From Kickstarter to Netflix: The Exploding Kittens Journey | Elan Lee

The collaboration of The Oatmeal cartoonist Matt Inman and video game designer Elan Lee has been a fruitful one. And I recently caught up with Lee at our GamesBeat Next 2024 event to talk about the journey they have taken with Exploding Kittens.

This wacky entertainment franchise started as a card game, with a concept so wacky that it broke records for raising money on Kickstarter. Instead of hitting their goal of $10,000, they raised $8.7 million from more than 200,000 backers on the crowdfunding platform in 2015.