The few people who strung the cable

Glacierline started with a single mini golf hole sketched on the back of a trail map. One of us wanted to see whether a ball could bounce convincingly off a timber wall in a browser, and by the end of the weekend there was a dogleg, a slope and a stubborn moving gate. A second hole followed, then a whole course, and the idea of a line of games strung along a mountain cable took hold.

Today there are six stops, each written in plain code by our own hands and drawn in the same bright, chilly style: red cabins, turquoise water, warm lodge light. Cairn the bighorn wandered in early with his folded map and red fleece, and he has been showing riders to their stop ever since.

We are a small Canadian team, and we design for the way people really play: on a bus, on the couch after dinner, with a child leaning on one shoulder. Every game opens instantly, fits a phone or a big monitor, and keeps your progress on your own device without asking you to sign up.

What we care about most is fairness and calm. Scores come from skill, layouts are always solvable, difficulty climbs at a steady grade, and nothing interrupts you between rounds. If you leave the line a little more relaxed than when you arrived, the cable is doing its job.