Greetings nubblygubbywubblybubblygrubblys,


Welcome to Weekly Nubby News #9! In this edition, I'm going to be talking about what I've been working on for V1.4 and sharing the results from the nubby science poll.


Progress on V1.4:
==========Lately I've been working away at V1.4, the next big content update for nubby. I thought I'd share something cool I'm currently finishing up!


Meet "Jelly", the most involved food item I've ever added to nubby.

Jelly is a very special little guy. As of now, the effect for jelly is "Eat -> Upgrades cafe food items that are currently available for purchase".

Yes, you heard that right! This means that every food item in cafe nubby now has an upgraded counterpart, including the new jelly item. Upgraded foods work slightly different than upgraded items. Items from nubby mart / black market are designed to be equally as powerful (or slightly more powerful) than having 2 copies of an item. Upgraded foods are a bit more variable than upgraded items in this regard. Because the effects of food items don't always work with the "2x as powerful" logic, I had to get creative with some upgraded foods.

For example, the moldy sandwich food item that you can find while playing on balogna tony randomizes the triggers of all items in your inventory. For the upgraded counterpart of moldy sandwich, the tentative effect is: "Eat -> Randomizes the triggers of items in slots 2-7. The item in slot 1 is not affected". In this case, the advantage of eating an upgraded moldy sandwich is that you could keep an item that has a really good trigger in slot 1 to not risk its trigger being randomized to something less ideal. I won't share every upgraded food effect here, but basically you'll find a lot of variability in upgraded food items, further than just "twice as good as the non-upgraded version".

Ok, now on to the nubby science!

Nubby Science Poll Results:
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A couple weeks ago I shared a poll with you all that asked questions about your preferences / dislikes in nubby (e.g. favorite board layout, favorite item, least favorite item, etc.). Over 6,500 people submitted responses to the poll, which is spectacular. Thank you!

I said I'd share the results in the next nubby news, so here you go!

(Huge shoutout to nubby community members: Arny, rccat, and SovietRedOnion for putting time and effort into gathering and presenting the data!)

Wrap up + thank you:
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As always, thanks for reading and thank you for supporting me and my work! I hope you find amusement in the poll results. For the most part, I wasn't too surprised about the top favorites and least favorites for things, but its still very interesting to see how the community is divided in personal preferences.

Also, to anyone who has pre-ordered the nubby plush, I sincerely thank you for your support! I'm super excited for everyone to receive their nubby in the mail!

That's all from me for now. I'll keep dropping V1.4 devlogs in future editions of WNN as I make progress, so stay tuned, nubbywubblies.

~Mog

Yup, you heard it here, nubheads. The time has come! The nubby plush is available now (7/15/25) through August 5th at 12pm PT.

Here's a link to the store page: https://youtooz.com/products/nubby-plush-9-inch

I hope everyone who decides to purchase a nubby plush enjoys their plush as much as I'm currently enjoying mine. It's the centerpiece of my living room area and it's a real conversation starter!

Wow, I have been really excited to share this news with you all for a long time!

Nubby plush is happening! I have been in collaboration with the brand, "Youtooz", working to design the nubby plush! The plush will be available for pre-order on July 15th, though I do have a free giveaway opportunity to share with you that you can participate in now!

Three partcipants will be selected on July 15th to receive a free nubby plush! Follow this link to enter into the contest: https://youtooz.com/pages/nubbys-number-factory-giveaway

I am super ecstatic about this plush and it's been a dream of mine to have some official nubby merch up for sale. Here's a picture of me with the plush so you can get a feel for the size and color:



Thanks to Youtooz, this dream has become a reality. Even if you can't get your own nubby plush, I wholeheartedly thank you for playing nubby and being a part of this lovely community.

Greeting nubblywubblybubblies,

Welcome to WNN #8! I hope you've all been doing well since I last checked in. This edition of WNN is going to be relatively small because there haven't been many happenings, but I still felt it was important to give some updates on some upcoming events.

Also, at the bottom of this post is an opportunity for you to contribute to nubby science. More on that below.

Upcoming patch: V1.3.2 (the autosave patch):

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Game autosaves have been a long time coming. I think this is the longest I've ever spent working on a single feature for Nubby. After 3 weeks of debugging, autosaves are nearing completion. I still have some issues to work out with the autosave system, but things are shaping up nicely. I have received some very generous help from a friend with this feature, so hats off to him for helping me get this out as soon as possible.

Autosaves are the biggest feature in this patch, but not the only change. I'm also looking to fix some bugs from V1.3.1 and make a few balance changes. Whether or not I decide to make any content additions will be dependent on how much leftover time I have before the release date, which is going to be on Sunday, June 29th.

I'm really looking forward to getting this hurdle behind me so I can start working on V1.4, which will enter production as soon as V1.3.2 is released. Because V1.3.2 took longer than I expected, I'm adjusting the timeframe for the release of V1.4 to August instead of the end of July. Thank you for being patient, I promise to show pictures of development in upcoming editions of WNN :]

Nubby Science:

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Some members of the community and I have created a survey that asks about your demographic and preferences in nubby (pegboard layout, nubby physics) purely for our own curiosity. The survey is through google forms and is anonymous. We are accepting answers for the next 2 weeks, and then we will put together a presentation or something that discusses our findings in trends and patterns. In the next edition of WNN, I'll share the results of our experiment with you all, in case you were curious too.

Here is the link to the survey, I think this will be interesting:
Take the survey if you want![docs.google.com]


Conclusion:==========

That's all for now, thank you for reading and continuing to support my work! On the release day of V1.3.2, I will be sharing patch notes as always.

I appreciate you!
~Mog