Chopsticks is the latest app developed by Citrus Suite for Penguin Group USA.
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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.

We have been working on an IPTV prototype which has been mentioned in the press recently.  Vision+Media are holding an IPTV event in December which should be interesting.

News from The Drum here and Screen England here

Some good press coverage:

“iPhone apps firms signed up by city’s big events”.

Article by Alistair Houghton,  via LDP Creative.

Follow up article in How-Do-Daily

Development Diary posts relating to “Project Canvas” have just been updated. You can find our first post here: Vision+Media blog1 and our second post here:  Vision+Media blog2

Citrus Suite in LDP’s Business News,  2nd August 2010.

Great local news article, almost a full page with photo Newspaper and Website. Via Liverpool Daily Post

We also got a mention on the Northwest Insider Website  Via Business Insider , as well as TechWatch,  OneNews, RapidTVNews, and GamesIndustry.com, as well as some other minor blogs.  Seems to be a good pic-up rate for this story.

“A Liverpool development studio has signed a deal to work on interactive television for the BBC…”

Second Citrus Suite Newsflash at the Business Desk // 30th July 2010 // Looking Good

Full Article via “The Business Desk”

We also got mentioned on Design Initiative’s new Futures Network website, Full Article via “Futures Network”

Citrus Suite, a new development studio in Liverpool has started working on interactive services for Project Canvas.

Project  Canvas has been created to develop a standard for internet   television  services in the UK and is being backed by BBC, ITV, Channel  4, BT and   Talk Talk. Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) allows you to  access   programmes via the web. It should be launching via set-top  boxes from Spring next year. Citrus Suite is creating a prototype to show how viewers can interact directly with one of the BBC’s existing shows.

“This is a golden opportunity to collaborate with the BBC and deliver a product using state-of-the-art technology – from a creative point of view this is where we want to be,” explained Chris Morland,  development director at Citrus Suite.

The company, which is based in Liverpool features 9 artists, designers and programmers from the city’s  games scene, who develop for Apple devices, Wii, PSP and PC.

Via How-Do-Daily

! Press release went out yesterday and we are already getting some good coverage 

We’ve now got a fixed a URL for the seemly obligatory Facebook company page…
http://www.facebook.com/citrus.suite

LinkedIn seems a bit more relevant for the business stuff, feel free to add me…
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/chrismorland

Don’t get me started on Twitter.

Andreas Heikaus pays homage to a certain famous plumber, with this fantastic peice of rotoscoping.

The marketing and design guys have added a Facebook page for us. Until there’s a fixed URL: Citrus Suite Facebook Page