A Kickstarter funding record has been set after "Exploding Kittens" raised a total of $8,782,571 during the course of its campaign. The record dethroned "Ouya" as the highest funded game-related project by the crow-sourcing website
"Exploding Kittens" is a game created by Xbox game designers Elan Lee and Shane Small who tapped the services of Matthew Inman to provide illustrations. Despite its creators video game background "Exploding Kittens" is a card game.
The game is played by drawing cards in a pile and the player who picks the card that has a bomb on it loses. However, there are special cards that will give users the ability to defuse the bomb as well as tools that can halt a cat's mischiefs and there are also cards that will give users in-game powers, according to MCV.
Its creators jokingly describe the game as "a kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette."
Before "Exploding Kittens" set the Kickstarter record, it was first held by Ouya. The project aims to develop a $99 console that runs on its own version of the Google Android operating system.
"Exploding Kittens" also managed to set a record number of backers. Throughout the campaign it amassed a total of 219,382 backers which is more than 100,000 ahead of the "Reading Rainbow" backers, according to Engadget.
The record set by "Exploding Kittens" is the third highest in Kickstarter history. The number one spot is being held by "Star Citizen," a video game project that raised a record $72, 188, 761 during its crowd-funding campaign.