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Exploding Kittens is a card game that involves cats that explode, lasers, magical enchiladas, meat bikinis and goats. The game sounds very fun and the Exploding Kittens Kickstarter campaign is the biggest and most backed project ever to exist on the crow funding website.
The card game which has been described as a kitten-powered Russian Roulette that is very strategic reached the goal of $10,000 in just 20 minutes and $100,000 in under an hour. The game at this moment raised over $4.6 million.
Forbes claims that the game is likely to raise around $15 million by the time the campaign will close in February. 10 days after the launch of the campaign, the game had over 117,000 backers, which are the most backers on a project in the history of the Kickstarter website. The game is also climbing in charts regarding how much money it raised. Currently the top campaign in the Kickstarter charts is the Ouya game console that raised $8.6 million.
The game is developed by Matthew Inman and video game designers Shane Small and Elan Lee. Exploding Kittens demands players to avoid the card with the exploding kitten. The exploding kitten card causes the player to explode and to die. To diffuse, players may use numerous cards like laser pointers, catnip sandwiches, kitten therapy and magical enchiladas. The cards called portable cheetah butt, thousand year back hair or the Abracrab Lincoln, Tacocat and magical meat bikinis allow players to skip a turn.
Players can also sneak a peek at the cards in the pile by consulting with the all-seeing goat wizard or by scratching the tummy of a pig-a-corn. The game is kid-friendly and very strategic, as claimed by the developers.
The developers of the Exploding Kittens card game have written on the Kickstarter page that they are grateful for all their backers and thanked the community for being the “mostestest”. Whatever that means…
The kid-friendly deck of cards is priced at $20 and the NSFW version is $35. The NSFW version allegedly contains cards that are “too horrible” to be included in the kid-friendly game. People who spend $100 on the campaign will get the collector’s edition of the game which is autographed by all the creators. There was also a $500 deal for the “Deck of Legends” that included all the things in the $100 package plus a hand drawn card by each of the game’s developers, but that is sold out.
