Our product line

Eclectic on purpose.

We’re a small studio with an unusually broad product line — Hamstik for planning and delivering software, 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.

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ALM · Project managementFeatured

Modern application lifecycle management, without the overhead.

Hamstik

Hamstik brings projects, work items, Kanban boards, sprints, reporting, and team collaboration together in one cloud-hosted platform. Built by Blackboard Studios LLC for developers and teams who want powerful application lifecycle management without the complexity and administrative overhead of traditional enterprise tools.

Organize projects and work items in a shared workspace
Plan sprints and track delivery on Kanban boards
Keep team discussions and activity alongside the work
Understand progress with reporting and sprint analytics

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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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