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Mittens' Cat Cafe Mayhem
A fast-paced arcade game set in Victor's chaotic cat-overrun café. Catch glasses, fulfill orders, and survive the mayhem across two frantic minigames.
Black Cat Studios
Indie software studio in Zonhoven, Belgium.
Crafting modern apps and software you actually want to use.
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Sander's Portfolio
A personal portfolio website designed and developed to showcase projects and professional work. Clean, modern, and built with attention to detail.
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IMEX Commercial Signage
A digital signage system deployed at a local automotive business. Cycles through six animated frames with live weather, news, and media, served from a self-hosted Docker container on a Raspberry Pi.
About
Built with care
Built with care
and attention to detail.
We're a small, independent software studio based in Zonhoven, in the Belgian province of Limburg.
At Black Cat Studios, we design and build digital products for mobile, web, and backend.
We care a lot about details and simplicity. How things look, how they feel, and how they actually work in real life.
Working independently allows us to stay close to the work, move quickly, and maintain a high standard for everything we ship.
Web Platforms
Full-stack web applications with modern frameworks and clean architecture.
Mobile Applications
Cross-platform apps built with Flutter for iOS and Android.
Custom Software
Bespoke tooling, APIs, and backend systems built to spec.
UI/UX Design
Interface design systems that prioritize clarity and user intent.
Web Platforms
Websites we've built.
Full-stack web applications and sites crafted with modern frameworks and attention to detail.
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Pookiebase
Companion website for a modern book collection manager app.
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Lindsey's Portfolio
Personal portfolio showcasing projects, experiments, and applications.
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Sander's Portfolio
Personal portfolio website showcasing projects and professional work.
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Pookiebase
The companion website for the Pookiebase app: a modern book collection manager designed for collectors who take their libraries seriously. Track, organize, and discover books with a focused, well-designed experience.
Lindsey's Portfolio
A personal portfolio showcasing projects, experiments, and applications built over time. Designed as a creative project in itself, documenting ideas, technical explorations, and finished work from Black Cat Studios.
Sander's Portfolio
A personal portfolio website designed and developed to showcase projects and professional work.
Mobile Applications
Apps we've built.
Cross-platform mobile apps built with Flutter, crafted for iOS and Android.
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Pookiebase
A modern book collection manager for collectors who take their libraries seriously.
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Mittens' Cat Cafe Mayhem
A fast-paced arcade game set in Victor's chaotic cat-overrun café. Catch glasses, fulfill orders, and survive the mayhem.
More coming soon
Pookiebase
A modern book collection manager designed for collectors who take their libraries seriously. Track, organize, and discover books with a focused, well-designed mobile experience.
Mittens' Cat Cafe Mayhem
Step into Victor's café, a charming but chaotic place overrun by mischievous cats. What was once a peaceful café has turned into a constant mess of flying glasses, cat hair and chaos, and you're the new helper hired to bring order back.
Bar Duty: Catch falling glasses on your tray before they hit the floor. Dodge mice, rack up points, and push your reflexes to the limit.
Kitchen Duty: Prepare sandwich orders against the clock in a fast-paced cooking minigame. Watch out for cats stealing your ingredients. Scare them away in time or fix the order before it's too late.
Earn coins through gameplay and achievements, then spend them unlocking café customization options. More minigames are planned for future updates.
Bar Duty: Catch falling glasses on your tray before they hit the floor. Dodge mice, rack up points, and push your reflexes to the limit.
Kitchen Duty: Prepare sandwich orders against the clock in a fast-paced cooking minigame. Watch out for cats stealing your ingredients. Scare them away in time or fix the order before it's too late.
Earn coins through gameplay and achievements, then spend them unlocking café customization options. More minigames are planned for future updates.
Other Projects
Custom builds & deployments.
Bespoke systems, embedded installations, and custom software built to spec.
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IMEX Commercial Signage
Digital signage system deployed at a local automotive business. Cycles through six animated frames driven by a Raspberry Pi in kiosk mode.
More coming soon
IMEX Commercial Signage Display
A digital signage system deployed at a local automotive business (IMEX). Running as a web application served from a self-hosted Docker container, displayed on a commercial screen driven by a Raspberry Pi in kiosk mode.
The display cycles through six themed frames in an endless loop: a welcome screen, a facilities overview, product advertisement videos, a live weather forecast, local news headlines, and partner advertisement videos. Each transition between frames is animated via smooth SVG path morphing using Flubber.js, creating a fluid cutout effect where the visible area of the underlying video morphs from one shape to the next.
Content is managed by simply adding or removing files from Docker-mounted media folders, no restart required. The weather and news frames pull live data from external APIs (Open-Meteo and HBVL RSS), cached to minimize requests.
The display cycles through six themed frames in an endless loop: a welcome screen, a facilities overview, product advertisement videos, a live weather forecast, local news headlines, and partner advertisement videos. Each transition between frames is animated via smooth SVG path morphing using Flubber.js, creating a fluid cutout effect where the visible area of the underlying video morphs from one shape to the next.
Content is managed by simply adding or removing files from Docker-mounted media folders, no restart required. The weather and news frames pull live data from external APIs (Open-Meteo and HBVL RSS), cached to minimize requests.