I spent a lot of time researching and figuring out how to create some better explosions for the UFOs. Previous explosions were a few white particles that spread out from the UFO. Those particles didn't look very dramatic. I decided to replace them with a couple of different explosions I worked on in Aseprite. Aseprite really made the job a lot more interesting. Up until now I've done a lot of work in GIMP despite the fact that I bought Aseprite well over a year ago and have watched different videos on using it. This is really the first time using it that I've been happy with the results... they're not perfect, but they the explosions make the game feel a bit more fun (now I just need to add sound effects to go with them).

Now that these are done I'm thinking about the Asteroids a bit more... they may eventually get reworked again too.

The observant will notice there is no Ubuntu release - after having finally successfully released a version. Unfortunately when I compiled and ran this version I got a segfault on my Ubuntu test machine. I think I might know what the problem is, but it's late so I'm going to get some sleep and confirm the issue in the morning. It may take some time to fix, but the plan is to maintain both versions as long as I don't keep running into segfaults.

Hope you enjoy the new UFO explosions!