This release brings a number of small changes:

• There's now a translucent bounding box around the score, lives and waves. I've played with creating half-a-dozen UI elements and this one seemed to work with the game the best.
• I've switched out my voice for Game Over and Last Player to Maria's voice. These are temporary place-holders. We're going to work on the voice acting a bit more in the near future.
• There's a new asteroid. In the screenshot above it's the asteroid in the top left corner passing under the Lives bounding box. I was trying a new technique for creating sprite work. I'm still not sure if it will work in the future, but I may create more asteroids for more variety. I've played with other colours in the past (grey's, black/blue combinations) and they just didn't feel right.
• Some behind the scenes changes make it slightly simpler for me to build the Ubuntu .deb files. I created a shell script to automate some of the process for me, but the script has a very long way to go. Unfortunately GameMaker doesn't seem to have an option to zip Ubuntu files in a sub-directory based on the filename given for the zip file (e.g. fasteroids_1.0-3). When zipped the fasteroids executable and assets directory get zipped to whatever directory the zip file is in (vs fasteroids_1.0-3). My script file moves the GMS Ubuntu zip file and unzips it (using unar which can take the -d option to create the directory) to my debpkgs/ folder where I have a folder with some build information. There's still quite a bit of manual work that I'm working on automating. My issue at the moment is taking an inputted filename and storing it in a variable - minus the zip part. I tried a few regex commands, but nothing seemed to store correctly in the variable.

I'm sure I'm forgetting some changes. Oh yes, it's not in the game, but the code/build contains a new player weapon for future implementation. It's December 25. For those who celebrate Merry Christmas! For those who don't happy holidays. And if you're working today I hope you have the chance to relax and enjoy the day.