I second that as a developer.

I'm pretty sure BartK said that's not going to happen. If the artists want to share, they can. (And to a certain extent, they certainly have!)

BartK just wants to keep us in suspense :P

But now its  a long time and the suspense should be revealed.

It's like waiting for Christmas morning, eh?

Like I said, part of the contest is that the artists only have to reveal their submissions if they want to. I think there's already a good deal of previewable art in the next thread over. Also, if you lurk on IRC, you'll see a lot of people talking about and showing off their WIP art.

It's likely that the first few days of the programming portion of the competition will (should?) have the programming teams inventorying the available art and thinking of creative ways to use it.

pennomi is correct.  It's up to the artists whether they want to release their works before the contest deadline.

I'll also point out that the development phase of the contest is also a month, and most game writing contests are a weekend.  As such, you'll have plenty of time to plan when the time comes, even if you haven't seen all the art entries until the code contest starts. :)