It does work. I had rushed the initial version of Mushroom Mayhem into the store, with quite a few bugs still in it and really only the bare minimum features needed to make it playable. I strongly suspected that doing this would prevent the project from stalling again and me not looking at it for years. And it worked. Even though there are only around 20 people that installed the game, I’m motivated, and many evenings I find myself improving and fine-tuning the app.

Another pretty big update. This time I used an ‘agent’ to add large chunks of functionality all at once. An agent recieves a job, breaks it up in logical parts and assigns all the parts to a collection of AI tools that work together to carry out each task. After a while when all the tasks are complete the agent combines them all to a final result and marks the entire task as completed. After completion I could review everything and approve it if it was all correct. Super easy, as long as you describe the initial task clearly.

AI updates:

• Integrate Apple game center to keep a leaderboard for the daily challenges.
• Integrate Apple game center and added a list of achievements you can win while playing the game.

I also did some things myself and updated all the apps graphics, so everything looks a little bit cleaner, the app has a brand new icon and there are a number of bigger changes:

• Improved explanation of the game.
• This time you’ll see your score after finishing a game.
• You can also specify in the settings how difficult a ‘quick game’ should be. By default, a quick game is manageable with a bit of logical thinking, but now you can choose the difficulty yourself, from ‘very easy’ to ‘very hard’.

I’ve shifted the work I do on MM to the evenings. Before going to sleep. Rather than enjoying part of a movie or an episode of a series I now spend the last hour of my day talking and experimenting with my programming assistant. Over the past few days, I’ve made some improvements, so you can now get the new version.

Thanks for your feedback! The new version has a daily challenge and new edible mushrooms which you can use to get a little help when you’re stuck.

• New daily challenge!
• Five new levels in the adventure mode. These are very hard levels, so be patient!
• A whole new gameplay dimension: you can now find edible mushrooms (and click to collect them), which can be used to investigate any block you suspect might contain a toxic mushroom.
  

  Once collected, the mushroom is stored for future use. Consuming an edible mushroom increases your awareness of nature and gives you a brief burst of intuition. It allows you to focus your thoughts and pick up on insights you might otherwise have missed. Simply click the edible mushroom icon in the top right, then select the area you wish to explore to get a sneak peek, whether it’s something worth uncovering or something best avoided.

• New immersive music track.