I have a question that has burning at the back of my metaphorical soul ever since I found your games. I hope you don’t mind me asking :-). But considering you said ask you anything, and this shouldn’t be a rude or offensive question… Here goes:
Is your name, “shift back tick”, significantly different than the simple character ~ or the name “tilde”, beside just being a longer form? I.E. if I were to talk about tilde’s games, would it make any since at all.
-Michael.
:-)} All in fun.
Excellent question! 😹
The handle is a reference to the tilde. On a US English keyboard, that’s what I press to type that character.
My first major encounter with the tilde was in college while learning Max/MSP in a few music classes. I liked how its meaning changed in the software to represent a sine wave, or the foundation of everything we hear.
For a few years I’ve had a tiny tilde tattooed on my wrist, when making this sort of electronic music was still just a daydream. It’s funny how that’s materialized into this hobby!
That’s all to say, that you could refer to these things by tilde, when the context is right.
