Beating records since its very release on crowdfunding website Kickstarter, "Exploding Kittens" by Oatmeal, a card game that features things like laser beams, has now officially become the most backed project on the website's history, taking up almost 5 million dollars in only a bit longer than a week.
The official release of the "Exploding Kittens" Oatmeal project by famous webcomic artist Matthew Inman barely happened over the last days of January, but it has been breaking unforeseen records in the shortest time, as the creators of the card game struggle to keep up with stretch goals that make sense.
According to Business Insider, the "Exploding Kittens" Oatmeal Kickstarter started on January 20, when Matthew Inman, the man partly responsible for the rise of super popular hot sauce Sriracha, first posted the project and its Kickstarter on his website TheOatmeal.com, where it was accompanied by a great number of comics about grammar, dinosaurs, cats and hot sauce.
Then, as Tech Times reports, the "Exploding Kittens" Oatmeal project started breaking records only minutes after its release: the original goal of $10,000 was reached in only 20 minutes, and less than an hour later they had gone up to $1.4 million, which is to say a full 1000 percent of their original goal, barely minutes away.
While the most famous man behind the project is The Oatmeal himself, Matthew Inman, according to Discovery News, the two people behind the gameplay of "Exploding Kittens" are veteran game designers Elan Lee and Shane Small, who have in the past worked with such big platforms as Xbox.
The massive and unexpected support for the project has made the creators think over what they might be doing with the money, when more than 122,800 people have already backed the project; those who pledged more than $20 will get the game, and those who've put more than $40 will get an extended version of the game directed at people who like "kittens and explosions and laser beams and sometimes goats."
While the "Exploding Kittens" Oatmeal Kickstarter is still not the project that has earned the most money in the history of the site, it's still 19 days to go until it closes, and, when writing this article, the project had obtained $4,954,201.
