On the Subject of The Midnight Motorist

The Bite of ’87 refers to how many big macs William Afton ate before going into cardiac arrest.

Key points:

• The module simulates races between 8 possible cars.
• If 2 cars repeatedly race against each other the winner is consistent.
• There are 2 modes the module has: practice and bracket tournament.
• The goal of the module is to determine the winner of the bracket tournament.

Global controls (independent of the mode):

• Left blue button: switch mode.
• Right blue button: mute/unmute.
• Right joystick: change volume.

Practice mode:

• Controls:
  • Left joystick: N/A.
  • Left yellow button: start a race/halt a race and generate a new one.
  • Right yellow button: N/A.
• The module starts in this mode by default.
• There are 2 independent pairs of randomly picked cars (no repeats) from the available pool (the pool has 8 cars by default).
• Use this mode to collect data on which cars win against which cars.

Bracket tournament mode:

• Controls:
  • Left joystick: switch the pointer between cars.
  • Left yellow button: select the winner car.
  • Right yellow button: add/remove the selected car from the practice pool (4 minimum).
• There are 8 consistently ordered cars competing in a bracket tournament.
• Using the practice mode, detetrmine the winner of the finals.
• You can add/remove cars from the practice pool to make rerolling for desired pairs in practice mode faster.