Cem Berk Çakır
Lead Developer
Co-founder · 2022
He founded the studio in 2022 under the name Badgerallin and has led development ever since. He writes the game systems and the networking side, and he has the final say on what gets published.
STUDIO
From a friendship to a studio.
Cardlab Studios is an independent team building games where cards sit on the table as a theme or a mechanic.
Cardlab began with a friendship, not a company meeting. Friends since high school, Cem Berk Çakır and Yiğit Can Eroğlu started developing together as Badgerallin in 2022.
In 2024 the team took shape again under the name CardLabs. Mehmet Şanal, also known as Dede, joined during that period. Today Cardlab Studios is a group of friends working together remotely.
Cem leads development, Yiğit develops the games and Mehmet contributes through testing and development. Yasemin Serdengeçti works on art and sound design alongside development.
We may be in different places, but we share a table: making games where cards are a theme, a mechanic or a decision.
HOW WE WORK
A small team, a short distance
How we work
We are a group of friends working remotely. Not in sequence but in parallel: while one of us writes a system, another is already testing it at the table.
We are not an incorporated studio. We prefer to keep games small, get them played early and build on top of that.
What we believe
You find out whether a game works at the table. That is why we develop FrostZero by playing it in a closed Alpha.
A card is never only a number. When it is played, who sees it and what it hides are part of the game too.
PROJECTS
What we are working on right now
- Closed Alpha
FrostZero
Communication is down at an isolated research station in Antarctica. Hidden roles, conflicting goals and 4 to 7 players around one table. Reading the others matters as much as the cards in your hand.
- In development
ProjectWitch
A witch, a spell deck and hordes coming out of the dark. We are working on a survivor-like where your cards fight for you.
TEAM
The four at the table
The four of us work around the same table. Being listed on the team does not grant administrative access.
Yiğit Can Eroğlu
Developer
Co-founder · 2022
Friends with Cem since high school, he co-founded the studio alongside him in 2022. He works on game code and the systems behind it.
Mehmet Şanal
QA Tester · Developer Associate
A.k.a. Dede · 2024
He joined the team in 2024 and is known among us as Dede. He runs the closed Alpha sessions, then gathers the bug reports and brings them back to the team.
Yasemin Serdengeçti
Art · Sound · Developer Associate
Art and sound design
She takes on art and sound design, shaping how the games look and sound. She also takes part in development work.
