It started in 1995 as one of America's largest annual puzzlehunts and an offshoot of LIVE/WIRE, held at the Gen Con and Origins gaming conventions before later being adapted into a novel.
It was created by game designers Mark Gottlieb, Mike Selinker, and Teeuwynn Woodruff.
$2500 worth of electrical tape was used to create the titular "Maze" on the convention show floor.
After finding no success shopping a manuscript among publishers, on January 28, 2013, he launched a Kickstarter project for an interactive novel with the same name.
[3] The initial Kickstarter project was funded within 4 hours and 48 minutes and featured several stretch goals for backers.