I have not, though I have in a sense on other projects (not in the strict definition of binary arithmetic, but just shuffling strings around).
Well, if you consider that shifting a string is displacing a whole byte is a sort of bit shifting, so I guess your nickname is still accurate XD. By the way, I loved playing your first game and looking forward to playing the second one
Thanks! And let me know if you have any thoughts/feedback after playing.