(Sister Beth, for instance, commemorated Carrot’s Apple Design Award win by emailing him the following: “You’re probably getting lots of congratulatory messages, so I just wanted to remind you that you are the worst.”) Her dark, devious personality, however, comes from those closest to Mueller: his mom, sister, and wife - all of whom tease one another relentlessly. “That was basically the extent of what I could do in Core Animation in iOS at the time.” Instead, he popped into Photoshop, drew a simple pattern of three circles, and then began playing around with animation, eventually landing on a nefarious-looking pulsing red light drawn straight from the HAL and GLaDOS school of evil sentient robots. But it was way too hard for me to animate a cartoon dog.” “The dog’s name was Sir Waffles, and he had a top hat and monocle,” Mueller laughs. In a matter of months, Mueller had his first title, a to-do list app called Grailr whose mascots were an Indiana Jones-type character and his cartoon dog sidekick. But it wasn’t anywhere near as over my head as I thought, so I just started building.” “I got a book on iOS development, mostly so I could flip through the vocabulary and not sound like a complete idiot. “I figured if I was going to build an app, I’d just hire someone to do it for me,” he says. “I love to write and create characters and tell stories, but I had no real idea of what I would do with my life.” He found the idea of apps intriguing, but had no experience to draw from. “I’m an English major with a creative writing minor,” Mueller says. It’s a long way to go for a guy who started developing on the side seven years ago while pursuing a full-time career as - not entirely surprisingly - a screenwriter.
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