Over the past week I've made a lot of changes to the look and feel of Fasteroids. Changes include fonts, music, spacing of certain elements, and new graphics to reflect points when an enemy UFO is shot. Changes have been made to the main menu and the new font makes the How to Play screen feel a bit more balanced. The music at the start of the game is nice and relaxed, but I changed the in-game music for something more upbeat and intense.

UFO's of different colours appear periodically amid the asteroids. If a UFO collides with an asteroid the UFO is destroyed, the asteroid is split up (or destroyed if in it's last form). There's no points if a UFO an asteroid collide. Before this release when the player hit the UFO it would explode and the player would receive points based on the colour of the UFO:

• Green UFOs == 1000 points
• Yellow UFOs == 1200 points
• Red UFOs == 2000 points
• Borg-like round UFO == 10000 points

The problem was there was really no visual indication of the points other than the player's score going up. This release adds those points in a bright gold scrolling up from the destroyed UFO for a few split seconds (visual feedback). UFO's still explode when shot, but now there's even more visual feedback.

(This effect set me down another path where I've also added a canister that will randomly appear periodically when the player destroys the Borg-like round UFO -- but I'm still working on this and it isn't in this version).

I'd been watching some videos and it occurred to me that the pause screen would be a lot better if I included things like the player's current score, the current high score, and how many lives the player has left. I then spent a good hour play testing with all the new changes and the game definitely feels a lot more fun and polished than previous releases.

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