Wednesday, May 13, 2026; approx. 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play
Turning Lance’s idea into Timer Mode
Lance’s Time Complete idea from May 4 (250 platforms, four-minute timer, lava rises to the top and kills you if you don’t make it) became today’s build target, expanded considerably. In my version, climbing never actually runs out; instead, the lava’s rise speed itself accelerates the higher you go: +1% every 20 platforms, +10% by platform 100, +100% (double speed) by platform 1,000.
I disabled lava “search” behaviour at the start so the ground doesn’t creep back up to you early: you get a genuine head start before the lava begins catching up.
Leaderboard-driven difficulty
The mode ships with a leaderboard and default target times; Lance settled on four minutes for 250 platforms as the starting benchmark. Beat it, and your time becomes the new target for the next player, effectively turning the mode into a live “race the best” ladder: if someone reaches 100 platforms in five seconds instead of two minutes, the next player only gets five seconds before the lava catches them.
🎮 Game Rules Log: May 13, 2026 (Timer / “Race the Clock” Mode)
- Climbing is infinite: no fixed platform count to reach
- Lava speed increases 1% per 20 platforms climbed, reaching 2x speed by platform 1,000
- Checkpoints every 100 platforms up to 5,000, marked by a flag-waving animation
- Lava-search disabled at the start, giving a genuine head-start window
- Leaderboard best times set the pace for the next run: beat the record, and it becomes the new target everyone has to beat
- A “Lava Surge” event and boulder-toss animation trigger when you cross certain platform thresholds
Finished by 5:30 p.m., after three or four prompt iterations; mostly settings changes on top of the existing game rather than new mechanics. When I showed it to Lance, he wanted Rocket Mode instead (“No, I want to see rocket mode”); a mode we’d already agreed, back on May 3, wasn’t going to happen.
Read what happens next in the dev diary: the next entry.
Diary Of A Mad Chaos is a daily diary written from March 1996 until today, of which individual books and book series have been created, namely “The Lost Years” an exploration of young, entwined love, the “Wubao In China (猎艳奇缘)” book series which provides an extensive comparative analysis of the cultural differences between Eastern and Western societies, and the book titled “Foreigner (华人)” an exploration of race relations in Australia.
