NOODS news & patch notes

Build v2.5.0 - Lily is Learning!

We’ve made Lily more interactive by watching and learning how you use your desktop more.

✨What’s New:

• Lily watches what you’re doing and makes additional comments

• Tooltips added throughout main menu and sub menus

🔨Fixed Bugs:

• Dialogue file implementation

• Clear all checkboxes on checklists button fix

• House in front option in settings

🐝Known Bugs:

• Checklist inconsistent capitalization on header

Build v2.4.0 - Blocklist Update

We are introducing a new highly requested feature…the BLOCKLIST! You can now set timers on websites and apps. Use Focus Mode when you want to block all websites and apps that are on your list. Click the “taped window” on the house menu to get started.

****✨What’s New:

• Blocklist feature

• House menu update

🔨Fixed Bugs:

• To-do list insert new line above fix

• To-do list increase character name

• Save verification patch to prevent possible save corruption

• Updated audio system to load properly and have better performance on MacOS

• Mailbox refreshes the state when you go back to inbox

🐝Known Bugs:

• On/off flag on certain alarms not saving state

😘Requests:

• Tell us what you think of the new blocklist feature

📢Community Shout-Outs:

• Thank you for sending in your applications for the summer internship positions!

✨What’s New:

We have overhauled the “destroy window” overall flow to include a dropdown window selector feature to make it easier! Click the "broken window" button on the house menu to get started. We also included a huge swath of bug fixes focused on Mac.

🔨Fixes and Squashed Bugs:

• Destroy bug fixes on mac and windows for window selection

• Holiday achievements were not getting awarded properly

• Lily’s home was appearing offscreen on certain monitor configurations

• Dropdown menus were formatted incorrectly in some areas

• Settings fixes for audio options regarding Lily’s speech

• Fixed some audio glitches on macOS

🐝Known Active Bugs:

• On/off flag on certain alarms not saving state

• Mailbox labels showing “NEW” and “READ”

• Destroy function not working consistently

• Some saving issues with cloud steam saves for developer testing branches

😘Requests:

• We are looking to do paid beta tester interviews! If interested, please send us an email at [email protected] with the subject line “Beta Tester Interview Request”

📢Community Shout-Outs:

• Thanks to our first set of beta tester interviews!

✨What’s New:

The wait is finally over! We know so many of you have been itching to hang out with Lily on macOS, and we’ve been working around the clock to make it happen. While the Tahoe update threw us a few curveballs and delayed our original launch, we’ve cleared the hurdles.

NOODS for Mac is officially live! Grab your MacBook and dive in.

🔨Fixes and Squashed Bugs:

• Retroactive fix for holiday steam achievements

• Lily dragging around on Windows in certain states

• Improved performance on Windows

• Fixed the problem where the home would not switch over if you swapped monitor option

• Fixed questioning/wavemeek not looping properly when used as an alarm or timer

• Fixed alarms not triggering under certain conditions

• Added visual cue to alarms to make it easier to know if it is going off or not

• Fixed alarm/timer audio not looping

• Fixed weird bug/crash when stopping alarm/timer audio

• Fixed Help menu appearing out of bounds

🐝Known Active Bugs:

• On/off flag on certain alarms not saving state

• Mailbox labels showing “NEW” and “READ”

• Destroy function not working consistently

😘Requests:

Since this is our grand debut on Mac, we need your eyes peeled for bug watch duty! Please let us know how the build is running on your specific setup. Whether it’s buttery smooth or you hit a snag, your feedback helps us polish this version to perfection.

📢Community Shout-Outs:

A massive, heartfelt thank you to our incredible beta testers! Your tireless bug-hunting and feedback on the Mac build are the only reasons we're launching today. You all rock!

Build v2.0.2 - Early Access Patch

A patch for minor bug fixes.

🔨Fixed Bugs:

• Steam Achievements fix for updated API on windows and upcoming mac build.

🐝Known Bugs:

• On/off flag on certain alarms not saving state

• Mailbox labels showing “NEW” and “READ”

• to-do list headers not saving in menu title

Build v2.0.1 - Early Access Halloween Patch

Happy Halloween! We are rolling out a set of bug fixes and a new minimize window button! We are currently underway with the refactor and the Mac build of NOODS!

🔨 Fixed Bugs:

• Steam Achievements fix for updated API

• Less crashing from windows interaction

• Stopwatch and pomodoro timing bug

• Halloween achievement working

🐝 Known Bugs:

• On/off flag on certain alarms not saving state

• Mailbox labels showing “NEW” and “READ”

😘 Requests:

• Let us know if you get the Halloween achievement for Steam

📢 Community Shout-Outs:

• Thanks for letting us know the Halloween steam achievement wasn’t working on Discord!

This is one of our most exciting updates to date. We have been heads down this summer to refactor NOODS based on the community’s feedback of the app running too slow. The purpose of NOODS is to run it idle in the background as you work on your computer. We have refactored it for Windows to run much faster, fix memory leak issues, plus a whole swath of bug fixes. We still have many more bugs to go, some tricky ones as well.

This summer, we’ve been heads-down making NOODS faster, smoother, and ready for long idle runs while you work or game. Thanks to your feedback, we tracked down the slowdown issues and gave our Windows build a full refactor.

We’ve still got some tricky bugs to tackle, but this update is a huge leap forward.

Next up, we’re diving into two of the most requested community features:

• No new features; just bug squashing!

• ]Infinite loading screen bug

• NOODS multi-threading makes it be recognized as a background process (go to task manager to exit)
• Memory leak (currently work-in-progress in refactor)
• Destroy target (shifting screen; currently work-in-progress)
• Full screen grabbing (currently work-in-progress)
• Dialogue timing and freezing
• Thrown window getting minimized and then can not return

• Check out the to-do list stability!

• Thanks for checking us out at Fanime Con!

• Two new animations for Lily - new climbing idle animation and mischievous
• New mailbox UI and sorting

• Checklist indenting, inserting, and deleting line entries
• Startup crash bug for monitor recognition
• Settings not opening
• Tutorial clarity

• Memory leak (currently work-in-progress)
• Destroy target (shifting screen; currently work-in-progress)
• Full screen grabbing (currently work-in-progress)
• Dialogue timing and freezing
• Thrown window getting minimized and then can not return

• Thanks for checking us at Pax East this month!

• ✅ To-do checklists
• ⏲️ Pomodoro timer & stopwatch
• 🔔 Alarms & reminders
• 📸 Screenshot & selfie system
• 💥 Window destruction (in-progress chaos)
• 🦝 Lily the raccoon’s debut desktop takeover
• 🔊 Original audio & pixel FX
• 🎮 Hidden minigame(s)
• ⚙️ Settings & feedback/report tools

• Adding checklist items formatting
• ”Destroy” feature is still work-in-progress; would like feedback on this
• Throwing windows animations