Cosmic Casting Tape

A worn rental tape casts a fresh fictional astronaut into a fixed Milky Way documentary, then lets the player recut how that person survives the same cosmic scene.

Creation: creation_f5e1657977f109126493bfd3fe9405db
Player action: Press CAST NEW LEAD for a fresh person, then choose a tape genre and tracking bias to recut the same NASA scene into a different survival ending.
Style cartridge: 📼 VHS Jacket · vhs-jacket
Novelty delta: The live person is not decorative casting; identity-derived modifiers causally rewrite the playable interpretation of one fixed NASA artifact.

Causal chain

1. randomuserDraw a fresh fictional lead whose name and nationality seed the tape persona and score modifiers.
2. nasa-imagesUse the fixed Milky Way title, image, and description as the immutable film world the lead must navigate.

API roles

API	Operations	Essential role
randomuser	person	Supplies the live-drawn protagonist, portrait, identity label, and nationality-derived gameplay modifier for every recut.
nasa-images	search	Supplies the fixed cosmic setting, cover art, catalog identity, and descriptive text that all genre recuts reinterpret honestly.

Dependency

randomuser → rules → nasa-images: The protagonist's name length and nationality visibly alter oxygen, signal, and ending rules applied to the unchanged NASA scene.

Interaction

Controls: CAST NEW LEAD, genre selector, tracking bias slider, REWIND / RECUT

Outcome: The portrait, cover copy, three survival meters, rental stickers, and ending text visibly cascade after each cast or recut.

Visual direction

Style: worn VHS rental jacket fused with a compact 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, and pause-stripe flashes

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.