A playtester's real Challenge Mode score didn't match a freshly computed target. Chasing that down found a real solver bug, and underneath it, a second bug in a fixture file nobody had touched in months. Also in this build: a tutorial and UI polish pass, and leaderboard scores that finally come back online on their own.
Mines and heal pickups are live in every stage from Chapter 1 through Chapter 6. Getting there meant fixing a mine that only worked if you stopped on it, and a kill that wasn't paying out when it should have.
A "this score looks wrong, and it's not even saving" report turned into two separate leaderboard bugs. Testing the fix live found a third one hiding underneath both of them.
A recurring "my progress just vanished" report on itch.io turned into a save-recovery fix, an opt-in cloud save for the web build, a matching cloud save for Android via Google Play, and a leaderboard migration that had been overdue for a while.
Two different complaints, from two opposite kinds of player, both pointing at the same decision: things that should have been separate switches were bolted together.
The save was not corrupted. The game deleted that progress on purpose, in a branch that only runs when you go back and replay something you already finished.
The bug worth fixing first is the one that ends the session, not the one that looks bad.
Two leaderboards, two backends, and neither of them got to be simple.
The board never actually turns. The camera does.
"The confirmation dialog was always going to say yes. The point was never the answer, it was making sure the player saw the question."