But the video games were just the beginning. They've even taken the former Xbox Entertainment Studios chief design officer Lee back to video games, as the company released an Exploding Kittens premium mobile game and Kitty Letter, a free mobile game that combines established word find mechanics with the expected incendiary feline antics. The original Exploding Kittens proved to be a spark that spawned a variety of versions, expansions, and entirely separate games like Poetry for Neanderthals and Throw Throw Burrito. That game - also called Exploding Kittens, coincidentally enough - began as a record-setting Kickstarter campaign in January of 2015, raising $8.8 million from nearly 220,000 supporters. Let's entertain each other a little bit and use a card game as the mechanism to do that.' 'And I - with my partner Matt - started Exploding Kittens specifically to get away from that, to get away from the screen. 'My background is in video games,' Exploding Kittens CEO and co-founder Elan Lee tells in a discussion at the Collision conference in Toronto.
