Rental Casting Deck

A battered video-store casting machine pairs one fictional renter with one dog co-star and lets the player recut their impossible straight-to-video career.

Creation: creation_d00eea2be53201ac5c2e590bf2f17b6e
Player action: Choose a genre, set the trust dial, then press REWIND & RECUT to roll a new interpretation of the same loaded cast pair.
Style cartridge: 📼 VHS Jacket · vhs-jacket
Novelty delta: The fixed API pair becomes editable movie grammar: the player recuts roles and endings instead of merely revealing identities or images.

Causal chain

1. randomuserThe fictional person's name, nationality, and portrait define the lead actor and catalog identity.
2. dog-ceoThe dog image becomes the co-star whose visual energy changes chemistry, title, and ending rules.

API roles

API	Operations	Essential role
randomuser	person	Supplies the named human lead, portrait, and nationality used to construct every tape sleeve and role archetype.
dog-ceo	random	Supplies the canine co-star image whose perceived expression drives the chemistry score and recut outcome.

Dependency

dog-ceo → rules → randomuser: The dog image's client-side interpreted energy modifies how the human lead is cast, changing the title, tagline, chemistry meter, and ending.

Interaction

Controls: genre selector, trust range dial, REWIND & RECUT button

Outcome: Each recut visibly changes the VHS title, role labels, chemistry, sticker verdict, plot beats, and ending while keeping the loaded source pair honest.

Visual direction

Style: worn VHS rental jacket and playback deck

Palette: sun-faded cyan, rental red, tracking white, magnetic-tape black

Typography: oversized video-box display with catalog monospace labels

Motion: tracking jitter, sleeve slide, rewind counter, pause stripe

Cartridge receipt

Palette: sun-faded cyan, rental red, tracking white, magnetic-tape black

Typography: oversized video-box display, catalog monospace, sticker labels

Motion: tracking jitter, pause stripe, sleeve slide, rewind counter

Era: 1980s–90s rental cassette package and worn playback deck

Caution: Noise must be decorative only; never obscure content, controls, attribution, or errors.