“We launched with the goal of raising only ten thousand dollars for what we thought would be a simple little weekend project. What if instead, the thing you were most nervous about drawing was an adorable little kitten? We could call the game Exploding Kittens”Įxploding Kittens launched on Kickstarter just two months later. Being scared of drawing a bomb is obvious and boring. It was at his suggestion that the game turned from a hobby to a reality, as he offered both to illustrate the cards, and told him frankly that “the game has no soul. Through a mutual friend, Lee met Inman, and played the game with him. We used a standard deck of poker cards and wrote the word “bomb” on each of the jokers” This simple and fun game was the foundation for what would later become Exploding Kittens. The idea was simple.Russian Roulette with a deck of cards. I designed a simple card game with my buddy Shane Small and we called it “Bomb Squad”. Something that friends and family could play together in the same room. I needed a break from digital design and wanted to work on something more social. On the other hand – paw? – Lee balances this by saying “My job is mostly to make sure the stuff we make is fun,” Having worked in the video game industry before moving to the board game world, he resigned from the position of Chief Design officer at Xbox. Now though, “in my role, I oversee the design team to bring our characters and the games to life”, Inman tells us, noting that his distinctive illustrations have appeared on all ten of Exploding Kittens games, as well as in their new venture into mobile apps, with Kitty Letter. This is the same artistic direction that catches our eye and makes an Exploding Kittens game stand out from the shelf. Inman was known prior to Exploding Kittens, first for a comic of his going viral – How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting To Kill You – and then for his full time comic writer role in founding The Oatmeal, a comic and humour website. Pick up the latest issue of the UK's fastest-growing gaming magazine in print or digital here. This article originally appeared in issue 57 of Tabletop Gaming. We spoke to the creators of Exploding Kittens the company, Elan Lee, and Matt Inman, about how the company came to be, what it’s been up to, and further, where it’s headed. E xploding Kittens on its name alone may not sound like the type of game that would grab your attention – especially the feline friendly amongst us – but it certainly did back in 2015, with an explosive (see what I did there?) Kickstarter campaign that remained the highest funded game on Kickstarter until Frosthaven toppled its crown only last year.
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