Various other kickstarters have used some kind of social media "push" website that sends out a ton of twits and posts to all the social media sites at a specific time and date ... can't remember what it was called, I do not use social media myself, maybe someone here knows what I am talking about and can suggest it ti the EK team?
come on we are sitting on pins and needles waiting for the new update :-)
Patrick Thurston 2015-01-26T14:00:26-05:00
Wouldnt it be great to add 15 bucks and get a t shirt i would love a exploding cat tshirt any merch really it would be to die for
Jack "StarCat Hero" Henderson 2015-01-26T14:00:47-05:00
Just sittin' here waiting for the update! :P
Peter S. 2015-01-26T14:01:21-05:00
Let's beat those Rainbow goodie two shoes!
Ryan Sigler 2015-01-26T14:01:42-05:00
I would buy a T-shirt or some other kind of merch, as long as it didn't delay the game.
sarah simmons 2015-01-26T14:01:43-05:00
YAAAAY!!! :D
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-01-26T14:02:34-05:00
234 backers in the last hour!
Katherine Profeta 2015-01-26T14:02:43-05:00
I would love a commemorative exploding kittens t-shirt, I would even pay more for it...it could highlight the milestones and records we have broken and will break :D
John Foster 2015-01-26T14:02:55-05:00
Sorry to disappoint, but as epic as this project is, there is no way in hell it's going to reach $17 million.
Current average amount pledged is $39.19 (as at 100,065 backers and 3,921,214 pledged).
Assuming that average rate continues (and it's unlikely to change by much), you'd need 433,81 backers to hit £17 million, that's more than 4 times the amount that backed Reading Rainbow, and that was the biggest to date in terms of backer numbers (but not for much longer I suspect!)
$5 million is very achievable (127,591 backers), or even $6 million (153,110 backers), but $17 million? No way!
I think you guys have more comments than most Kickstarter have projects... Congrats on the well-deserved success!! I think a pretty cool stretch goal would be cards that pay homage to previous comics that you did, I.e. my favorite of all time: Tesla. What would it do for gameplay? Absolutely nothing, just a cool anecdote of sorts :)
@Patrick Thurston: They probably have their hands full with the game and the stretch goal we just reached, but I have to agree, exploding kitten t-shirts would be awesome!
Robert Stewart 2015-01-26T14:05:20-05:00
Congrats, gentlemen! I'm looking forward to the update and Mr. Oats' illustration announcing your success!
Eric 'Tchotchke' Aschner 2015-01-26T14:05:47-05:00
Well, the average probably will go up a little. Some people (like me) will almost certainly add on extra decks later. Some people only pledged a dollar to keep in the loop and will up it later on. I do agree $17M is out there, but $8M seems possible.
riftsinger 2015-01-26T14:06:12-05:00
wow i only looked here about 30mins ago and now 100,000 backers
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-01-26T14:06:39-05:00
@Eric A, thats my guess as well. Somewhere in the $8mil mark.
Jonny 2015-01-26T14:08:00-05:00
I was telling about this Project to all my co workers today. lol
John "Collar Stay" Kelly 2015-01-26T14:08:02-05:00
@John Foster - Who said anything about 17 mil?
Gerald Ealy 2015-01-26T14:08:35-05:00
Never underestimate the power of kittens and the Internet. If not t-shirts - then perhaps a nice 3d printed figure - Abercrab Lincoln would look awesome atop my monitor.
Ohhh ohhhh NOW all of you want t-shirts when I suggested it as a payable SG on Day 1! To you all I say: thhhbpppttt :-P
Seriously though adding a higher reward level with a t-shirt would not make things more difficult for them (as I've been saying all along,) as The Oatmeal already has a store that sells t-shirt. So all he would need to do is get the art-work to his current t-shirt supplier/producer and tell them the staggering number needed. Hell I think those of us wanting. T-shirt wouldn't even care if they shipped separately so that it would not affect game distribution.
But, I've only been saying that for a week now. *cough*
Hahahahha I'm just happy we hit our SG on Elan's birthday. Makes a nice present for him.
Damian Mills 2015-01-26T14:12:02-05:00
Hot damn, full decks.
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2015-01-26T14:12:31-05:00
T shirts should be sold at the exploding kittens Web site, not slowing down getting the game out to all the backers. Focus people.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-01-26T14:12:34-05:00
17mil is what kicktraq.com is projecting, exageratedly of course.
Well the Oatmeal already has a store front where he sells tee shirts with his comic artwork on them so I think that a Tee-Shirt addon would be easily doable.
My suggestion would be that they partner up with a printer your own tee shirt company and offer 4 or 5 different types of tee shirt prints that we can purchase as an add-on for say $15 or $20 we would then get a one time user discount code that we could use to pick the Tee-shirt that we want and order it.
this way the tee-shirt would not have any impact on the shipping deadline for our card game.
Katherine Profeta 2015-01-26T14:14:46-05:00
@Francesco Fantastic idea!! I would love a limited edition box that would with BOTH decks!
BruceP - The Chameleon 2015-01-26T14:15:12-05:00
That Kicktraq trend is always way off. Pay it no attention. No attention, I say! :)
Jonny 2015-01-26T14:15:19-05:00
Were is the update! i got to go up for work soon. Haha
Bryce Knorp 2015-01-26T14:15:39-05:00
I feel like we're more excited about this than they are
Gareth Evans 2015-01-26T14:15:42-05:00
I know they probably have all the cards worked out already but I would love it if there were a card that reflected the final backer number in some way.
@Eric B: They could even do it as a if you were a backer for this project, you get a code at the end, and it makes it a free shirt for you that is signed. One possible way to do it for a later date, while rewarding the 100k+ people who made the game a reality.
@Jonny I just had dinner and I'm watching thethe kitten show :)
Brett MacDonald 2015-01-26T14:17:40-05:00
Considering it's his birthday... I don't blame him if he takes a while to post an update :- )
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And for t-shirts... I think adding a whole new type of product would only make fulfillment harder. especially since it would take larger boxes... more international shipping headaches... etc. I think they should stick to just upgrades to this game (more cards... better components... mini themed expansions... etc).
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Keep up the great work Elan and happy birthday! I'm looking forward to see what you have in store for the next SG!
Congrats to everyone!
Happy Birthday, Elan. :)
NEXT SG PLZ!
Oh thank kittens...I have to go to a meeting at 2 pm and thought I might miss this momentous moment!
There we go :)
What's next? Exploding Kittens - The Movie!! I don,t care, MAKE IT HAPPEN!
woo!
Happy 100000th birthday, Elan!
Happy Birthday Elan!!!!
Congrats everyone! We did it! :D
Oh sure, get past 100k while I'm away from my phone getting my lunch. Be that way.
Good job everyone though. :P
Happy Birthday Elan!
ONE-HUNDO-THOUSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!!!!
Woot!!!
Amazing!
Various other kickstarters have used some kind of social media "push" website that sends out a ton of twits and posts to all the social media sites at a specific time and date ... can't remember what it was called, I do not use social media myself, maybe someone here knows what I am talking about and can suggest it ti the EK team?
HUGE. Now to 4M today.
Awesome!
HURRAY!!!! Awesome. Kersploosh~
Now the next stretch goals should be at $4,000,000 and 110k backers
And yes, Happy Birthday Elan.
100k! Can't wait for that update!
100K!!!!!!!
*confetti*
Woot!
Over 100K, woohoo! :D
Jesus Christ, 100k! I can't wait for this game
AWWWWW YISSSSSSSSSSSS!! :3
YES!
I tried to be the 100k, but I think I ended up being 100,003. Oh well (+-3) is good enough for me :)
Perhaps a canine cameo for the next stretch goal.
I love that 92K+ people picked the NSFW pack :)
OK, now only $80,000 to $4 million….
Give us the update!!!!!!! XD
Lets make holographic cards! :P
Okay Elan you owe us a new update :-) I want to see it change from Updates (5) to Updates (6)
Okay Update PleasE!!!!!!
By the power of Grayskull......
Gz guys, well deserved - you seem like genuinely nice people :)
WEEE DID ITTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i missed it becuase of work congratz guys!
I am proud to be backer 100, 028!
I love knowing that there are this many people out there with a warped sense of humour!
So how many people are willing to buy multiple decks to push to $4 million?
5818 backers to beat reading rainbow
OMG and @Elan Lee Happy Birthday! you must be having a very emotional time right now hahaha! ENJOY!
@Jim: Already did that when I saw it at 99k earlier. Definitely going to be giving a few decks away as gifts.
Congrats. Very excited
come on we are sitting on pins and needles waiting for the new update :-)
Wouldnt it be great to add 15 bucks and get a t shirt i would love a exploding cat tshirt any merch really it would be to die for
Just sittin' here waiting for the update! :P
Let's beat those Rainbow goodie two shoes!
I would buy a T-shirt or some other kind of merch, as long as it didn't delay the game.
YAAAAY!!! :D
234 backers in the last hour!
I would love a commemorative exploding kittens t-shirt, I would even pay more for it...it could highlight the milestones and records we have broken and will break :D
Sorry to disappoint, but as epic as this project is, there is no way in hell it's going to reach $17 million.
Current average amount pledged is $39.19 (as at 100,065 backers and 3,921,214 pledged).
Assuming that average rate continues (and it's unlikely to change by much), you'd need 433,81 backers to hit £17 million, that's more than 4 times the amount that backed Reading Rainbow, and that was the biggest to date in terms of backer numbers (but not for much longer I suspect!)
$5 million is very achievable (127,591 backers), or even $6 million (153,110 backers), but $17 million? No way!
At current average backer pledge value...
4,000,000: 102,074 backers
5,000,000: 127,593 backers
6,000,000: 153,112 backers
7,000,000: 178,630 backers
8,000,000: 204,149 backers
9,000,000: 229,667 backers
10,000,000: 255,186 backers
11,000,000: 280,704 backers
12,000,000: 306,223 backers
13,000,000: 331,742 backers
14,000,000: 357,260 backers
15,000,000: 382,779 backers
16,000,000: 408,297 backers
17,000,000: 433,816 backers
I think you guys have more comments than most Kickstarter have projects... Congrats on the well-deserved success!! I think a pretty cool stretch goal would be cards that pay homage to previous comics that you did, I.e. my favorite of all time: Tesla. What would it do for gameplay? Absolutely nothing, just a cool anecdote of sorts :)
Nay-Sayer!
@Patrick Thurston: They probably have their hands full with the game and the stretch goal we just reached, but I have to agree, exploding kitten t-shirts would be awesome!
Congrats, gentlemen! I'm looking forward to the update and Mr. Oats' illustration announcing your success!
Well, the average probably will go up a little. Some people (like me) will almost certainly add on extra decks later. Some people only pledged a dollar to keep in the loop and will up it later on. I do agree $17M is out there, but $8M seems possible.
wow i only looked here about 30mins ago and now 100,000 backers
@Eric A, thats my guess as well. Somewhere in the $8mil mark.
I was telling about this Project to all my co workers today. lol
@John Foster - Who said anything about 17 mil?
Never underestimate the power of kittens and the Internet. If not t-shirts - then perhaps a nice 3d printed figure - Abercrab Lincoln would look awesome atop my monitor.
Part of a stretch goal should be "...creators do a dance..."
I checked the campaign when I was explaining the project to my friends, it was at 99,993 backersbackers. 5 min later 100,039 backers!
@John Foster - Where did 17 million come from? I think the most funded kickstarted to date is ~$13.2 million.
Ohhh ohhhh NOW all of you want t-shirts when I suggested it as a payable SG on Day 1! To you all I say: thhhbpppttt :-P
Seriously though adding a higher reward level with a t-shirt would not make things more difficult for them (as I've been saying all along,) as The Oatmeal already has a store that sells t-shirt. So all he would need to do is get the art-work to his current t-shirt supplier/producer and tell them the staggering number needed. Hell I think those of us wanting. T-shirt wouldn't even care if they shipped separately so that it would not affect game distribution.
But, I've only been saying that for a week now. *cough*
Hahahahha I'm just happy we hit our SG on Elan's birthday. Makes a nice present for him.
Hot damn, full decks.
T shirts should be sold at the exploding kittens Web site, not slowing down getting the game out to all the backers. Focus people.
17mil is what kicktraq.com is projecting, exageratedly of course.
They were caught off guard for the update :)
Mass producing T-Shirts could get messy fast...
I think for the next stretch goal you should give us a limited edition deck box!!!
@ francesco that's what I'm talking about!
@Katherine. The $17M number is most likely coming from the Kicktraq projection.
http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/elanlee/exploding-kittens/#chart-exp-trend
I'd be cool with just a little sticker/decal.
Well the Oatmeal already has a store front where he sells tee shirts with his comic artwork on them so I think that a Tee-Shirt addon would be easily doable.
My suggestion would be that they partner up with a printer your own tee shirt company and offer 4 or 5 different types of tee shirt prints that we can purchase as an add-on for say $15 or $20 we would then get a one time user discount code that we could use to pick the Tee-shirt that we want and order it.
this way the tee-shirt would not have any impact on the shipping deadline for our card game.
@Francesco Fantastic idea!! I would love a limited edition box that would with BOTH decks!
That Kicktraq trend is always way off. Pay it no attention. No attention, I say! :)
Were is the update! i got to go up for work soon. Haha
I feel like we're more excited about this than they are
I know they probably have all the cards worked out already but I would love it if there were a card that reflected the final backer number in some way.
@Eric B: They could even do it as a if you were a backer for this project, you get a code at the end, and it makes it a free shirt for you that is signed. One possible way to do it for a later date, while rewarding the 100k+ people who made the game a reality.
the update will likely be posted within the next 2 hours. I am hoping for sooner rather than later.
I honestly don't see a model that will accurately forcast this monster of a ks. Still guessing it tops around 8mil!
@Jonny I just had dinner and I'm watching thethe kitten show :)
Considering it's his birthday... I don't blame him if he takes a while to post an update :- )
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And for t-shirts... I think adding a whole new type of product would only make fulfillment harder. especially since it would take larger boxes... more international shipping headaches... etc. I think they should stick to just upgrades to this game (more cards... better components... mini themed expansions... etc).
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Keep up the great work Elan and happy birthday! I'm looking forward to see what you have in store for the next SG!
Better be an awesome update art.
Fuck yeah! 100000! Awesome, people!
Well currently 4th highest game ever, behind a game console and two computer games
@Scott: That in and of itself is amazing given that this is a card game.
It would be awesome if the cards were made of PVC plastic like the Copag cards
$100KKKKKKKKKKKKKK
History made!
@Tsveta Koleva. But im so excited! :P
9th overall and that will change soon
@owen. Just so long as anything doest delay us getting our games, I'm cool with whatever.