Minigames

**Minigames** is one of the major mechanics in POPGOES and planned mechanics for POPGOES Reprinted.

## POPGOES

During the minigames, the Popgoes Animatronics are moving through the brain-shaped location, representing the Fritz Glade's mind. During each night, a different route is unlocked, leading specific animatronic to their Toy counterparts, specifically:

* First Night: Stone the Crow - Balloon Boy
* Second Night: Saffron the Squirrel - Toy Freddy
* Third Night: Sara the Squirrel - Toy Chica
* Fourth Night: Blake the Badger - Mangle
* Fifth Night: Popgoes the Weasel - Toy Bonnie

After reaching the end of each route, a Toy animatronic is shown chained to the walls. When the character gets closer, the minigame ends.

### Grave Ending

During each night, a Simon encounter can be found. After finding him, the minigame changes. You go through the brain as normal, but on the way to the respective Toy Animatronic, you can see Simon's head connected to the wall, shining a coloured spotlight in front of him. After stepping into the spotlight, the animatronic is replaced with their Lux version. After becoming a Lux Animatronic, you are able to approach the respective Toy Animatronic and break their chains. Once the chains are broken, they fall into pieces.

After destroying all five Toy Animatronics, a final encounter of Simon is unlocked in the Sixth Night. After that, a special minigame with Blackrabbit is unlocked. We are once again wandering through the brain-shaped location. Along with the 3D Printer, Blackrabbit appears near the end of the Popgoes route - where Toy Bonnie was destroyed. We have to go back to the place where all previous minigames started. In the middle of it, the last Simon's head appears, this time showing the face of Simon Fitzgerald. After stepping into the spotlight, Blackrabbit is changed into her Lux version - Whiterabbit. Acquiring the new power, the animatronic finds Fritz Glade at her route, killing him.

During that version of the minigames, a voice of Simon spelling letters can be heard. Each night has a different part of the message.

## Scrapped Ideas

Before the brain **minigames** were created, there were multiple different ideas for POPGOES minigames. One of them was "Build" minigames, where you played as Fritz Glade building the animatronics present in the pizzeria. You'd use four different 3D printers to create animatronic legs, body, hands and head, creating an animatronic in the middle. The colour of the room represented animatronic's power colour and had a position in an "army" supposed to defeat the Toys, Popgoes being "Leader", Blake - "Recruit", Sara - "Offence", Saffron - "Defense", Stone - "Spy".

The idea was scrapped, because it was seen as too repetitive, and didn't tell much of a story.

The other concept consisted of actual "fights" between the Toy animatronics and the Popgoes animatronics. Jeremy was going to lead the Popgoes characters, and the Puppet was going to lead the Toy Animatronics each night. If you won each battle, you'd unlock the Good Ending. If you died once, you'd get the Bad Ending. Both Fritz and the Puppet had a full walking animation with their arm extended. The models of the Toy Animatronics were also created and animated.

The final minigame would show Blackrabbit's animation that consisted of Bonnie Glade emerging from this body.

## POPGOES Reprinted

In POPGOES Reprinted, the minigames would be in a "3D Dungeon" style instead of the Atari Style of POPGOES.

## Trivia

* Popgoes route leads to the frontal lobe part of the brain, as a reference to Toy Bonnie being the culprit in The Bite of '87.
* The normal minigames show Fritz explaining to Strings about animatronics and how they failed to work as effective dreamcatchers.
* The grave minigames show Simon showing his power to Strings by suggesting that he can infuse light and power into the animatronics to make them work as dreamcatchers when Fritz couldn't. He does this as an attempt to manipulate Strings so he can gain the confidence to manipulate Fritz.

## Gallery

### POPGOES

Popgoes Route in the minigame mapStone RouteSaffron RouteSara RouteBlake RoutePopgoes SpriteBlake SpriteSara SpriteSaffron SpriteStone SpriteBlackrabbit SpriteGem Stone SpriteLux Popgoes SpriteLux Blake SpriteLux Sara SpriteLux Saffron SpriteLux Stone SpriteWhiterabbit Sprite
### POPGOES Reprinted

Toy Freddy Sprite for 3D Brain minigameToy Bonnie SpriteMangle SpriteBalloon Boy SpriteJJ SpriteGrave Stone Sprite
## Navigation

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fAO9KN9CZY
2. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/2124/comments/31hkyd/popgoes\_minigame\_sprites\_are\_done\_let\_me\_know/