"Exploding Kittens" Blows Up Kickstarter Records

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 22, 2015 @05:45AM from the someone's-gotta-be-in-the-lead dept.

The Register reports that the crowdfunded Exploding Kittens card game from Oatmeal (and Tesla museum fund-raiser) Matthew Inman, along with X-box veterans Elan Lee and Shane Small, has become the highest-grossing game project yet on Kickstarter. After an intensive fundraising campaign, the trio collected $8.78m from 219,382 backers to launch the game. This breaks the record for the largest ever Kickstarter game project, previously held by hackable Android gaming console Ouya. According to the blurb on Exploding Kittens' (now closed) Kickstarter page, players "take turns drawing cards until someone draws an exploding kitten and loses the game."

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Re:Russian patent !! by OzPeter · 2015-02-22 06:35 · Score: 4, Funny

It is called Russian Roulette . ( i.e. exploding kitten brains ) It was a favourite pastime in USSR and had to be kick - started in a bar.
But it kinda lost its appeal when people moved from using revolvers to playing it with a semi-automatic pistol with a single bullet in the magazine.

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Re:Russian patent !! by Opportunist · 2015-02-22 11:32 · Score: 3, Funny

This is why we can't have nice things!

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