Thursday, July 16, 2026
Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play
A frustrating, essential day
A genuinely rough stretch; the whole day spent wrestling with server-side payment logic, admitting frustration boiled over onto Lance at one point, then a Claude usage limit hit mid-fight with the problem. But by the early hours, real progress: a test purchase through the new server-side APK payment processor worked correctly end to end, all webhooks and APIs connected.
The Paddle race condition
Found and fixed a subtler bug: the client-side purchase logic was racing the new server-side logic and overwriting it after the fact. Removing the redundant client-side write fixed it; version 383 confirmed the Paddle purchase landed correctly, though the on-screen confirmation pop-up didn’t fire; version 384 fixed that too.
A lost guest account
A genuinely costly bug: purchases made as a guest were lost entirely when the guest account got wiped and replaced with a new one. Signed-in purchases were unaffected. Flagged for a proper fix; likely limiting each device to one persistent guest account.
🎮 Game Rules Log: July 16, 2026
- Server-side payment processing confirmed working for both Google Play and Paddle (desktop)
- Purchase confirmation pop-up now fires correctly after a Paddle transaction
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.
