RANDOMWARE KEEPER SPEC
Creation: creation_8a6da2535b24ab7a12310c9560b5219e
Name: Portal Cartridge
Premise: 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.
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)
Style palette: strict four-color palette, CRT black, phosphor green, cartridge magenta
Style typography: pixel monospace, tile-map labels, chunky score digits
Style motion: sprite walk, scanline scroll, palette flash, stepped parallax
Style era: 90s handheld and 16-bit cartridge game
Style caution: Keep text legible at 390px; scanlines and dithering must never bury controls.

Causal chain:
1. rickandmorty: Character identity, status, origin, and current location define the escape risk profile.
2. nasa-images: The NASA image and metadata become the terrain and alter the portal route result.

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

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

Novelty delta: The APIs become a playable terrain-and-rules collision where one source rewrites how the other is traversed.