Friday, September 4, 2026 (the night before into the morning)
A mini game that wouldn’t finish
The night before, testing Polymatrix before sleep, I found a bug in one of the mini games. In the whack-a-mole mini game, the level couldn’t finish. It couldn’t draw the next bottle. It drew a container, but the timer didn’t restart and all the buttons stopped working.
I got Claude to work on it, but it spent half of my compute testing and couldn’t find the actual bug.
Generic tests found it
This morning I went back to the garage, turned Claude on and continued running tests. This time I told it to run some generic tests in the browser. It took some time, but it found the bug.
I checked on the game a second time, pressed a few more buttons for more coding, uploaded the new Polymatrix AAB file to Google Console, and then went to have a shower.
“That’s a lot of back and forth this morning.”
By the end of the day the Polymatrix app was fixed up.
Game Rules Log: September 4, 2026
- Fixed: whack-a-mole mini game freeze where the next bottle never drew and buttons stopped responding
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.
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