Monday, June 29, 2026: approx. afternoon to past midnight
Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play
Showing a friend: “It’s pretty good”
Demoed the game to a friend, with Lance introducing it as his own creation:
“It’s done with AI. Lance told me all the ideas for how to play the game, and I wrote them in, and we developed it together.”
Friend, on seeing the animated storyboard background: “Did AI make that too?”
Me: “Yeah.”
The friend had tried coding once in year seven and gave up: a small reminder of how much friction AI-assisted development has removed from a process that used to require a computer science degree’s worth of patience.
Real payments, tested end to end
Ran a genuine tester’s-eye pass tonight: added a licensed tester account, installed the latest internal-testing APK, and confirmed a real purchase flow; logged into the test Gmail account, bought the premium bundle, and it worked cleanly, free of charge as intended for a licensed tester.
“Google Pay works on the mobile phone. Payments work on the mobile phone. Payments work on the desktop with Paddle. The only thing I have to integrate now is AdMob… I think the game’s ready.”
Also put a promotion up on Facebook to start recruiting the twelve closed testers needed to start the 14-day countdown to public release.
Focus: real purchase flow tested and confirmed working on mobile and desktop; tester recruitment begins.
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.
