Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | An Automated Promotion Pipeline (July 31, 2026)
Friday, July 31, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Promotional artwork and an automated pipeline Built promotional art from real in-game assets: the…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Lance Draws the Lava Ship (July 30, 2026)
Thursday, July 30, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Lance draws the lava ship A genuinely lovely collaborative moment: found a spaceship Lance…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | A Dial for Drop Sets (July 30, 2026)
July 30, 2026. Afternoon. Get BeStreak on Google Play Found mid set There was one small bug I came across when I was doing drop…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | A Toy Lava Ship for Lance (July 29, 2026)
Wednesday, July 29, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play A toy lava ship for Lance A small, off-screen echo of the game showed…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Final Polish Before Launch (July 28, 2026)
Tuesday, July 28, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Final polish: leaderboards and victory music A last bug sweep before launch: victory screens…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | “I’ll Be Live on Wednesday” (July 27, 2026)
Monday, July 27, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play An apostrophe crashed the game Found and fixed a genuinely sneaky bug: the code-comment-stripping…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Update Notifications and Version 515 (July 26, 2026)
Sunday, July 26, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Update notifications Looked into automatic update delivery and chose the more portable option: a…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Weekly Stats on Opening the App (July 26, 2026)
July 26, 2026. Early morning. Get BeStreak on Google Play Your week I checked the updates in the app as well as the online version,…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Calendar Overlays, Meal Plans and a Direct Way to Add a Personal Best (July 25, 2026)
July 25, 2026. Morning, and from the car. Get BeStreak on Google Play What remains The nutrition calendar and the meal plans have been coded…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Version 504, Nothing Left to Build (July 24, 2026)
Friday, July 24, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Version 504, and pure testing Nothing left to build: downloaded v504 onto the phone…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | The Twelfth Tester, a Nutrition Tab and a Meal Plan (July 24, 2026)
July 24, 2026. 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play The twelfth tester saw nothing A guy downloaded the app, and that…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Hearts, Checkpoints, and a Bug-Replay Tool (July 22, 2026)
Wednesday, July 22, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Hearts and checkpoints Added collectible hearts after finding the last level brutally hard to…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Bug Hunting From the Mattress (July 22, 2026)
July 22, 2026. Early morning and afternoon. Get BeStreak on Google Play Testing where I don’t usually go I downloaded the latest update on my…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Round Dials on Every Input (July 21, 2026)
July 21, 2026. Evening until midnight. Get BeStreak on Google Play Too many buttons I did a pass of the BeStreak app. I think it…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Difficulty Tiers, Legs, and Lance’s Dinner Feedback (July 21, 2026)
Tuesday, July 21, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Three difficulties, and legs Added Easy, Normal, and Hard difficulty tiers to Story Mode:…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Tester Bugs Fixed, a Unit Converter and Five AI Personas (July 20, 2026)
July 20, 2026. Afternoon until 2:15 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play Two fixes from a tester A closed tester had mentioned two issues. On…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Stress-Testing the Build (July 20, 2026)
Monday, July 20, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Testing, not building A quieter day: no new features, just climbing nearly 1,000 platforms…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Two Thousand Meals and the First Outside Bug Report (July 19, 2026)
July 19, 2026. Afternoon until 4:00 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play Salad math I used the nutrition database to put my regular salad together,…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Eight More Days Until the Game Is Live (July 19, 2026)
Sunday, July 19, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Scorcha scales with the story Tuned Scorcha’s boss fights to appear every seventh level…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | The Hot Water Bubble and a Higher Exit Target (July 18, 2026)
Saturday, July 18, 2026 (late afternoon) Get Polymatrix on Google Play Building the hot water bubble I got home at 4:55 p.m., and the first…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | A Food Scale, Small Wording Fixes and Seven Cents (July 18, 2026)
July 18, 2026. Evening until 2:30 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play Weighing a salad The nutrition database is now up to 1,550 meals and…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | A Full Icon Set and Boss Mode Polish (July 18, 2026)
Saturday, July 18, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Boss mode, made presentable Boss mode worked mechanically from yesterday but looked too primitive:…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Pulling Baddies Forward and Merging Two Versions (July 17, 2026)
Friday, July 17, 2026 Get Polymatrix on Google Play Gaming the usage clock I played Polymatrix in the shower before heading home. I’d worked out…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Boss Mode and Scorcha’s Backstory (July 17, 2026)
Friday, July 17, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play The guest-account payment hunt Traced a guest-account Paddle payment that appeared to succeed in…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Server-Side Payments Confirmed Working (July 16, 2026)
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…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | A Console-Log Build, Long-Press Tilt and the Jellyfish (July 15, 2026)
Wednesday, July 15, 2026 (all day into the late night) Get Polymatrix on Google Play Testing on the go After my shower I loaded the…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Moving the Coin Economy Server-Side (July 15, 2026)
Wednesday, July 15, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Moving the economy server-side A major hardening pass against the cheating vulnerability found on…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Building a Game Without Knowing Physics (July 14, 2026)
Tuesday, July 14, 2026 Get Polymatrix on Google Play Explaining Polymatrix at home I showed the Polymatrix game to a family member at home and…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Chasing the Crash and a New Win Screen (July 14, 2026)
Tuesday, July 14, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Chasing the crash, and a proper win screen Traced the crash bug further; it…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Spin the Bottle, Hot Beads and a Tuning Guide (July 13, 2026)
Monday, July 13, 2026 (into the early morning) Get Polymatrix on Google Play Talking the game into my phone Yesterday was a super manic day:…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Custom Meals and a Promise to Stop Adding Features (July 13, 2026)
July 13, 2026. Early morning and evening. Get BeStreak on Google Play Seventy five, then two hundred and thirty seven By early morning the nutrition…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Ten Testers and a Confirmed Crash Bug (July 13, 2026)
Monday, July 13, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Ten testers, and a confirmed crash Up to ten testers now, two short of…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Polymatrix on My Phone (July 12, 2026)
Sunday, July 12, 2026 (afternoon into the night) Get Polymatrix on Google Play Waking up to the game Today I woke up at about 4:50…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Starting the Nutrition Database (July 12, 2026)
July 12, 2026. Late night until 4:30 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play Cataloging meals I opened up the BeStreak project and asked Claude AI…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Seven Testers and a Confirmed Coin Exploit (July 12, 2026)
Sunday, July 12, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Seven testers, and a real vulnerability Up to seven closed testers, five short of…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Music That Follows Your Fingers, and the First APK (July 11, 2026)
Saturday, July 11, 2026 (early morning) Get Polymatrix on Google Play Thirty minutes of usage left At 6:30 a.m. I had thirty minutes of usage…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | A Test Purchase, Smarter BMR, and Why This App Is Easy to Code (July 11, 2026)
July 11, 2026. 4:00 p.m. until 6:30 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play Checking what is live I wanted to check whether the ads and…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Anti-Cheat Testing Finds a Sandbox Coin Leak (July 11, 2026)
Saturday, July 11, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Level editor cleanup: v358 to v367 A long stretch of level-editor debugging: fixed a…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | First Outside Testers Recruited (July 10, 2026)
Friday, July 10, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play A live in-page configurator Built a new platform configurator that pops out directly on…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Polymatrix Gets Its Name and 100 Glass Chambers (July 10, 2026)
Friday, July 10, 2026 (into the late night) Get Polymatrix on Google Play Burning usage on a Friday It was Friday, and I had two…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Six More Features, a Debug Panel and Blood Pressure (July 10, 2026)
July 10, 2026. 11:00 p.m. until 8:25 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play What is left to build I loaded my diary and the latest…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Two Builds From Now On, and a Website Plan (July 9, 2026)
July 9, 2026. After 2:00 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play One change, two files I created a new rule for my instructions. From now…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | A Project Tracker and a Real-World Playtest (July 9, 2026)
Thursday, July 9, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play A project tracker, built from scratch Built a genuinely useful side tool tonight: a…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | Version 5 and the Two-Finger Swirl (July 8, 2026)
Wednesday, July 8, 2026 Get Polymatrix on Google Play A game without a name Lance showed me the new level he was building, and after…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Debugging by Video and the First Trailer (July 8, 2026)
Wednesday, July 8, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Mapping the coin economy Had Claude generate a full flow chart and a 12-scenario…
Polymatrix: Developer Diary | A Fable 5 Experiment Becomes a New Game (July 7, 2026)
Tuesday, July 7, 2026 (late night into the early morning) Get Polymatrix on Google Play An idea in the shower When I finished at the…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | 39 Help Pages and Claude Playtests the Game (July 7, 2026)
Tuesday, July 7, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play 39 pages of help articles, built overnight Checked in on the Cowork task from…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Looking for Twelve Testers (July 7, 2026)
July 7, 2026. Afternoon and late night. Get BeStreak on Google Play A hiatus The BeStreak app is in hiatus at the moment because it…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | AdSense Rejection and an SEO Tutorial Site (July 6, 2026)
Monday, July 6, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play AdSense rejection, and why Google AdSense rejected the Floor Is Lava website tonight; policy…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Submitted for Closed Testing, Plus Drop Sets (July 6, 2026)
July 6, 2026. Afternoon until 12:30 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play Showing it at home In the afternoon I showed the app to someone…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | RevenueCat, a Test Purchase and a Usage Dashboard (July 5, 2026)
July 5, 2026. Afternoon until 2:10 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play A mess of screens I picked up where I left off, creating products…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | A Real Recorded Playtest Session (July 5, 2026)
Sunday, July 5, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Focusing on one game at a time Consciously decided to stop context-switching between Floor…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Closed Testing Live, Recruiting Testers (July 4, 2026)
Saturday, July 4, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Closed testing, screenshotted Set up closed testing properly; added myself as a tester via…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Analytics, Subscriptions and a Photo Cap Idea From the Treadmill (July 4, 2026)
July 4, 2026. Afternoon until 5:00 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play Watching the caps I played around with the shop and all the different…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | Guest Login and Submitted to Closed Testing (July 3, 2026)
Friday, July 3, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play Let people play without an account A genuinely important UX fix started today: Floor…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Into Google Play Console, and Forty Four Screenshots (July 3, 2026)
July 3, 2026. 4:30 a.m. until 4:30 a.m. the next day. Get BeStreak on Google Play Debugging sign-in with alerts I woke at 4:30 a.m….
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Custom Muscles, a Signed Bundle and Sign In With Google (July 2, 2026)
July 2, 2026. Morning until 10:10 p.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play Version 237 I worked on two features this morning. First, when I throw…
Floor Is Lava: Developer Diary | 99% Complete, Waiting on Ad Approval (July 1, 2026)
Wednesday, July 1, 2026 Get Floor Is Lava on Google Play 99% complete, waiting on ads A short status entry while most of the day’s…
BeStreak: Developer Diary | Ads Go In: AdMob, a Second Domain and Background Themes (July 1, 2026)
July 1, 2026. 11:40 a.m. until after 1:00 a.m.. Get BeStreak on Google Play The domain name mix-up Around 11:40 a.m. I purchased the dot…