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SlumberBloom garden game rewards you for putting your phone down

Original: What I Built SlumberBloom is a garden that only grows when you leave your phone alone. You tap... # devchallenge # hf26c

A developer has built SlumberBloom, a small garden game created for a development challenge in which the garden only grows while the user leaves their phone alone. The project is open source and built with .NET, and early reactions online focus on the twist of using a game — usually a screen-time magnet — as an incentive to spend less time on the device.

Why now: It inverts typical app engagement design by rewarding users for staying off their phones, a timely idea amid growing digital wellbeing concerns.

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