Chopsticks is the latest app developed by Citrus Suite for Penguin Group USA.
Read more here…
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Los Angeles Times
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Citrus Suite blog post Chopsticks in the Wall Street Journal

About Chopsticks
Glory is a piano prodigy. After her mother died, she retreated into her music. Her father raised her with the goal of playing sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall and across the globe. Brilliant and lonely, Glory is drawn to Frank, who moves in next door.

Musical notes reveal treasured mementos and stolen secrets as Glory loses herself in Frank’s paintings and drawings. Links bring the music of their shared mix CDs to reality. Vibrant videos play the shows and clips they watch together and breathe still photos to life. Scrapbook images move as the text flows from Spanish to English. Their late-night IM conversations whisper, blinking down the screen. Frank becomes Glory’s connection to the world—and her escape from reality.

Before long, Glory is unable to play anything but the song “Chopsticks”; F and G notes moving closer together, and farther apart.

Glory disappears. But nothing is what it seems. And we must decide what is real, what is imagined, and what has been madness all along…

A breathtaking cohesion of images, songs, videos, letters, love and loss, the Chopsticks app draws on a full spectrum of media to create a fully immersive novel experience.
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“…seeing deceits and red herrings laid bare in photographs and documents, rather than reading about them, makes the book’s punches hit hard.” –PW

“Spellbinding and inventive, this title will attract teens and compel them to reread and revisit each clue to the hauntingly ambiguous ending.” –SLJ Starred Review

“Eerie and edgy—and effective as Poe.” –Kirkus

Pictures are not only worth a thousand words in “Chopsticks.” In hands as talented as Anthony’s and Corral’s, they’re just as emotionally resonant. –LA Times

“Like the young artistic love it describes, Chopsticks is beautiful and strange and haunting. The story’s crooked path is made luminous by its extraordinary images. Chopsticks is like that one ex lover you never shake off—the one that was a mystery—beautifully distilled.”
–Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief Wondorous Life of Oscar Wao

“Reading Chopsticks is like watching people kiss in the street: it’s private, it’s beautiful, it’s lonely, it’s wild, it’s secret, it’s everywhere and you can’t look away.”
–Daniel Handler, author of Why We Broke Up
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-Touch the music notes to discover interactive features
-Links to songs from their mix CDs/playlists
-Spanish/English text alternates in the notes and letters
-Images move to reveal hidden scrapbook mementos
-Embedded videos play the shows and clips they share
-Text appears to convey quiet conversation
-IM conversations slide down the screen
-Important news clippings and articles underline with a touch
-Moving images breath life into the snapshots

Fresh Ideas, Sharp Solutions.
Citrus Suite develops apps, software, games and produces 3D digital artwork. Developer on iPhone, iPad, Android, HTML5, PC, YouView, IPTV platforms (YouView, Google TV, Apple TV, etc.).

Development of apps from Liverpool, UK.

Citrus Suite has been developing a cool new app with Penguin Books US for release in February 2012.
Based on a dark picture book for mature teens imagined by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral, the app for iPad & iPhone is called Chopsticks and has already started getting some amazing pre-release press coverage.

A feature in the Wall Street Journal tiled Blowing Up the Book details the new crop of digital books that come loaded with interaction, video, audio and animation. Central to the article is Chopsticks…
Wall Street Journal

Chopsticks Tumblr
Penguin Teen
Amazon

“Reading Chopsticks is like watching people kiss in the street: it’s private, it’s beautiful, it’s lonely, it’s wild, it’s secret, it’s everywhere and you can’t look away.”
Daniel Handler, author of Why We Broke Up

“Like the young artistic love it describes, Chopsticks is beautiful and strange and haunting. The story’s crooked path is made luminous by its extraordinary images.”
Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Further updates soon.



Fresh Ideas, Sharp Solutions.
Citrus Suite develops apps, software, games and produces 3D digital artwork. Developer on iPhone, iPad, Android, HTML5, PC, YouView, IPTV platforms (YouView, Google TV, Apple TV, etc.).

Development of apps from Liverpool, UK.

“Who’s doing eBooks right? What are some great examples you’ve seen?”
Peter Meyers, author of “Breaking the Page: Transforming Books and the Reading Experience“, highlights Wreck This App as “an eBook app done right”.

Peter will be speaking at SXSW on the topic “Making eBooks Smarter: Responsive Page Design” so this is high praise indeed.
Read the full article here…
Scatter/Gather

Update, March 2012: At SXSW Peter Meyers recommended Wreck This App for iOS as example of an eBook that invites the reader to participate in its creation.

Peter Meyers’s website A New Kind Of Book is right on the pulse of developments in eBooks and details innovations in the genre.

Since the last update Citrus Suite has developed an Android and Nook Color versions of Wreck This App.

Update, March 2012: Wreck This App voted best digital product of 2011 at the Penguin Group (USA)’s Third Annual David Awards.
See a summary of quotes and reviews here

The app has even had a mention in O, the Oprah Winfrey magazine and been nominated best non-fiction app at Digital Book World Conference in New York January 2012.

Fresh Ideas, Sharp Solutions.
Citrus Suite develops apps, software, games and produces 3D digital artwork. Developer on iPhone, iPad, Android, HTML5, PC, YouView, IPTV platforms (YouView, Google TV, Apple TV, etc.).

Development of apps from Liverpool, UK.

The Citrus Suite developed Wreck This App is doing well at the moment reaching number 1 in the UK iTunes entertainment chart and number 2 in the US. The user review scores on the App Store rate the application at 4 out of 5, with the latest update getting 5 out of 5 (as of 3rd November 2011). I’ve gathered a number of links to press coverage & quotes and will update this page from time to time.

PRESS

The Guardian
Wired’s Geek Dad
Featured on Apple’s New & Noteworthy
Hack Education – 10 Interesting and Innovative E-Books/Apps
GoodEReader
Media Bistro
USA Today
Publisher’s Weekly
TUAW
148 Apps
Gizmodo

LINKS

To buy Wreck this App on iTunes, please click here
Citrus Suite Wreck This App blog post here
To see the Wreck this App page on Penguin’s website, please click here
To check out Wreck this App on Keri Smith’s website, please click here.
Wreck This App users on Tumblr here.

QUOTES

“Wreck This App is highly recommended. It has a pleasing interface and is whimsical and fun. In my humble opinion, it’s a great way to pass time, far better than playing Angry Birds or Plants vs. Zombies. “ TUAW

“…as an app it’s clever, brilliantly adapted for iOS and a word I am loath to use since it’s so seldom true – unique.” 148 Apps

“…this app is alot of fun and it is kid appropriate. Think of it as a multiple page activity book that both you and the kids can have alot of fun!” www.wired.com / GeekDad

“Wreck This App is one of the most unique apps I’ve come across. The app is bursting with creativity, and each prompt will speak to people in different ways so the possibilities are practically endless. Wonderfully Unique.” Apple ‘n’ Apps

“Poking holes through drawings, enhancing photos of yourself, and scribbling like a three-year-old are just a few of the ways the app can bring a few moments of childish delight to the user. “ Good eReader

“‘Wreck This App’ and the book from which it springs are complementary, not competitive, experiences” USA Today

“Wreck This App is a wonderful time killer. Imagine it as a children’s doodle book where you’re presented with basic instructions on each page (draw lines, tap the screen, color the page, doodle on the margins of the page) which you can follow or well, not. It’s really up to you. And that’s the appeal of it, hand this to any kid under 7 and watch their eyes light up. Hand this to someone who’s stuck on a train and they might surprise you with the art they come up with. It’s a guided but open-ended notebook, where what you create is up to you.” Gizmodo

“Wreck THIS APP, Totally Rocks! If you don’t know about Wreck This app by Keri Smith you are missing out. If you or your kids are the least bit creative you will want this app in your arsenal for your iPad! Check out the wreck this app, you won’t be disappointed. Even my 5 year old had fun doing her own journal pages.” MommyReview

“…even if you think you don’t have a creative bone in your body, you just may surprise yourself playing with this app.” Kind Over Matter

“…with Wreck this App, Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter, there really is no reason to be bored or uninspired ever again.. Now you just need to decide what to play with first! ” Her Library Adventures

USER IMAGES CREATED IN WRECK THIS APP

Fruit
A – Z (by adihrespati) below…

Fresh Ideas, Sharp Solutions.
Citrus Suite develops apps, software, games and produces 3D digital artwork. Developer on iPhone, iPad, Android, HTML5, PC, YouView, IPTV platforms (YouView, Google TV, Apple TV, etc.).

Development of apps from Liverpool, UK.

Citrus Suite recently completed ‘Wreck This App’ on iPad and iPhone for Penguin Books USA. Wreck This App, released globally on Tuesday 19th July 2011, is the studio’s interpretation of Keri Smith’s bestselling book Wreck This Journal. It’s already been reviewed in some great places – USA Today and the Wired Magazine. Wreck This App allows users to get creative, inspired by a series of prompts from Keri Smith. Users can draw, doodle, paint, edit photos and lots more. You can make great art with the app…

To buy Wreck this App on iTunes, please click here

Wreck This App Press & Links, please click here

To see the Wreck this App page on Penguin’s website, please click here

To check out Wreck this App on Keri Smith’s website, please click here.

In fact you should subscribe to the RSS because Keri is an inspirational writer.

What Next For Citrus Suite?
Citrus Suite will be working on an iPhone / iPad game for another US based publisher, and is involved in a Technology Strategy Board project that explores the potential of IPTV platforms such as YouView*.
*YouView – the forthcoming UK TV revolution (?) fronted by Non-Executive Chairman, Lord Alan Sugar.

Fresh Ideas, Sharp Solutions.
Citrus Suite develops apps, software, games and produces 3D digital artwork. Developer on PC, iPhone, iPad, Android and IPTV platforms (YouView, Google TV, Apple TV, etc.).

Development of apps from Liverpool, UK.

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Some Citrus Suite updates coming soon.

Citrus Suite develops apps, software, games and produces 3D digital artwork. Developer on PC, iPhone, iPad, Android and IPTV platforms (YouView, Google TV, Apple TV, etc.).

Development of apps from Liverpool, UK.

Citrus Suite is a developer of apps, software and games delivering interactive experiences across mobile devices, tablets, TV, PC and beyond.

Developing on iPhone, iPad, Android, PC and IPTV platforms (YouView, Google TV, etc.) the company are creating digital solutions for clients across multiple industries. Citrus Suite is currently working with a blue-chip client to create new user experiences on iPhone and iPad.

Alongside this app development work Citrus Suite is one of the first companies in the country developing for the immerging IPTV platform YouView. YouView, scheduled to launch in 2012, brings the the plug-in-and-watch simplicity of Freeview, plus the UK’s leading Internet catch-up and video on-demand services. Citrus Suite is taking apps to the TV, delivering tools to the viewer and providing services for content providers.

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Citrus Suite develops apps, software, games and produces 3D digital artwork. Developer on PC, iPhone, iPad, Android and IPTV platforms (YouView, Google TV, Apple TV, etc.).

Development of apps from Liverpool, UK.