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.

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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