Tuesday, September 1, 2026
A tutorial with pointing fingers
I wrote out a big prompt to add a tutorial at the start: a level zero, with fingers as pointers. You’d go through using one finger to push an ice floe, using two fingers to push an ice floe, then all the power-ups, flipping the phone and shaking the phone, and you can skip the tutorial.
Sixty percent in one go
I was keeping that prompt in my back pocket in case there was plenty of usage, and sure enough, when Claude finished, it had taken about 60% of my usage.
“Oh, man, that’s going to kill my night.”
It didn’t create a working new version. It lined everything up and got everything ready, so I clicked continue to integrate it all. It did create a zip file with all the PNG images, so the graphics were ready. I told it to use the PNG files as the main images, with base64 as the fallback. It got about 90% of the way through before my usage was capped.
Day five of closed testing
Polymatrix is on the fifth day of closed testing, so I’m almost halfway there.
Game Rules Log: September 1, 2026
- In progress: level zero tutorial with finger pointers, covering one and two finger pushes, power-ups, flipping and shaking, with a skip option
- Tutorial graphics delivered as PNG files with base64 fallback
Read what happens next in the dev diary: the next entry.
Melt, shake and blast the ice out of the bottle before time runs out: one gap in the glass, ninety seconds. Download the game on Google Play.
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.
