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Exploding Kittens shows us the keys to Kickstarter records: Cute cats and The Oatmeal

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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This idea for an Exploding Kittens card game is pure gold, combining explosions, kittens, and a card game published by online comedy site The Oatmeal. And that may explain why Exploding Kittens has raised $2.67 million from 68,253 backers in just two days of its Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.

It is the biggest tabletop game project already in the history of Kickstarter, according to the crowdfunding site. And it is already the fourth-largest game funding ever, including projects for both board games and video games.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.