Words by Dan Jolin
It was in April that Kasper Lapp first realised just how big his Magic Maze was getting. First, the 37-year-old Danish designer received word that his real-time co-operative title – the first game he’d ever published – was the ‘HIT’ of 2017’s ultraexclusive Gathering of Friends convention. That word (caps and all) was used by Dale Yu, editor of The Opinionated Gamers, who took a copy of Magic Maze to Alan Moon’s Niagara Falls-based, invite-only shindig and urged everyone he could to give it a go. (Yu’s copy was “well worn” by the end of the convention, he blogged, “and has been constantly in play”.)