Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | A New Death Screen and Layered Map Backgrounds (June 24, 2026)

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Wednesday, June 24, 2026


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A restless day, but a good death screen

Not every session is a burst of motivation; this one started scattered, ad and monetization work feeling disorganised and hard to hold in one head. Still made progress: a new death screen design in Claude Design, with skulls, crossbones and flares in the background, built straight into the app without needing an APK rebuild to preview it.

Layered story-map backgrounds

Later, momentum returned around a genuinely striking feature: breaking the mountain map into layered backgrounds by altitude; a lava base near the bottom, fire caves roughly 200 levels up, jungle slopes with vents, ash and palm silhouettes higher still, a cloud layer with blue sky breaking through near the top, and a starry summit with crater glow at the very peak. Set about integrating those into the Story Mode episode backgrounds.


Focus: new death screen art, layered altitude-based story map backgrounds.

Read what happens next in the dev diary: the next entry.

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