Golden Sun The Lost Age Editor Open Sourced (Dev alpha v0.5 download inside)

Developer Alpha Version 0.5

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Developer Alpha Version 0.5, Feb 25, 2012 (1.99 MB .zip)

Wait, the editor is open source now? What's going on?

I've realized that the editor doesn't just belong to me, it belongs to everyone here. Combined with the fact that ever since I enlisted in the Military I simply haven't had enough time, or energy to give the project the attention it deserves, this seemed like the logical choice to me. I'm opening up the project so that anyone with the skills, and desire can contribute to it. Toward that end I've released the program, and it's source under the GNU public license. What this basically means is anyone is free to copy, share, and modify the source as long as they give me credit, and it remains under the GNU public license.

As an additional note, I apologize in advance for my poorly organized, uncommented code.

What does this "Developer Alpha Version" nonsense mean?

This is the in-development version of the editor, it contains features that haven't been completed or fully tested. No guarantee is made about it's level of polish, or stability.

What features that haven't been completed?

1) The sprite editor of course, as I've said before it only works with 2 out of 4 sprite formats right now. It's extremely slow, hasn't been polished or fully tested yet. For example, while it's saving the editor may appear to lock up. It's still working on saving sprites it's just decided it's become too busy with that to play nice with Windows any more, after it's completed saving it will begin responding again.

2) The data viewer (which has been a long time coming, but still isn't finished) It's a gargantuan feature that won't be polished and final for a LONG time, it's still quite unstable and unpolished. Still, it can do a lot of cool things: view palettes, tilesets, images, Hex data, ASM code, scan code for data pointers, track where those data pointers are used in the code, e.t.c.

Can I make modifications and release my own version of the editor?

Yes you can! Just be aware of the following conditions:

- You must label your release as modified, you cannot release it as an "official" version of the editor under my name.
- Your modified version must also be released under the GNU public license.
- You must make your modified source code available for download.
- You can NOT remove any notices in the program that it was originally created by me, or that it is under the GNU public license

To label it as modified by you I highly recommend editing the create event of "obj_about" in the "titlebar buttons" folder of the Game Maker source code to include a statement that it is your modified version of the editor.

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