Branded games. Playable content. Interactive storytelling.
Interactive work people remember.
Black Lizard builds branded games and playable experiences for dev-tool and security brands. The kind of work AI can't make. It runs. It's interactive. It takes real craft.
The work
Play it. Don't read about it.
Most recent client work is under NDA. So instead of a wall of logos, here are working demos you can try.
Live. Playable now.
Semgrep · racing game
Semgrep Speedway
A racing game that teaches. Players learn Semgrep's products by playing. The tutorial turns the pitch into gameplay. Fun on top, educational underneath.
Play the live game
Browser game
Sysdig · tower-defense game
Sysdig Cloud Chaos
A tower-defense game for a cloud-security brand. Build your defenses, hold the line, and learn the product while you play.
Built for Sysdig.
Two Apple Design Awards
Trixel Rocket · mobile game
Our own game, and it won
A mobile game we designed and built end to end. Two Apple Design Awards. The craft is ours, not borrowed.
See itInteractive storytelling
Make a complicated product click.
Some products are hard to explain in words. So we make them move. Rive and hand-built interactive animation that show how something works, so people get it in seconds instead of reading three paragraphs.
Why now
The web is full of AI sameness. Be the thing people remember.
Static pages, forms, and calculators are basically free to make now. That is exactly why they stopped standing out. What AI can't do is design a game that is actually fun, or an experience people choose to spend time in. That craft is the difference. Black Lizard makes interactive work that gets remembered.
What we build
Four ways to work together.
Every project starts with a short paid Discovery. It locks your scope and a fixed price. No guessing, no surprise quotes.
from $4k
Animation & storytelling
Rive and interactive animation that explain a complex product in seconds and make your site come alive. The easy place to start.
from $15k
Quick playable
One focused game or interactive tool for a campaign.
from $50k
Signature branded game
A full custom marketing game, built to be shown off and shared.
from $75k
Interactive system
A game plus the app or the tooling around it.
Still want a calculator or a quiz?
We build those too, and we make them feel like the rest of your brand instead of a generic widget. A fast, proven lead magnet. Just not the reason we get out of bed.
A live sample
The work we're still known for.
Calculators were our bread and butter for years, and we still build them. Here's a small one, running right here in your browser. Move the sliders.
- $120K fully-loaded salary
- 70% adoption
- Stays in your browser
A live sample of what we build. Yours would be branded, and as deep as the decision needs.
See the flagship calculatorMore marketer than security buyer? Take the 2-minute content assessment
Return on year-1 cost
1.6×
Estimated net year-1 ROI
$97,500
Pays for itself in about 4.6 months, board-defensible.
Illustrative numbers. The real build is modeled to your product and your buyer.
Interactive and branded work for 28 years.
A few brands we've built for, back through the decades
Consumer-era work across three decades. Recent security and SaaS clients are under NDA, so we show demos instead of a logo wall. That is the honest version, and the better one. You get to play the work.
Start with a Discovery.
Tell us what you want people to remember. We scope it, price it, and build something worth playing.