Saturday, June 6, 2026; approx. 8:30 p.m. to past 2:00 a.m.
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The duplicate-animation mystery
A genuinely maddening bug tonight: the start animations for Episode One, Episode Two, and beyond were all showing the exact same image, no matter what was changed. Chasing it meant re-testing the raw Claude Design export (worked fine), then the copied version in the game’s own folder (broken), then uploading the entire zip to Claude AI to diagnose from scratch. The actual cause: the sprite sheets hadn’t been added to each episode’s folder, and the HTML file had 14 duplicated, near-identical animation functions differing only in which art asset they called.
The fix; collapsing those into one function that takes the art asset as a variable; saved roughly 5,000 lines of code. Then came the tedious but necessary part: manually plotting the coordinates of each of the six sprites on every sprite sheet, by hand, to match the right relic to the right episode.
Desktop payments actually fire
In parallel, desktop monetization through Paddle came together; webhooks, a new secrets folder, command-line deployment steps followed mostly on faith. Tested a purchase with a 100%-discounted coin pack; the transaction sat pending in Firestore without firing, no amount of refreshing showed the coins in-game, until finally pulling fresh data from the cloud confirmed it: 3,000 extra coins, correctly recorded.
🎮 Game Rules Log: June 6, 2026
- Episode start animations now correctly reference each episode’s own sprite/relic, not a shared duplicate
- Desktop coin purchases confirmed working end-to-end via Paddle + Firestore
Focus: duplicate-animation bug traced and fixed (-5,000 lines), Paddle desktop payments confirmed working.
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.
