Corporate Climber
Navigate the corporate maze. Collect promotions and bonuses to grow your career. Avoid personal favors, overtime demands, and angry bosses — they block your path permanently. How high can you climb?
Corporate Ladder Navigation
Collect 🏆 ☕ · Avoid 📋 😤
Arrow keys or swipe · speed increases · don't trap yourself
01 /How to Play
- Use arrow keys (desktop) or swipe (mobile) to navigate your career path.
- Collect 🏆 promotions and ⭐ bonuses to grow your career length.
- Avoid 📋 personal favors, 💼 overtime demands, and 😤 angry bosses.
- Hitting any obstacle turns it into a permanent wall — plan your route.
- Your score is your maximum career length. How far up can you climb?
02 /The Science
Navigation tasks requiring simultaneous path planning and obstacle avoidance engage the hippocampal-entorhinal circuit for spatial mapping, the prefrontal cortex for prospective planning, and the basal ganglia for action sequence selection. The snake paradigm specifically tests an aspect of working memory called prospective interference — the ability to inhibit future collision paths while maintaining current trajectory. Performance on spatial navigation tasks of this type correlates with fluid intelligence and executive function battery scores.
03 /Pro Tips
- Always plan 3–4 moves ahead — reacting only to the immediate cell leads to dead ends.
- Hug the walls early to maximize open space in the center.
- Never turn back on yourself — reversals guarantee immediate collision.
- Prioritize path preservation over item collection at higher lengths.
- On mobile, swipe decisively — a partial swipe registers as no input.