
They also allow for the creation of mechanisms that may otherwise be impractical or impossible using standard game features, such as fast binary counters. Hoiks are most commonly used as a method of fast travel. It becomes easy to achieve horizontal travel at 60 or 120 tiles per second, and vertical travel at 180 tiles per second, which is much faster than many of the other 'legitimate' forms of travel.
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By chaining these glitches together via a series of strategically-placed shaped blocks, entities can be moved rapidly in any direction over long distances. When a character sprite shares space with a sloped block, the character is immediately displaced a couple of tiles in a predictable direction. Either way, I recommend Yoink wholeheartedly.See also: HOIK! - Rapid Player/NPC/Etc Transport Using Only Sloped TilesĪ Hoik is a sawtooth series of sloped blocks, sometimes referred to as "teeth", which can rapidly move entities across distances.

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If you’ve got a Mac you’ll want a license there as well, but given the fact that there’s a Handoff feature between the apps, it might be worth to pony up an additional $9. Yoink sits in my dock, and it might very well earn a place in yours as well. What I like is having a dedicated place to drop stuff I know I’ll need later, and getting that help to pull down images from a URL sure helps as well. Most of the app’s features can be reproduced in Files. You might not have any need for a file drawer such as Yoink. Very useful for someone like me, no need to hunt URLs to images using a web inspector, most of the time Yoink gets the job done. It seems to depend on how the image is included on a site, but overall, I’ve had great success with this feature. What’s not doable is hitting the share sheet on a linked image on a site, open Yoink, and have it pull down just the image. It fits my workflow perfectly, but yes, it’s completely doable with just the Files app. Whatever I know I need, right then and there, I can stick in Yoink, and it’s always there, up top, sorted after most recently added. Navigating the Files app can certainly be a bother. Or anywhere in the Files app, for that matter, but the thing is, I’ve got gigabytes, possibly terabytes, of data in iCloud. Now, I could just as well have saved that exported file (step 4) to, say, the Downloads folder in the Files app.


You can easily get to the most recent files added, which means that downloading and/or saving a file of any kind to Files will make it easy to find. I’ve written about that in the past, in one of the earliest issues of the Switch to iPad newsletter ( please subscribe).įast-forward to today, and the Files app will actually do for most people. So, you installed a file drawer app, and shared (using the share sheet) your files to said app, and hoped that whatever app you wanted to move the file to would support importing it. It was a mess, filled with workarounds and the like, before the Files app we have today, but honestly, afterwards too because even though it’s getting better, Files isn’t what it should or could be. If you wanted to upload an edited image to a web interface, but you had your edited photo in Pixelmator, you were kind of stuck. There was a time when iOS and iPadOS was less evolved, and you needed something commonly called file drawer apps to bounce files around.
