Hey there guys!

Aside from my character drawings I work at the very cool Klei Entertainment and a game I worked on came out and I had a blast making it! It's called Griftlands and it's a "deck-building roguelite where you negotiate, fight, steal or otherwise persuade others to get your way." I did a bunch of design work, art and gameplay and worked with a really amazing team, it's available on a bunch of platforms but here's a good ol' steam link. Thanks for checking it out!

-Jouste

Hey Guys!

     After almost 3 years of hard work our game Viking Squad is out! It's a fun, arcade throwback to brawlers with a lane based approach to combat. It's built by a core group of 3 people out of Vancouver Canada with sound from Power Up Audio and music from A Shell In The Pit. Holy crap is developing a game a ton of hard work!

     I like to think that alot of my influences and confidence was forged in the art section here on newgrounds. Adding art for the sake of art and getting you guys to comment on it or send me the odd message of support really helped so thanks to everybody at Newgrounds!

so here's the link to Steam and the link to the PS4 store.

Launching is a scary time for any developer. Thanks for dropping by!

*highfives*

-jouste the drawbarian

Hey guys! 

Thanks to the great folks over at the Indie Mega Booth we'll be showing Viking Squad up this year at PAX Prime! 
We are super excited to get our game in front of people again, Pax East this year was great and the games gotten even better since then!
So if any of you guys are hitting up PAX Prime in Seattle this year it would be awesome if you could stop by and say hey! I'll be the bearded loud guy with the bandana showing off our Viking Brawler! Check out our quick look trailer below!
 

And here's a handy dandy map of finding us! We'll have 2 stations up so bring all your pals and get some Viking Squad done up during your awesome time at PAX!

Thanks a ton everyone! And just a quick note, we do Dev-streaming every Wednesday right here! as well as update our Dev-Blog right here, feel free to check it out if game development interests you at all! I've been with an independent game development team for about 3 years now and it's the best job I'll ever have. I'm always open to answer questions as well! have a good one and thanks for checking out our game!

-jouste the drawbarian

Hey guys!

This week I'll be heading out too the Game Developers Confrence till Wednesday then hitting the Indie Mega Booth at PAX East! If anyone's around there be sure to stop and say hey to me and my team! We'll be showing off Viking Squad! Hooray!

-jouste the drawbarian

Hey guys!

I really need to do more of this action haha. Anyways, the game I've been working on with our team of three here at Slick Entertainment has been announced with a cool trailer! come check it out! 

We also got featured on the playstation blog site! How cool is that!? 

We are also super open with our development process so check out our dev-blog weekly that has neat art stuff here

And last but not least! We've started dev-streaming Wednesdays at 4pm PST on twitch right here

So that's a news/link storm! I'll be posting up some of the development art I've done for Viking Squad if there's an interest. I just wanted to say thanks so much for everyone dropping me comments and keeping me drawing! I'll be sure to get some fun new characters and stuff up on here soon!

mad loves to all

-jouste the drawbarian

Hey Guys!

Been far too long since Iv'e done one of these! I just got home from the best PAX ever. Crypt of the Necrodancer showed super well and we had such a crazy time there showing it to everyone. The DDR pad was busted out (replaced by a better one from a Local fan, thanks David!) and tons and tons of dancers hit it up and rocked it! A huge thanks to Brace Yourself Games (Ryan Clark) and the super awesome Ted Martensfor being such an awesome team! I feel like our Team is so freaking stacked I had to drop by here and just say it. Danny B (from super meatboy) on the soundtrack, Kevin Regamey of Powerup Audio powerupaudio.com/

also we JUST released this trailer that's super cool! I'l also try and post up the concept work I've been doing right here.

necrodancer.com/

so drop by and check it out! Thanks so much guys.

-jouste the drawbarian

Hey Guys,

So my game came out!

I'm super excited about it and worked really hard the last 6 months on it. It was probably the best experience I've ever had working on anything. I drew absolutely everything in the game and we built it with a super small team in a tight 6 months. There is a ton of myself in this game and it's got me really nervous/excited about what people think of it.

Anyways I wanted to drop you guys a line now that it's out! The Newgrounder crews always drop me the odd line and give me a boost so thanks for all your help!

-jouste the drawbarian

Hey Newgrounders!

So My Game is hitting the stores July 26th! It`s called Shellrazer, and here`s a link to the cool trailer!

We Dev-Blogged every week of development here and started up the old facebook here.

I`m super excited cause it`s been a ton of fun to work on and draw everything in the game. Check it out and let me know what you think! Thanks a million!

-jouste the drawbarian

Hey all! I rarely write these things but I had a ton of fun last weekend building a game in 48 hours!

It was super fun and we had a great team of 3 guys.
Nick Waanders (Code), Kevin Regamey (Sound), and me for the art.

the voices (all awesome) were:
Stephanie Komure, Colin Regamey, and Joshua Matumona.

and the sweet music was done by:
Riley Koenig

The theme was "Alternate Universes" So we made a game about an ogre that has to exterminate the horde of princesses in a castle.

It's caled "Princess, Die" and here's a video of it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqDJdmBvv1c&featu re=share

and here's some stills!
http://imgur.com/a/0YYaX

48 hours isn't a lot of time so you really need to just get as much done as you can as fast as you can. I learned a ton of stuff that will help make our next platformer super cool! thanks for checking it out guys!

-jouste the drawbarian

Hey all!

So I've been super busy lately but for good reason! I just got hired on by Slick Entertainment (the guys responsible for N+ on the Xbox and Scrap Metal) and am doing all the art for a new IOS game! It really is the greatest job I've ever gotten, I'll be posting up all the art here but I've also been posting a Dev Blog weekly on all the progress! Check them all out here!

It's a great game where you are a giant turtle with cannon's on your back that you can customize as you explode your way thorough a whole pile of levels! There will be a lot more stuff coming and I wanted to thank everyone for following my stuff and there will be a lot more coming. stay cool everyone!

-jouste the drawbarian