Five Minutes
Session shape
A queue, a commute, a wait — the unit of play is minutes, and structure follows.
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Five Minutes
A commute is the unit.
A queue, a commute, a wait — the unit of play is minutes, and structure follows
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The unit of mobile play is minutes, and the minutes are not chosen by the player. A section on structure built for interruption — how a session opens, how it survives being abandoned mid-move, and what a return is allowed to cost.
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Five Minutes
Interruption
The session can end at any instant without warning, so state has to be safe continuously.
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Five Minutes
Resumption
Coming back has to cost nothing; a re-entry that requires remembering is a lost player.
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