Pongus 0.2.0 Update (Better visuals)

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2020-04-17 by WanS24 (@MKnyazkin)

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Finally finished this one. Contains a lot of small improvements. Hope this will make the game feel a lot smoother.

Features:

Added animations (UI in "Defence" gamemode, canon shot in "Defence" mode, ball destruction in "Defence" mode, racket hit, ball spawn)
UI improved (added a bit of depth to it)
XBOX gamepad support
In "Classic" gamemode you now need to press a button to start a match
In "Classic" gamemode a ball now spawns randomly the first time, then it goes to player that lost a round
Controlls improved and made a lot more responsive
In "Defence" gamemode hint now shows for what points are scored
In "Defence" gamemode time is shown on game-over screen
Hints now show gamepad controlls
Garbage files deleted (the uncompressed game build now weighs 40% less compared to 0.1.1)
Frame ball skin made a bit thicker
Ball and racket skins' colors a bit changed
In "Defence" mode platform going down when hitting a ball bug solved
In "Defence" mode infinite ammo acquirment bug solved
Game icon changed (sadly not the exe. file one)
Game over and end of match menus now have tinted background
All texture files reimported to get rid of blur
Code cleanup (unnecesarry functions deleted, excess variables deleted, necessary functions optimized)