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GCSE Student Launches New Appstore Hit with Help From в The Studio of Dreamsв

2010-09-02 07:33
For the past 3 weeks, our friends from ustwoв have been working on a radical new iPhone app with the latest member of the team, Jack McLean - a 16-year old workВ experience student. Here are all the details of the incredible story and an exclusive interview with Jack. Having recently finished his GCSEs, and unlike most teenagers over the summer holidays, Jack intended to spend his free time doing work experience,В making sure his dreams of becoming a famous iPhone app developer became a reality. В In just 3 weeks he developed, produced and launched TerryВ Touchв - with some help from the team at ustwoв . The premise of the app is simple: Tap, Slide, Glide or Spin your way to the top of the leader board. Terry Touchв is a finger tapping, nerve-shatteringВ game designed to push your touch skills to a new level. Compete using the 4 simple games to beat your best score and donв t let Terry Touch down! Jack McLean, the creator of Terry Touchв , says, It was the best 3 weeks I have had! Working alongside fantastic developers and designers was like aВ dream. I learnt more from creating Terry Touch than I would have learnt from 3 months in a computing lesson, and it was fun! Itв s so exciting to beВ involved with an inspiring company and work with them throughout the creation and release of an iPhone application. Mills, Creative Director at ustwoв , adds We constantly want to innovate and experiment with our publishingв s and Terry Touchв showcases ourВ willingness to be at the forefront of this experimentation. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity for any kid of Jackв s age to be given the chance to doВ commercial work during a placement, and Jack has gone above and beyond our expectations with his phenomenal dedication to Terry Touchв . Jack first impressed ustwoв back in Nov 2008 by creating his own successful iPhone application, aged just 14 years. The free в Countdown toВ Christmasв app has been downloaded125,286 downloads since launch, and used mobile advertising to rake in enough profit for Jack to buy a MacBookВ Pro. Terry Touchв is FREE to download from the iTunes App Store now Most of your school friends did work experience in banks, newsagents and supermarkets but you chose to work for a iPhone app development studio - why I got into programming when I was 14 and I published my first iPhone application on the App Store in 2008. I then published another simple one in 2009. By this time my interest had grown massively. About a year ago I did compulsory work experience with school and decided to do it at a local debt management company in their programming department and it put me off programming altogether because the work was so boring and mudane. I therefore decided to concentrate on the sort of development work I was interested in and off my own back I emailed ustwoв and to my surprise was immediately contacted by the man himself, mills. ustwoв is a company I have followed on twitter for over a year and Iв ve been fascinated by their mad...
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