Outcome square

The outcome of any interaction is where each side ends up: winning or losing.

You and the other side

In every scene, you deal with the other side. In “Negotiating your career”, that’s “The company”.

Each of you has things that matter. For you, that might be your salary and your place in the company; for the company, the department’s budget and your manager’s goodwill. Moves change some of these, and at the end you see whether each of you is winning. Breaking even counts as winning too.

The square

Your result runs up and down: winning at the top, losing at the bottom. The other side’s result runs left to right: winning on the right, losing on the left. Together they split the square into four parts:

• the top right corner — you both win;
• the top left — only you win;
• the bottom right — only the other side wins;
• the bottom left — you both lose.

It’s best when you both win. If only one side wins, better that it’s you. The “Rewards & ratings” page shows how many crystals each part gives.

Moves

Each move is a numbered circle, placed in the part of the square that move led to. The last circle is the scene’s outcome. The line between the circles shows how the scene went: sometimes the first move leads to one part and the scene ends in another. If a scene has a single choice instead of a chain of questions, there’s just one circle.

Below is what changed: a row for each change, with an arrow up or down. A green arrow is a change for the better for whoever it affects, a red one is a change for the worse. Two arrows instead of one mean a big change.

How to answer

Most of the time you pick a single answer, and the next question depends on it.

Sometimes the answers need to be put in order: tap them one at a time, and each one fills the next empty slot.

And sometimes you can pick several answers. The number isn’t given: pick as many as you see fit. If there is a limit, the situation itself says so. If two answers rule each other out, picking one closes off the other.