Having friend'd Mike Rayhawk himself on Facebook is glorious. Yesterday, he posted a link to this guy's personal LEGO redesign project. The research and schematics behind it are insanely extensive, and everything looks perfectly functional. The sketches themselves were even really nice...
And thus, feeling inspired, I popped open my shiny copy of GIMP early yesterday afternoon and set to work.
So, I'm still working on the Wesnoth Strategy series, but a side project has come up while I was doing more multiplayer research.
A while ago I made an IRC game called Zombies!, which was sort of loosely based off of an audio-only miniseries Olothontor and I produced an episode of a while back. It was a turn-based game with support for a few different kinds of weapons, and user-created maps. It was pretty fun, but then I started building on its success.
The patches brought the game to its knees.