Tuesday, May 5, 2026; approx. 4:30 p.m. to 12:10 a.m.
Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play
The Firebase piggy bank bug
A bug that only showed up once the game went online: locally, the piggy bank correctly held and returned your coins; through Firebase, it reset them to zero instead. With Claude already at 68% of its weekly usage on a Monday, I switched to DeepSeek to chase it down.
Removing the IIFE, from the gym step machine
I’d identified the real root cause behind a run of conflicts: the whole game loads inside a local IIFE wrapper (an isolated JavaScript scope), and Story Mode’s variables were walled off inside it. I wanted everything moved into the global space instead. Claude had previously advised against that; polluting the global scope is generally bad practice; but it was causing more problems than it solved. I set Claude the task of rebuilding without the wrapper and tested the result on my phone from the gym’s step climber, mid-workout.
The ad-blocker discovery
Tonight closed out three days of confusion around the “watch ad” coin transfer. The symptom was inconsistent in a telling way: on mobile it worked, on desktop the ad modal froze and coins vanished. The design flaw underneath it was worse than the bug; coins were moved into the piggy bank the moment the ad pop-up opened, so any failure zeroed them out entirely.
DeepSeek’s fix was a pending-transaction pattern: coins stay in the wallet while the ad plays and only move to the piggy bank once it’s confirmed watched, with a guaranteed fallback to the last known wallet value if anything glitches; nothing can zero out unless a transaction is fully confirmed. Claude implemented DeepSeek’s plan. It still failed silently on desktop, worked instantly on mobile once GitHub had processed the update; which strongly suggested (though I couldn’t fully explain it that night) an ad blocker or desktop-only script interference, rather than a logic bug in the game itself.
Version 100
By 12:10 a.m. the watch-ad patch held, I’d swept up the last couple of residual bugs, and called it: a stable version 100. Played through every episode to check the bad guy’s moves; including the sticky glue, which does exactly what it’s meant to: slows you enough that the lava can catch you if you’re too low.
🎮 Game Rules Log: May 5, 2026
- Watch-ad coins are held as a pending transaction: only moved out of the wallet once the ad is confirmed watched, so a crash or refresh can never zero your coins
- Cross-device settings sync confirmed working (master volume set on desktop carried over to mobile)
- Sticky-glue platforms (from the bad guy) slow movement enough that you can die from the lava if caught too low
Photos from today
Read what happens next in the dev diary: the next entry.
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