Monday, June 15, 2026
Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play
Redesigning the power-up buttons
Uploaded the newest build to Play Console, then turned to a UI redesign: six vertical buttons on the side of the screen (instead of the current four-quadrant dial), each opening a sliding drawer with a buy price and a lava-halo glow once “armed.” Showed it to Lance at bedtime; approved, with notes: the buy delay felt too long (should be closer to half a second than a full second), and the layout broke when the phone rotated to horizontal, pushing buttons off-screen.
Me: “Look, what do you think about the new buttons? Are they better than the other ones?”
Lance: “Yeah.”
Floated a fallback idea for the orientation problem: a condensed three-by-two grid with a single indicator that pops up to show what you’re buying, rather than six separate buy icons.
Photos from today
Focus: power-up button redesign (quadrant dial to six-button drawer layout), orientation bug identified.
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.
