about what's been going on over the past few months with the port, and also talk about the current state of the port today, 2/21/26. Before I say anything, I'll start by saying that it is not my intention with this post to reveal the exact release date in which you will be able to play the mobile port (for reasons I will explain further down in this section).

To sum up the past 3-4 months of mobile port development - last November the port was done and sitting only a few weeks away from release. That was until I released v1.4 for nubby on steam in mid-November. As you may know, this single update took several months to develop and added a ton of content. Problem was, the mobile port was done... however the v1.4 update was not ported to mobile yet. Our options were to either release the port in mid-December without any of the v1.4 content, or we could take an extra 3-4 months to port v1.4 to mobile and release the port up to date with nubby on steam. Ultimately, I decided that it would be unfair to expect you to be happy with paying the same price as the pc version only to receive 75% of the content as you would on steam. I think a lot of people would have been disappointed with that. I hate delays, especially after 7-8 months of development. I think it's fair to be a little frustrated, but I hope you can see that I'm just trying to do what's right for the player. Thank you for being patient! We are almost there!

Fast forward through 3 months of porting v1.4 to mobile and here we are today! Today we are once again back at the same spot we were in last November, but now it's for real... The port is done for all devices and the only things left to do is to set up both store pages for the appstore & google play, then we launch! On both android and ios, there will be a free lite version of nubby as well as a full version that will cost $4.99 USD. The free lite version is basically a visually revamped clone of the demo on steam and the full version app is as close to a 1:1 copy of the full game on steam as we could manage.

Right now it's just a waiting game while we work on setting up the store pages and await google/apple approval of said store pages. If you've ever published a game on any major online marketplace, you'll know that the approval process for publishing a store page is extremely slow, frustrating, and demoralizing - and this is true for almost all major marketplace out there. Regardless, we're going to do the best we can and hope for a timely release. As soon as the store pages are posted, I'll probably dedicate a week or so to advertising the mobile port to build some wishlists and hype before release day comes. After that... we launch! Once the store pages are up, I'm gonna be making a handful of announcements on various platforms (including this one) to get the word out. If you truly still love and worship nubby, you will spread the word of nubby mobile and wishlist the app on your apple and/or android device. Nubby will know if you didn't.

This leads me into talking about why I can't give you a specific release day at the moment - despite being so close to launch. As much as I'd love to give you a date, I cannot responsibly say with any acceptable degree of accuracy what day the mobile port will be released. The release date depends on how fast apple and google approve the store pages. To at least leave you with some sort of vague estimate, I think in the worst case scenario we'd be waiting about 7 weeks at most. I hope it won't be that long, and chances are it won't be. I know that this is unfortunately a bit vague, but you can rest assured knowing that as soon as I know for sure when the launch date will be, I will be very loud about it.

That's all I've got to say about the port for now. Hopefully this clears things up a bit for the mobile port enthusiasts because there's been a lot of speculation surrounding the development status of the port. Every single day progress is being made by myself and my porting buddy, and that is the way it has been for the past 8-9 months of development.

To wrap this up, I think it's only fair for me to acknowledge that I have been a bit quiet about the port these past few months. I didn't really bother because I felt like there wasn't much news to update you guys about and it probably would have just sounded like: "yup we're still working on it". In hindsight, I can see why that may have caused some worry, so I apologize if that's been troublesome for you. To make up for the murkiness, if after reading this you still have questions about the mobile port please contact me via email ([email protected]) or via discord (@mogdogblog) and I'll personally respond to your question within 5 days. As long as it's not a question about when the release date of nubby mobile is, I'm an open book.




The End:
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That's all for today! As always, thank you so much for supporting my work! Also, thank you for staying patient with me throughout the development of nubby mobile! Hopefully this edition of nubby news quelled any fears you had regarding the whereabouts of the port.

Nubby is prepared to finally transcend the shackles of the format in which he was spawned.

Until next time,
~Mog

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Hello veteran nubheads and newly-assimilated nublings!

Today I break my silence to squeeze out a small patch which fixes some minor bugs and introduces the first localization for NNF - Brazilian Portuguese! If you've got a Brazilian friend, let 'em know that today marks the beginning of Nubby's renaissance in Brazil! I'd like to give a huge thank you to NNF community member and talented translator, Frank Lopes, for the incredible volunteer work on NNF's BRPT localization + NNF's steam page BRPT localization. If you're one of the 5,213 Brazilians who have purchased NNF, I hope this addition elevates your NNF experience!

If you are a translator and would like to volunteer to translate NNF, please contact me via email ([email protected]) or via discord (@mogdogblog). Note that there are already translations in the works for Spanish, Russian, and Norwegian, Polish, and Swedish. Unless I specify otherwise in the coming months, these languages are already covered by community volunteers. If you'd like to provide assistance but you're afraid that the technical side of translating a videogame will be above your technical experience level, let me assure you that it's not as complicated as you think it is. You do not need a background in game development or programming to help translate!

One last thing before the patch notes! If you're here looking for news on nubby mobile, this post sadly contains none.... BUT if you check back again around this time tomorrow (2/20), I'm posting a newsletter here on steam that is primarily going to be about nubby mobile (plus some fun news for nubby mega-fans about something great happening on Nubby's 1-year birthday on March 7, 2026). Obviously, the wait for NNF's mobile port has taken longer than we were all hoping for and I haven't talked publicly about why that is for a few months. As a result, some valid concerns have been raised in the nubby community about the whereabouts of the port. I've been so busy working on NNF's mobile port and developing my next title that I have neglected to publicly share news about the mobile port, so for that I am sorry. To quell any of your nubby-mobile related fears until I post tomorrow's newsletter, I'll leave you with this: It is done, but not quite released yet. We are so close!

Thanks for playing and I hope you appreciate the patch, especially if you're Brazilian!
~Mog





NNF v1.4.3 Patch Notes:
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(Note: When you download and launch v1.4.3, there should be no version compatibility issues with the previous version (v1.4.2). In other words, if you were running the latest version on steam, you can load an autosaved in-progress run without running into problems. I cannot speak for versions that came before v1.4.2, so fair warning if that applies to you.)



Additions:
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-Implemented the Brazilian Portuguese localization for NNF's in-game text.
Note: To set your expectations for the new BRPT localization and for all future localizations - the vast majority of in-game text you will encounter is translated, but it will not be 100% comprehensive. Everything fundamental to actually playing to game is translated, so ideally a non-english speaker should be able to understand and enjoy the core gameplay just as much as an English speaker would. That being said, there are a few exceptions where text will remain written in English because of technical limitations and linguistic boundaries. These exceptions are:
A) Graphical/artistic text (e.g. the big, red "Nubby's Number Factory" title logo in the middle of the title screen)
B) Text that cannot / should not be translated (e.g. character names, names of people in the game credits, puns)


-Added the localizations GUI from NNF's demo to the title menu for localization selection. There is only English and Brazilian Portuguese available right now, but hopefully that list will be longer in the future. Hit me up if you speak English + another language.



Fixes:
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-Fixed bug where squid/mollusk item reappear if they're sold by the burglar peg while they're transformed into another item.

-Fixed a small visual bug that sometimes occurs when entering nubby mart where the freeze button fades into frame faster than the surrounding shop GUI. The freeze button fades in at the same rate 100% of the time now.

-Fixed a typo in the item description of the upgraded "Rubber Chicken+" item. The typo in question was a misspelling of the word "and". ("an" changed to "and")

-Fixed a typo in the speedy perk description where it repeats the word, "slots" twice in a row.

-Fixed a typo in the description of the cosmetic nubby skin, "Flutty Nubby". There was a missing "to" in the phrase "Now we have [to] leave the costume on him (...)".

-Minor adjustment to the on-screen position of the achievements-disabled-warning-text for when a custom seed is configured on the gamemode menu
-Slightly adjusted vertical position of the text mainly. Purpose of change was to give localized text more wiggle room.


Other changes:
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-Updated the visual appearance of the "Cyborg Nubby" cosmetic nubby skin. The community member who was responsible for designing this skin created it over a year ago and was no longer happy with how it looked, so they revamped it. In my opinion, I think the new skin is an improvement and better represents what Nubby would look like as a cyborg. If you've unlocked this cosmetic and use it regularly, I hope you enjoy the makeover!

-Relocated the wiki/discord buttons on the title screen from the bottom right corner of the screen to the top left corner to make room for the localizations GUI.