Portal Cartridge

Rick Sanchez is trapped inside a NASA Milky Way image, and the player tunes a four-color cartridge signal to decide whether his portal route stabilizes or fractures.

Creation: creation_8a6da2535b24ab7a12310c9560b5219e
Player action: Press LOAD SIGNAL, then move the tuning slider and choose a route mode to resolve Rick's escape path through the NASA image.
Style cartridge: 👾 Retro 90s Pixel · retro-90s-pixel
Novelty delta: The APIs become a playable terrain-and-rules collision where one source rewrites how the other is traversed.

Causal chain

1. rickandmortyCharacter identity, status, origin, and current location define the escape risk profile.
2. nasa-imagesThe NASA image and metadata become the terrain and alter the portal route result.

API roles

API	Operations	Essential role
rickandmorty	character	Supplies the stranded character and the biological and location traits that set the mission's risk rules.
nasa-images	search	Supplies the celestial terrain, title, date, center, and image that determine route stability and visual state.

Dependency

rickandmorty → rules → nasa-images: Rick's status, species, and origin change the scoring rule applied to the NASA terrain, so the same image yields different escape outcomes.

Interaction

Controls: LOAD SIGNAL button, portal tuning range slider, route mode select, RESOLVE ROUTE button

Outcome: The cartridge redraws the map, updates stability, risk, route text, mission score, and sprite position.

Visual direction

Style: 90s handheld cartridge mission with stepped tile-map panels

Palette: CRT black, phosphor green, cartridge magenta, pale signal gray

Typography: pixel monospace with chunky score digits and tile labels

Motion: sprite steps, scanline drift, palette flash, and cartridge boot pulses

Cartridge receipt

Palette: strict four-color palette, CRT black, phosphor green, cartridge magenta

Typography: pixel monospace, tile-map labels, chunky score digits

Motion: sprite walk, scanline scroll, palette flash, stepped parallax

Era: 90s handheld and 16-bit cartridge game

Caution: Keep text legible at 390px; scanlines and dithering must never bury controls.