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Full Nubby's Number Factory update
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Whoa, it's been a while! Perhaps a little more than a week. Despite the misleading title, I'm gonna keep calling this blog "Weekly Nubby News" for old time's sake I guess.
In all seriousness, apologies for the wait on this one. When I take more time than usual to release a news post, it's usually not because I'm forgetting to write or feeling too lazy - typically it's due to a lack of things to write about. I hope this edition of WNN serves to quell the recent concerns that I've died or abandoned nubby. It has officially been 2 years since I started work on the game, and Nubby continues to pop the pegs of my heart :-)
Now, on to the news!
(But first, look at the canonized nubby biology, credits to @maionese on discord)
V1.4 Progress:
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Progress on V1.4 persists! I faced a number of major hiccups that slowed production in mid-August, but I've hit some big milestones recently, so that's been encouraging! Among other aspects of V1.4, I'm coming close to finishing up work on the final nubby challenge. Well - technically the final 5 challenges. I'll talk about that now!
The Nubby Trials:
========== The ultimate test of your nubbing abilities has an official name: "The Nubby Trials". A long time ago I mentioned that I wanted to add a sort of "end-game" challenge to nubby that would give those who complete the challenges in the current version of nubby some extra stuff to work on. After a lot of prototyping, I finally landed on the nubby trials. Basically, the nubby trials are a set of 5 challenges, with each challenge containing 5 mini-challenges for you to complete in a single run. The nubby trials are going to be a lot easier to grasp once you see them in-game, so I'll show you! (Image of nubby trials menu gui below, specifics of the level shown are subject to change by release)
You'll notice in the screenshot that the letters N,U,B,B, and Y are important in the nubby trials. Your goal in each level of the nubby trials is to spell the word "NUBBY". If you obtain all the letters, you win and unlock the next level of the nubby trials! There are 5 levels that increase in difficulty. When you've selected a nubby trials level to play on, you start the run without any letters. One by one, you obtain letters by completing tasks by their required rounds (the tasks are referred to as trials). This is why I referred to each level of the nubby trials as a collection of 5 mini challenges. The image above shows all the tasks required to obtain each letter for level 1 of the nubby trials. The 5 trials you must complete to win vary from level to level. You're currently seeing the tasks for level 1.
Some trials depend on you limiting yourself in some way over the course of many rounds. In the picture above, examples of this are the first trial (red letter "N") and the second trial (orange letter "U"). In the case of the red letter "N", you will obtain this letter after beating round 33, under the condition that you have only used 1 or less items at a time from rounds 1 through 33. Once you've obtained the letter "N", you're free to use as many items as you want. However, now you have to worry about the
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