The end of my leave period, that is. I go back to San Diego tomorrow, and then it's back to work the following day.

I also plan to end my break from Pokemon Purple, and resume development of it on the 10th. My failed attempt of a game for F4D will be put on the backburner for now, but eventually I'll come back to it and make it into a fully-functional and polished game.

In other news, I'm currently considering creating a program for reading and writing my CSB image format using means other than Game Maker. Right now I'm considering using either Java or Python, because I at least have some experience with those, even if it is minor and very rusty.

I need to be able to open image files (JPG,GIF,PNG,etc.), read the colors of individual pixels within the image, and read/write files on a byte level. Any opinions on what languages are the easiest to do these things in?