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A Saskatoon-based mobile game development and publishing company is the first Canadian firm featured in Apple Inc.’s new series on its App Store celebrating the country’s 150th birthday and its best game makers.

Noodlecake Studios, which is headquartered in Riversdale, celebrated the occasion on Thursday by releasing a new “minimalistic puzzle game” called Invert to coincide with the launch of the series on Apple’s mobile platforms.

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“There are amazing studios across this entire country that are doing some amazing games,” said Ryan Holowaty, Noodlecake’s vice president of business, who has been with the small game company since shortly after it was formed in 2011.

“Being first in that list? I’m not even sure if we deserve it, to be honest. But it makes it even more humbling that (Apple) decided to bestow that upon us. It’s a culmination of the work we’ve been doing here.”

Noodlecake is best known for its original success, the iOS game Super Stickman Golf, and its sequels. But the company — which has about a dozen employees, many of whom are University of Saskatchewan graduates — is more than a game developer.