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Retro Sparkle: play this Candy Crush-esque mobile game

Kotaro Fujita, 38, runs a mobile/web/game consulting company called Tomato Boy. This is his first game.

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Match three shapes a row in three seconds and you get three more seconds to play again.

That’s the point of Retro Sparkle, the Candy Crush-esque game from South Philly-based developer Kotaro Fujita.

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The game has its roots in a Philly Dev Night 12-hour game jam hackathon with the theme “candy,” Fujita wrote on his blog. In terms of design, it’s “a bit of a love letter to Apple’s iOS7 design aesthetics,” he wrote.

Fujita, 38, runs a mobile/web/game consulting company called Tomato Boy. He previously worked at Center City digital filing startup Neat Company and New York City-based mobile medical research startup Docphin. This is his first game.

Retro Sparkle is ad-supported (“I decided on using iAds because it was such a simple game visually, I couldn’t with confidence expect people to pay for it,” Fujita wrote) and Fujita’s friend, Rob Miller, did the music.

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