'Games don’t have to have many rules to be engaging': Helaina Cappel of Kids Table Board Gaming on family-friendly designs

The Haunt the House and Foodfighters co-designer on how her experience as a teacher helped her work as a games publisher

Helaina Cappel with fellow Kids Table Board Gaming publisher (and husband), Josh

Too complex for kids; no real challenge for adults: that was the frustration Helaina and Josh Cappel found when playing mainstream titles when introducing their children to board games.

So they started Kids Table Board Gaming, focusing on creating games that hit the sweet spo…