October 2025: GeistHeist progressed with a new gameplay feature set and targeted UI reliability fixes to enhance player experience and maintainability. The month emphasized delivering a robust vending interaction system and ensuring UI state consistency during dynamic gameplay events, aligning with business goals around polished gameplay and reduced bug surface.

Month: 2025-01 — BBurtz/488Prototype1 foundational player scaffolding delivered. Implemented core player movement and camera-relative controls, added Interact and Switch input actions, and prepared the scene for interactions by renaming the player object and establishing conventions. Commits: de15e47ed9df43bbf17f2672bc617c2194137bef; 4e08f6ffb4eb7fae1ffab0201cfde4f4b35267f6. No major bugs fixed this month; focus on foundational gameplay scaffolding to enable faster iteration in February. Overall impact: provides a solid base for gameplay features and interaction systems, improving onboarding for new features and maintainability.