Wednesday, July 8, 2026
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Mapping the coin economy
Had Claude generate a full flow chart and a 12-scenario table covering every way a phone’s guest account, a new guest account, and a logged-in cloud account could interact: including a duplication edge case (logging out of a guest account, then creating a new one, could carry coins across). Fix: new guests always start at zero.
The swing-platform bug, solved by video
Genuinely clever debugging today: isolated a stubborn bug: jumping from a swing platform onto a purple electricity platform teleports you back to the swing: by uploading a recorded promo clip of it happening straight to Claude, which can now watch video. The root cause: every other platform type had a specific line resetting the “on swing” flag on landing; purple was the one platform missing it. One-line fix.
A second, related bug (swing to tipping platform) surfaced from the same root cause and was fixed the same night, alongside a new in-game bug-logging tool: a green worm icon you tap to log exactly what just happened.
A rookie mistake, caught
Discovered the APK being tested was built from version 280: more than 40 versions behind the current v312. A genuinely humbling find, and a reminder to double-check which build is actually shipping before troubleshooting phantom bugs.
The first trailer
Assembled a 36-second trailer from recorded clips (including a cheat-assisted run through the spaceship level) and launched a new YouTube channel, Gamer’s Top Shelf, plus a Facebook business page for the game.
Watch the trailer: Floor Is Lava is coming to Android! (YouTube)
Photos from today
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.
