Our product line

Eclectic on purpose.

We’re a small studio with an unusually broad product line — a retro-futurist BBS, a pixel-art tower defense game, a power-user utility, and an in-house game engine. Different audiences, same stubborn attention to detail.

Doorcade product preview from Blackboard Studios

Desktop app · GamingBeta

A modern BBS emulator for a new generation of door games.

Doorcade

Doorcade recreates the feel of dialing into a bulletin board system — the prompts, the menus, the green-phosphor glow — and pairs it with contemporary distribution and a fresh slate of “Door Games” built on our own WhimsyTale engine.

Authentic retro BBS experience with modern packaging
Runs a growing library of new door games, not just emulated classics
Cross-platform desktop builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Cloud save, profiles, and multiplayer lobbies under the hood

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PC game · SteamLive

Premium pixel-art tower defense built for Steam and PC.

Scrapbot Outpost

Scrapbot Outpost is a premium tower defense game where improvised robot defenders protect their power core from corrupted machine swarms using modular towers that grow stronger through smart adjacency bonuses.

Adjacency-driven tower bonuses reward thoughtful placement
Purpose-built lanes and encounters focused on defending the core
Premium desktop-first release available now on Steam
Retro-future pixel art with scrappy robot personality

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Browser utility · Power usersLive

Torrent and magnet links, captured automatically.

Torrent Snag

Torrent Snag detects torrent and magnet links on any web page and sends them straight to your preferred torrent client — or downloads them directly. Built with modern web standards and the kind of configuration surface that power users actually want.

Auto-detects torrent and magnet links across the open web
One-click send to qBittorrent, Transmission, Deluge, and more
Rich filtering, allow-listing, and per-site behavior rules
Fully offline — no telemetry, no accounts, no cloud

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WhimsyTale product preview from Blackboard Studios

Game engine · In-houseIn development

The in-house engine behind our cozy, text-first adventures.

WhimsyTale

WhimsyTale is the lightweight engine we built for ourselves — originally to power Doorcade’s door games, and now shaping into a scripting-first framework for cozy, narrative-driven experiences that boot in milliseconds and feel at home in a terminal or a window.

Declarative scene graph with a simple, readable scripting layer
Deterministic, replay-friendly game loop for multiplayer door games
Targets terminals, desktop windows, and embedded contexts
Tooling with live-reload, asset baking, and a visual scene editor

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We also build software for other people.

The same hands-on studio behind these products takes on a small number of client engagements each quarter — web, mobile, AI, and everything in between.

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