Happy Steam Deck launch day!

To celebrate, we've released an update that provides Steam Deck support for Nom Nom Galaxy, ensuring that your soup factories are fully accessible on the go.

Today's update includes changes including:

- Text selectable on the Steam Deck
- Steam Deck control support

There's never been a better time to explore new planets and expand your base!

Salutations, Astroworkers!

The introduction of custom planets seems to have broken 'The Great Business Soup Off' achievement, but today's update should remedy that.

Many thanks as always for your patience and support!

Greetings, Astroworkers!

A number of you have reported getting a black screen when trying to access the options menu. Today’s update addresses this and hopefully fixes the issue.

It's been an elusive bugger, so if you find the problem still occurring, let us know in our Flies in the Soup - Bug Reports forum. Please include the following details about your PC and what was happening when the problem occurred:

Key PC specs:

• CPU
  
• GPU
  
• Memory
  
• DirectX version
  
• OS
  
• Screen resolution and refresh rate
  
• Number of monitors in your setup

Other details:

• When/where did the bug occur?
  
• Can you reproduce it?

We’d also love to hear from you if this does fix the problem for you. Let us know!

Thanks as always for your patience and support!

Astroworkers, we have returned! Today’s update includes the ability to make and play on custom planets, a feature requested by many! Yes, you can now design your own stages to share with friends! Here we’ll explain the steps necessary to carve out your own section of the galaxy.


To create a custom planet:

1) Open the custom planets folder located within your Nom Nom Galaxy folder (Steam\steamapps\common\NomNomGalaxy\custom_planets)

2) Create a new folder here for your custom planet. Folder names can include standard alphanumeric characters as well as spaces, hyphens (-), underscores (_), and the pound sign (#).

3) The custom planets folder contains a file named NomNomGalaxy_palette.pdf which shows what pixel colors correspond to what map features.

Using the color palette info, make your own planet in an image editor like MS Paint. One pixel corresponds to one map tile, and different pixel colors correspond to different kinds of map tiles. For example, black pixels are standard terrain, grey pixels are stone blocks, and blue pixels are water.

The placement of rare plants, animal nests, and certain creatures is determined by single pixels. Note that some require a certain amount of space for proper placement. In the above screenshot the orange pixel representing a mammoth is placed above the "I love soup" platform due to its large size.

4) Save your custom planet as a PNG file and add “_map” to the end of the file name (example: “Custom Planet_map.png” for a stage called “Custom Planet”).

5) Restart Nom Nom Galaxy and your new stage should appear in the list of custom planets accessible via the SoupCo Planet Database planet.



Your planet design may not work well (or at all) on your first attempt, but don’t give up! Trial and error are key. There are also a few things you can do to build a better world:

-As a general guideline, maps shouldn’t exceed 160,000 pixels. For example, current maps include sizes such as 400x400, 320x500, and 250x640.

-The planet background and foreground colors are currently randomized, so if you're not happy with the results try changing a pixel. One small change may do the trick.

- Make sure the bottom layer of your planet is filled in. While it’s possible to make floating islands (as demonstrated in one of the samples included), you’ll still need sturdy ground.

- Give yourself enough matter. No matter how lovely your planet is, you won’t be able to build an equally lovely factory without enough raw materials.

- Remember, factories aren’t waterproof! Getting water in your factory can shut everything down. Of course, you might think of a way to overcome it...

Post your best creations! We’ll be on the lookout for strange and interesting planets to share on Twitter and Facebook!

We've also made a number of improvements and bug fixes!


- Added mouse support for the maintenance menu (options are now clickable).
- Added mouse support for the company name entry field at the start of the game.
- Added ability to plant ingredients with the X button (Xbox format controller).
- Added ability to rotate construction parts with the mouse wheel.
- Added ability to close the office menu with the same key used to open it.



- Updated on-screen UI hint for “Throw” to the left mouse button to help clarify that throwing direction is determined by pointer position when using mouse and keyboard.
- Newly acquired gum is now sorted with the same type instead of being added in chronological order.



- Changed Fever Time music.


- Fixed an issue that caused players to get stuck in the tutorial.
- Fixed an issue where players could join a multiplayer session before a second controller option was available.
- Fixed an issue with the options menu displaying invalid resolutions for the active display in multiple-monitor setups.
- Fixed an issue where attempting to click options at the bottom of the key bindings menu could inadvertently select a list item in the background instead.
- Fixed an issue in which the game would crash at startup when the settings file wasn’t deserialized properly.
- Fixed an issue where the game would crash when the window was resized.
- Fixed an issue found to desync multiplayer sessions.
- Fixed minor localization issues.
- Fixed other miscellaneous bugs.

We hope this update enhances your SoupCo profit margins to the max!

Greetings, Astroworkers!

As promised, we have an update for you! It addresses a number of issues you've helped us pinpoint while improving the game's UI and overall performance.

Here's the breakdown:

What’s New

UI Improvements:

• Added ability to change controls and key bindings from the pause menu’s options screen.
  
• Added ability to change display mode and resolution from the pause menu’s options screen.
  
• Added ability to navigate the options screen with both keyboard and gamepad regardless of which control scheme is currently selected for gameplay.
  
• Added keyboard support for the construction and research menus.
  
• Changed default pause key to Esc, which functions with both the keyboard and gamepad control schemes.
  
• Changed default confirm key to Enter.
  
• Added ability to rotate construction parts with the arrow keys or your key bindings for left and right movement (e.g., A and D by default). We hope this improves usability for left-handed players using keyboard and mouse.
  
• Added ability to rebind the “stamp object” key used during construction.

Performance and Optimization:

• The game will now default to the dedicated GPU on NVIDIA Optimus and AMD Dual Graphics laptops.
  
• Multiplayer games will no longer drop to 30 fps.
  
• Removed the option to run the game at 30 fps.
  
• Added the following graphics quality presets to the options menu:
  High: Enables all post-processing effects.
  Medium: Disables anti-aliasing.
  Low: Disables anti-aliasing, fake 3D, dust, fog.

Fixes:

• Fixed issues with language and resolution settings not saving properly.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused players to get stuck in the tutorial when using keyboard and mouse.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused players to get stuck in story scenes if a controller wasn’t connected.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused players to get stuck in the key bindings menu.
  
• Fixed an issue with the construction menu’s cursor behavior in online multiplayer.
  
• Fixed an issue with the laser tower targeting nearby items and friendly robots as enemies.
  
• Fixed an issue with “magnet” indicators incorrectly appearing in places where construction parts would not actually stick.
  
• Fixed an issue with DirectInput controllers crashing the game.
  
• Fixed miscellaneous crashes related to the stun tower and tourist bus, amongst others.
  
• Fixed minor localization issues.
  
• Fixed other miscellaneous bugs.

There's still much to be done and we'll be tackling it as resources allow, so stay tuned!

As always, please let us know what you think in your comments here, our Steam community, Facebook[www.facebook.com], or Twitter.

If you have bugs to report, please see this post for details on the info we need and then post to our Flies in the Soup - Bug Reports forum.

Much love and gratitude for your patience and support!

A big thanks to all the players of Nom Nom Galaxy! Just a quick note to say that we are actively working on an update for a number of the issues that have been brought up and will post an update very soon.

Patch Day, Astroworkers!

We have a small patch this week to address some save data issues as well as fix some problems that were causing black screens for some of you. We've also brought back GSA-002, the 2nd tutorial planet, which includes some more advanced gameplay tips. This planet previously required completion to advance, but is now optional.


We're continuing to work on improving online stability and should have another patch later this month.


Version 1.01 Change log


Fixed bug where client progress data was overwritten with host progress data.

• Condition

Client changed an option on the pause menu, which was then autosaved.

• Fix

Changed not to overwrite client data with host data.


Fixed bug where client factory data was overwritten with host factory data.

• Condition

If the host disconnects for some reason, the host migrates to another person but the original host's data overwrites the new hosts data.

• Fix

Will display an error message and pause the game when a host disconnect is detected, then back out to the planet select screen when the dialog box is closed.


Fixed bug where game crashed when starting SOOP with a conquest factory

• Condition

Data saved with a dirt block inside a factory (in item state)

• Fix

Changed not to crash


Fixed bug where game crashed when resuming SOOP game

• Condition

Invalid data saved when exiting pause menu

• Fix

Improved data load


Gameplay Adjustments

• GSA-002 (2nd tutorial) returned, made optional

Other bug fixes

• Fixed bug where game did not run properly in Steam offline mode
• Fixed bug where game crashed when choosing Control Map on in-game options menuグ
• Fixed bug affecting scrolling on leaderboards
• Fixed bug where Very Yummy soups were not counting toward Astropins
• Fixed bug where conquest factory was loaded when "no factory" option was chosen in SOOP

 

Well Astroworkers, the time has finally come for you to venture into the expanse of the Galaxy and feed the hungry masses! Nom Nom Galaxy ver. 1.00 is now open for business!

It's been a long journey since we first released on Early Access almost a year and a half ago - even longer if you count our time as PixelJunk Inc when this blog first started. We've learned a lot along the way! Two PAX Prime attendances in the Indie MEGABOOTH, awards at Brazil's Independent Games Festival and GDC China's Independent Game Festival, appearances at SXSW 2015, Gamescom 2014, PSX 2014, BitSummit 2013 & 2014, Indiecade 2014 and EGX 2014... whew! We've been hoping all over letting people sample the soup! Add to that the huge contributions that all of our Early Access players have added and we fell like we've got a soup that's been seasoned by the best Astroworkers on the planet.

The full release of Nom Nom Galaxy adds:

• Complete campaign with 27 different worlds to explore
• Improved online 4P co-op
• Galactic Challenge Mode with rotating challenges that earn you Galactic Gum to use in Conquest and S.O.O.P Sim modes
• Steam Leaderboards
• Steam Trading Cards
• Steam Backgrounds
• Steam Emoticons
• Steam Achievements

Of course, the work for an Astroworker is never done, so we'll be continuing to improve Nom Nom Galaxy over the next few months. There are a lot of things still be requested in the forums that we'd like to address. I don't want to get into details now, but we're hoping to add a few modes to keep the soup flavors just as interesting as the first taste.

To celebrate the launch, we've got a week-long 20% discount on Nom Nom! Head over to Steam and check it out!

[nomnomgalaxy.com]Online bug fixes, improvements

• When invited to a NNG throught the Steam interface, you will now automatically join the session
• Fixed the player kick function
• The number of enemies will now increase based on the number of players in the game
• In order to reduce lag during multiplayer sessions, the game will now automatically reduce frame rates to 30fps until all players are in sync

Other bug fixes, improvements

• Mouse functionality in menus (prompts at bottom right, etc.) improved
• Improved Japanese translation and added missing text
• Players will no longer fall off of ladders at the start of a new day
• The pause menu will now accurately display for the player that paused the game (if 2P paused the game, for example)
• If you start a new company with a company name that already exists, an overwrite confirmation dialog will appear
• Fixed a bug that occurred when switching from windowed to full screen mode
• Another stage of growth has been added to grass, making it easier to understand when it is fully grown
• Fixed a bug where defeated Resistance enemies were not added to totals
• News flashes will now include the amount of market share that can be gained or lost because of trending ingredients
• When using mouse and keyboard controls and opening the maintenance menu, players will no longer move when pressing "A" or "D"
• Players with multiple save data files will no longer be able to select planets that haven't been opened on that save file
• Players with multiple save data files will now have their keybindings saved across all profiles
• Increased the number of keys that can be rebound in the options menu
• Fixed a bug preventing players from using left click to throw after changing the keybinding
• Fixed an issue where having the left mouse button held down when a dialog appeared caused a choice to be selected when the button was released
• Fixed a bug causing the game to crash if Jack was attacked by Pinapurana
• Fixed a bug preventing players from zooming out for screenshots with keyboard controls