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From Kickstarter to Netflix: The Exploding Kittens Journey | Elan Lee
The collaboration of The Oatmeal cartoonist Matt Inman and video game designer Elan Lee on Exploding Kittens has been a fruitful one.
Every game hits on: make the people you’re playing with entertaining, and provide a world you can dive deeper into if you want, so we can continue to build that IP and create franchises. All of this stuff had to fall in line perfectly in order for places like Netflix to say, “Yeah, we’ll pay a ton of money to produce this thing,” in order for Mike Judge and Greg Daniels to sit on that couch and say, “We heard we’d be stupid to not sign up for this thing, and we agree.” Those are the side effects of all that hard work, which largely goes unnoticed and invisible. It’s incredible to see people come out of the woodwork saying, “What does the franchise look like?” Instead of being printed on cardboard, those characters could move around and have voices and live in a world.
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