Five minutes of reading, then you're ready

1. 🧭1.Follow the arrowThe yellow arrow points to the next person to meet: Guide Dan first, then your role's mentor.
2. ❗2.Talk to the ! marksStand next to a colleague with a ! above their head and press A (Space on a keyboard).
3. 🧠3.Read and decidePick what you would do first. Missing is fine: you can retry on the Review Board.
4. 🏆4.Collect and growEXP raises your level, badges open new areas, and combos and achievements are a bonus.

Press New Game on the play page and you will go through these steps. It takes about a minute.

1. 1Press Start on the intro screen.
2. 2Enter a name (1 to 12 characters). It only appears on your in-game badge.
3. 3Choose a role. You cannot switch roles during a run.
4. 4Pick an avatar and press Confirm & Start.
5. 5Page through the prologue with Next. You have arrived on campus.

Which role should I pick?

• Planner★★★★★

  Requirements, information architecture, UX writing

  Mina · Planning House

• PMO★★★★★

  Schedules, risk, reporting, change control

  Leo · PMO Tower

• Publisher★★★★★

  HTML/CSS, responsive layout, accessibility

  Jisoo · Publishing Studio

• Designer★★★★★

  UI structure, visual QA, design systems

  Luna · Design Studio

• Developer★★★★★

  Reading Python, debugging, API logic

  Alex · Dev Lab

💡 Your real job is the best pick. If you are just trying it out, Planner (★★) is the gentlest. Developer (★★★★) has the most code-reading questions.

Progress saves automatically in this browser. Come back to the play page and you pick up right where you left off.

The top is your status bar (HUD), the middle is the campus map, and the bottom holds the touch controls on phones.

Learn these few marks and you will always know where to go.

• !! (yellow, bouncing)This colleague has a quest you can take now.
• ✓✓ (green)You have cleared every quest they can give right now.
• ▼▼ (yellow, above a head)Your next stop. Go here first.
• Edge arrowYour next stop is off screen. Walk the way it points.
• 🔒 (next to a colleague)Your level is too low, or they are another role's mentor who opens at Lv.3.
• 🔒 (darkened tiles)A bridge or area that is still locked. Walk up to it to see what opens it.

One quest, start to finish

1. 1Stand next to a colleague with a !.
2. 2Press A (Space on a keyboard) to talk.
3. 3Page through their lines and the quest opens. If you see a list, press Start.
4. 4Read the whole situation and question. Opening the hint costs nothing.
5. 5Tap an answer, then Lock in this answer. On a keyboard, use 1 to 4 or Enter.
6. 6Check the grade, stars, explanation, key learning point and rewards, then head back to campus.

The four grades

• Excellent★★★

  The best call. The biggest reward, and your combo continues.

• Good★★★

  A sound call. Rewards scale with the score and your combo continues.

• Risky★★★

  A risky call. You still get at least 45% of the EXP, but reputation and mentor trust dip a little, the quest goes to the Review Board, and your combo ends.

• Poor★★★

  A weak call. You still get at least 25% of the EXP. Otherwise the same as Risky.

• •Quests from your own role's mentor pay 10% more EXP.
• •Other roles' mentors pay 70% EXP, but good answers there raise Communication and move you toward the T-shaped Growth Badge.
• •A missed quest stays open. You can go back to the same mentor and try again.

Reaching Lv.7 or earning the Director Badge plays the ending and your final result report. The story runs over seven chapters from Prologue to Epilogue, and the objective bar at the top changes with each one.

Neither is required, but both make the run a lot more fun.

The 12 achievements

See them, with progress, in your Profile (👤).

• 👣First StepAnswer your first quest
• 🎯Sharp EyeEarn your first Excellent
• 🔥In the FlowReach a 3-answer combo
• ⚡Unstoppable RookieReach a 5-answer combo
• ↻Back on Your FeetRecover a missed quest
• 📚Review MasterRecover 5 missed quests
• 👋Friendly NewcomerTalk to 8 different colleagues
• 🏢ExplorerEnter 4 buildings
• 🌉Across the RiverCross the river bridge
• 🗨️The Rival's SideTalk to your rival in 3 different chapters
• ⟲Crossing BoundariesClear 3 other-role quests well
• 💎PerfectionistEarn 10 Excellent grades

1. 1Quests you answer Risky or Poor are added to the Review Board automatically.
2. 2Open it with the 📖 button at the top, or by talking to Mira in the plaza.
3. 3Press Retry and aim for Good or better this time.
4. 4Get it right and the quest is marked Recovered, and some of the mentor's trust comes back.

↻ Review retries pay 60% of the normal EXP. In return they never touch your combo, and they count toward the Back on Your Feet and Review Master achievements.

• 1.For the first five minutes, just follow the arrowAfter Guide Dan's tutorial it leads you to your role's mentor.
• 2.Hints are freeOpening a hint costs no points and does not affect your combo.
• 3.Look for what to do firstChoices that check, share and align usually grade well. Deciding alone or refusing outright is usually Risky.
• 4.The long, polite answer is not automatically rightLook at the order of actions and the reason, not the tone.
• 5.Review right after a missIt is easiest to recover while the explanation is fresh, and your combo is safe.
• 6.Visit other roles from Lv.3Clear three other-role quests well to earn the T-shaped Growth Badge.
• 7.Talk to Kevin in every chapterThe rival's lines change each chapter, and there is an achievement for following him.
• 8.You do not have to finish in one sittingProgress saves automatically, so play a few quests at a time.