Figure 1: A fetch quest + jigsaw puzzle type minigame; shmüz up to people in order to collect herald invitations!

The narrative crafting minigame has been reworked from the rhythm + reflex hodge-podge into a simple side-scrolling arcade activity:

I think this simpler design works better thematically than previous version was too convoluted; the player needs to 'pilot' their reply within bounds of their conversation partner's desired sentiment level.

This is hopefully the final incarnation of the scheduling minigame; it's gone from drafting, to real-time, to single-tile placement and now to one with a jigsaw-type feel. The player needs to talk to people to gather invitations, which can be dragged into their scheduler to meet their heralding goals.

I can maintain some element of puzzle-ness with this and it also fits in well thematically (e.g. I can show how the protagonist gets upset when too many of these schedules get placed into her calendar, blocking out her preferred activities).

The activity can also tie in with the narrative crafting one from above in which the protagonist perhaps has to do to get an invitation with a bigger pay-off.

Work was also done for the UI integration, i.e. there are now dropdown notifications, and a way to navigate to the minigame from the pendant UI.

Although I've only implemented PoCs of these minigames and haven't actually done any design on these games yet, I have been experimenting with ways in which to author and fine-tune them:

• Godot allows you to interactively tweak properties of nodes while the game is running (while in the Remote tab).

• Level configurations can be authored in text.

• The tilemap editor can be used to create levels, both for terrain but also for puzzle pieces that would be placed on grids.