Art for the aforementioned BGG contest entry is well underway - as well as taking part in a competition, it's been a great exercise of my digital painting, which previously I've only really used for VN BGs and the like.

The board for my entry is a six-part modular board that can be refit into a variety of configurations, depicting an island-scattered tropical ocean. The below arrangement isn't actually possible, since it's two sides of the same board stuck together, but it's representative:

Islands

Boat!

I've recently been getting back into digital painting after a long time away from the tablet; BoardGameGeek is running a contest in a similar mould to the [i]Assemblee[/i] event/contest that TIGSource ran a while back. In the first half (until halfway through December) artists provide graphics and art intended to be turned into board games, but while they can position elements on the board and decide what pictures are available for cards, tokens, player pawns and so on, they don't have any say on the game itself. In the second half, game designers take the assets produced by one of the artists, and design a game which uses the images the artist provided.

Alpha 6 of my CC-licensed work-in-progress RPG Battle Engine for Ren'Py has now been released, adding experience, levelling up, a new condition/result event system, improvements to scenery-drawing and UI, and a load of bug-fixes. The rocks below are the newest addition! ;-)

Rocks!

I recently wrote an update on the status of the Ren'Py RPG Battle Engine I've been working on for a while; you can find it here:

http://www.eviscerate.net/content/update-alpha-6-nearly-done