About Us

Max is a Graphics Swiss Army Knife, with over 20 years in Art Direction and Animation production in video games. He’s worked across 20+ titles including Assetto Corsa, and most recently Cyberpunk 2077 as Lead Artist. In 2019 he decided to formally study Game Design at Vancouver Film School. Now returned to Europe, he lives in Hungary building Mac n Cheese Games, his second studio. He’s also an avid miniature painter, which shows in the care he takes for his game art.

Maaroof has built game-based educational experiences for 15 years working across the globe including Australia, UK, Denmark and now Switzerland where he lives. He joined Labster as a founding team member in 2015, a start-up building game-like learning experiences and chaired by Unity Founder David Helgason. Maaroof grew it into a €600m company, with 400 people and over €150m in funding raised by top VCs including a16z. He worked 1:1 directly with legendary film-maker George Lucas for the last 3 years, being mentored in storytelling, business, and interactive experience.