'This game was originally designed by my partner, Shane Small,' Lee told Polygon. So what in the nine hells is he doing making a card game? Lee went on to co-found 42 Entertainment, the company responsible for Halo's I Love Bees ARG, as well as Year Zero, the ARG used to promote the Nine Inch Nails album of the same name. That alternate reality game was one of the first ARGs to break into the public consciousness. Stirring the OatmealĮlan Lee is famous in game design circles as the lead designer of The Beast, a promotional event for Steven Spielberg's movie A.I. Polygon reached out to one of the co-creators of the game, Elan Lee, to find out how it all started and where Exploding Kittens goes from here. Kicktraq projects that, at the going rate, trends towards $26 million, which if they continute would make it far and away the most heavily funded project in Kickstarter history.
Now the card game has become a runaway success.
It all started with a $10,000 ask and a funny video with some line drawings of pudgy cats. Plus kittens.Īs of the writing of this article it also has nearly $3.5 million dollars in crowdsourced funding, money it earned in just the first 3 days of its campaign. Hand grenade, nuclear power plant, regular-old TNT - the Kickstarter game has it all. Exploding Kittens is a card game where four players come together to help prevent a young, curious cat from inadvertently detonating something.
