Inman created The Oatmeal, a popular webcomic and humour website, in 2009. He specialised in Alternate Reality games, including The Beast, which was used to promote Steven Spielberg’s 2001 film A.I. He then became a lead game designer for Microsoft Studios, working on titles for both PC and Xbox. was formed in 2015 and has sold 11 million copies of this game and others (as of 2022).īefore Exploding Kittens, Lee had a varied career, beginning as a character designer for special effects company Industrial Light and Magic. Lee and Inman initially sought to raise $10,000 but received donations of $8.7 million from 219,000 donors in just 30 days.
Exploding Kittens was developed by Elan Lee and Matthew Inman following the most successful Kickstarter campaign in the history of the crowdfunding platform.
