lol, these totally won't be shipping in July. I'm ok for waiting for this though.
Steve Taylor 2015-01-29T06:17:06-05:00
News reporters don't look like that over here in the UK!!
Steve Taylor 2015-01-29T06:20:11-05:00
Unless they do sports
Sidney Blumenthal 2015-01-29T07:01:51-05:00
@dns12999 In mother Russia you don't blow up kittens, kittens blow up you!
dns12999 2015-01-29T07:02:59-05:00
@Steve most of our reporters/anchors in the US are "good looking".
dns12999 2015-01-29T07:04:03-05:00
@Sidney lol good thing I'm not in Russia!
dns12999 2015-01-29T07:07:00-05:00
I really hope we get some kind of update other than that news clip with Elan. Only cause we were promised. I'd really like some more info on mechanics. Specifically the cat cards and how they work by themselves and combined. None of the cat cards shown in the videos have any info on them.
Michael Botterill 2015-01-29T07:20:30-05:00
Any idea if this will be EU friendly yet?
Devin Doewie Leysen 2015-01-29T07:26:06-05:00
@michael , since they hit the stretch that the NSFW is a full game, I feel it's reasonably EU friendly, with shipping (for my country), it was 50 dollars for 2 full games, that's about 44 euro, I personally have payed a lot more money for card games in the past
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2015-01-29T07:36:04-05:00
Good morning backers!!! I see Elan did an interview, but still no update. Maybe we'll get an extra updatentoday.
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2015-01-29T07:36:26-05:00
*update today
Antonio 2015-01-29T07:58:51-05:00
It never ceases to amaze me seeing that the numbers are still (and steadily) growing! This is crazy!
Let's hope it won't grow to be too much to handle XD
Oliver Foggin 2015-01-29T08:00:48-05:00
LOL @Antonio I think it's too late for that.
Jared Brown 2015-01-29T08:22:07-05:00
Im wondering what will happen with this becomes a staff pick...
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2015-01-29T08:28:58-05:00
They should make it a staff pick. Since KS gets 5% of sales, it would make sense that they do it. Everyone loves more money!!
Devin Doewie Leysen 2015-01-29T08:31:14-05:00
@ Antonio, Yeah, it's definitely too much already, I even think they purposely don't release 2nd batches of the collectors deck and the deck of legends, just because they know they would get a 20000 to 30000 dollar bump in a matter of minutes
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-01-29T08:35:43-05:00
And trinkets, they definitely need to add some trinkets! (EU friendly of course)
Chris "The Historian" Loth 2015-01-29T08:37:36-05:00
Fruit cake trinkets?
Devin Doewie Leysen 2015-01-29T08:39:59-05:00
I think the yet to be revealed surprise in the box , definitely is going to be a trinket, because we need trinkets
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2015-01-29T08:42:47-05:00
Sleeved,non EU friendly,trinkets and tins,potato salad covered morning to @Rod and @ChrisL.
After reading the comets from last night, we are at 1,000,005!
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2015-01-29T08:43:26-05:00
*comments
It starts early...
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-01-29T08:48:36-05:00
and an EU friendly, free international shipping morning to you all! May your day be full of trinkets and tin cases!
Mike Kabala 2015-01-29T08:49:12-05:00
FYI, the new story did not appear on Fox News. It was done by a local Fox affiliate in LA. (Of course, Fox News bashers won't care about the facts.)
Well, making them out of plastic makes them less environmentally friendly, that could cost us big time profits. They should be EU friendly though if we stick to earth nuggets, Ireland is right there after all.
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2015-01-29T09:05:37-05:00
if elan,shane,or theoatmeal have been reading the comments section since yesterday, they have to be thinking..... what the hell is wrong with these guys! All they do is sit around making jokes about sleeves,potato salad, EU friendly shipping, tins,trinkets,egg salad, and FRUITCAKE!!?!?!
@Eric B
Are you on a Lollipop-powered device by any chance?
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-01-29T09:22:26-05:00
@Chris L, Shhh! The first rule of the double secret, sleeved, EU friendly, trinket update is that you don't talk about the double secret, sleeved, EU friendly, trinket update!
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2015-01-29T09:31:54-05:00
*Tsveta, sorry
Joe 2015-01-29T09:32:01-05:00
My first as well. I'm a little curious if Kickstarter is able to parse that sort of info. It would be nice info to have available for future projects. Elan Matt and Shane seemed to have stumbled on a pretty good formula for support.
Bob "Powers of Tesla" Lindley 2015-01-29T09:32:32-05:00
Can anyone explain what EU friendly means? IF it isn't friendly is it automatically EU hostile? EU ambivalent?
Eric 'Tchotchke' Aschner 2015-01-29T09:33:06-05:00
Well, already having a fairly large cult following surely didn't hurt.
@Rod: It will be a potatten, it will be made of potato, and of course it will be sleeved.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-01-29T09:37:10-05:00
@Evan, what quality of potatoe will it be though, can it be made of plastic? Do I get any trinkets with it?
Joe 2015-01-29T09:37:18-05:00
@ Eric
Of course that very thing is implied but is it solely that or does it have to do with the ease of backer commitment as well. 20-35 bucks seems a reasonable sum.
JusticeBolt 2015-01-29T09:38:37-05:00
I hope we get an update today and not just a 'thank you guys'. I know there is still 21 days to go but at this point it's not much to ask questions about gameplay.I want to know what those cat cards do when played as multiples.
Bob "Powers of Tesla" Lindley 2015-01-29T09:39:03-05:00
@Joe: I think it also has to do with the name of the game. Anything else probably wouldn't have had as much of an impact. The names behind it help too.
Eric 'Tchotchke' Aschner 2015-01-29T09:40:10-05:00
Well, I'm sure it's a combination of things. Oatmeal brings in lots of eyes that would have never been here. The simplified KS makes it easy for new backers to feel comfortable and not super overwhelmed with hitting 30 markers. It's cheap (in the US at least). It's cute.
Plus, once that started rolling it started making news outlets, which just further adds gas to the fire. The bigger it gets, the more coverage, so the bigger it gets.
So, really a great combination of cheap / simple / coverage.
Karl Hjalmarsson 2015-01-29T09:40:40-05:00
Thank you @Eric I think the cards looks amazing and for me it seems that the cards will be pretty durable as well.
Joe 2015-01-29T09:41:01-05:00
Heck maybe it's simply cats. Matt eluded to this phenomenon in a least one of his comics.
How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
Eric 'Tchotchke' Aschner 2015-01-29T09:41:40-05:00
Well, I mean... yeah, cats accounts for at least $3M, but certainly not ALL of it. ;)
Eric 'Tchotchke' Aschner 2015-01-29T09:43:05-05:00
I mean, let's be honest, if one of us put out the EXACT same game, same video, same tiers, same everything. We'd probably have a very successful KS. We might even get to $50K. Throw in some well known names (with great internet cred) and it shoots up really fast, which just generates more attention.
Joe 2015-01-29T09:43:20-05:00
@Eric Too Funny
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2015-01-29T09:44:05-05:00
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2015-01-29T09:48:34-05:00
We talking red, russet, white,yellow, from Idaho, Russia..details, I need DETAILS!!!
Eric 'Tchotchke' Aschner 2015-01-29T09:48:49-05:00
I mean, I hate to be all cynical on it, but name recognition and appearance of validity from others plays a very strong bond with what we consider to be good.
People regularly pay hundreds of dollars to see this guy in concert. Much of that is not because he's good (he is) but because he's world renowned and it's in a big fancy concert hall and that's what tickets cost. Same guy plays in a subway for tips? He must suck!
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2015-01-29T09:50:20-05:00
Potatten, is that German?
Chris "The Historian" Loth 2015-01-29T09:51:18-05:00
@Eric B, I'm with you, I need details on the potattens composition. I also need to know how they intend to avoid the potatoes getting blacked due to oxidation. Will the sleeves be hermetically sealled? If so, what impact will that have on the number of points of articulation?
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2015-01-29T09:53:30-05:00
Dice Tesla invent the Potatten Before it was mentioned here? I bet he did.
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2015-01-29T09:54:05-05:00
@Eric B: There will be different options each backer can pick for the types of potato they will receive. Higher backer levels net more types of potato.
Potatten recipe, guys. Water-proof, worldwide-friendly and country-unique. Make your own now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-01-29T09:57:36-05:00
@Tsveta, that recipie was supposed to be a sg! Now we're going to have to offer tins that will hold the sleeved potatten's and thier associated EU friendly trinkets!
Joe 2015-01-29T09:57:50-05:00
@ Eric Along those same lines then, if Elon Musk had a Kickstarter project to help fund his crazy (not-so-crazy) low cost space internet idea, would he get equally crazy numbers of backers?
lol, these totally won't be shipping in July. I'm ok for waiting for this though.
News reporters don't look like that over here in the UK!!
Unless they do sports
@dns12999 In mother Russia you don't blow up kittens, kittens blow up you!
@Steve most of our reporters/anchors in the US are "good looking".
@Sidney lol good thing I'm not in Russia!
I really hope we get some kind of update other than that news clip with Elan. Only cause we were promised. I'd really like some more info on mechanics. Specifically the cat cards and how they work by themselves and combined. None of the cat cards shown in the videos have any info on them.
Any idea if this will be EU friendly yet?
@michael , since they hit the stretch that the NSFW is a full game, I feel it's reasonably EU friendly, with shipping (for my country), it was 50 dollars for 2 full games, that's about 44 euro, I personally have payed a lot more money for card games in the past
Good morning backers!!! I see Elan did an interview, but still no update. Maybe we'll get an extra updatentoday.
*update today
It never ceases to amaze me seeing that the numbers are still (and steadily) growing! This is crazy!
Let's hope it won't grow to be too much to handle XD
LOL @Antonio I think it's too late for that.
Im wondering what will happen with this becomes a staff pick...
They should make it a staff pick. Since KS gets 5% of sales, it would make sense that they do it. Everyone loves more money!!
@ Antonio, Yeah, it's definitely too much already, I even think they purposely don't release 2nd batches of the collectors deck and the deck of legends, just because they know they would get a 20000 to 30000 dollar bump in a matter of minutes
And trinkets, they definitely need to add some trinkets! (EU friendly of course)
Fruit cake trinkets?
I think the yet to be revealed surprise in the box , definitely is going to be a trinket, because we need trinkets
Sleeved,non EU friendly,trinkets and tins,potato salad covered morning to @Rod and @ChrisL.
After reading the comets from last night, we are at 1,000,005!
*comments
It starts early...
and an EU friendly, free international shipping morning to you all! May your day be full of trinkets and tin cases!
FYI, the new story did not appear on Fox News. It was done by a local Fox affiliate in LA. (Of course, Fox News bashers won't care about the facts.)
Have we talked about personalizable potato kittens yet? If not let us get on that, I would like one.
Like a Mr potato head, but with kittens?..........go on, I'm listening.
Exactly! I saw it on the internet, and I want to make it happen. Where there is a will, there is a way. http://www.serenitynowblog.com/2012/04/veggie-pets-kitty-cat-potatoes.html
Only if they make sleeves to protect my KittenPotato
Agreed, that is a necessity.
They look too cute to eat.
@Eric B, you beat me to it! Will these potattens be EU friendly?
@Rod lol, nice!
Also, what quality will they be? Can we get them made out of plastic?
Well, making them out of plastic makes them less environmentally friendly, that could cost us big time profits. They should be EU friendly though if we stick to earth nuggets, Ireland is right there after all.
if elan,shane,or theoatmeal have been reading the comments section since yesterday, they have to be thinking..... what the hell is wrong with these guys! All they do is sit around making jokes about sleeves,potato salad, EU friendly shipping, tins,trinkets,egg salad, and FRUITCAKE!!?!?!
Well, I got bored waiting for the update: It was only a matter of time before I came up with the brilliant idea to combine kittens and potatoes.
I just read that Potattens comment, chuckled, and got a weird look from the bus driver.
Why are we not funding this?
@Owen: That's what I'm saying, this needs to happen.
Will there be updates?
Judging by the video it's pretty crappy quality. Of course they are demos now.
Yes, there will be updates! Fully backed gets the backer free carrot noses!
No plastic cards pls!!!
There will be no plastic cards in the potato kitten KS! That would be silly...
Sorry, but I will decline. I'm not big on updates. :-P
@Eric B, @Rod, morning guys. I heard a rumor that the trinkets will be sleeved and EU friendly... But only if we meet the double secret SG.
@Eric B
Are you on a Lollipop-powered device by any chance?
@Chris L, Shhh! The first rule of the double secret, sleeved, EU friendly, trinket update is that you don't talk about the double secret, sleeved, EU friendly, trinket update!
@Chris: I heard there was also a hidden triple secret SG that gets all backers an actual kitten.
That could just be a rumor though...
@Evan, is it made out of potatoe?
I wonder how many first time backers came out to support this project...
@Joe, I'm thinking lots, many of the profiles I've taken a look at in the last few days only had this project.
Im one of them @Joe :D
@Joe, I'm also one of them but I've funded on some of the other sites.
@Evan, the kitten better be sleeved!
I only want one if its a potatten!
@Joe, I too am backing my first project.
@Tvesta I am powered by sleep, Brandy old fashioneds, and pizza.
And EU friendly. Can't forget EU friendly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Just pour into a kitteh shape. Et Voilà! Bio-degradable plastic Potatten.
*Tsveta, sorry
My first as well. I'm a little curious if Kickstarter is able to parse that sort of info. It would be nice info to have available for future projects. Elan Matt and Shane seemed to have stumbled on a pretty good formula for support.
Can anyone explain what EU friendly means? IF it isn't friendly is it automatically EU hostile? EU ambivalent?
Well, already having a fairly large cult following surely didn't hurt.
@Eric I'm asking because of the misspellings with n instead of space that I get on my tab :)
They want free/cheap shipping to the EU because OMG, they're profitting $4M EACH off this!!
Were there an new release of some videos about the card deck? Becouse I can't find them.
@ Eric A. , and kittens offcourse , never underestimate the power of cats on the internet
Someone posted a link to the LA Fox affiliate which had a 2 minute (and sorta crummy) public interest story. It's probably 50-70 below.
@Rod: It will be a potatten, it will be made of potato, and of course it will be sleeved.
@Evan, what quality of potatoe will it be though, can it be made of plastic? Do I get any trinkets with it?
@ Eric
Of course that very thing is implied but is it solely that or does it have to do with the ease of backer commitment as well. 20-35 bucks seems a reasonable sum.
I hope we get an update today and not just a 'thank you guys'. I know there is still 21 days to go but at this point it's not much to ask questions about gameplay.I want to know what those cat cards do when played as multiples.
My first KS as well. And here's the story link...
http://www.myfoxla.com/clip/11080688/exploding-kittens
@Joe: I think it also has to do with the name of the game. Anything else probably wouldn't have had as much of an impact. The names behind it help too.
Well, I'm sure it's a combination of things. Oatmeal brings in lots of eyes that would have never been here. The simplified KS makes it easy for new backers to feel comfortable and not super overwhelmed with hitting 30 markers. It's cheap (in the US at least). It's cute.
Plus, once that started rolling it started making news outlets, which just further adds gas to the fire. The bigger it gets, the more coverage, so the bigger it gets.
So, really a great combination of cheap / simple / coverage.
Thank you @Eric I think the cards looks amazing and for me it seems that the cards will be pretty durable as well.
Heck maybe it's simply cats. Matt eluded to this phenomenon in a least one of his comics.
How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
Well, I mean... yeah, cats accounts for at least $3M, but certainly not ALL of it. ;)
I mean, let's be honest, if one of us put out the EXACT same game, same video, same tiers, same everything. We'd probably have a very successful KS. We might even get to $50K. Throw in some well known names (with great internet cred) and it shoots up really fast, which just generates more attention.
@Eric Too Funny
@Tsveta I get it, lol
@Rod: Plastic will be an add-on upgrade option.
And only the best quality potatoes will be used obviously.
what plastic card is an add-on? Or is just a assumption?
Nervermind -_-
@JustiveBolt: Not cards, Potattens.
We talking red, russet, white,yellow, from Idaho, Russia..details, I need DETAILS!!!
I mean, I hate to be all cynical on it, but name recognition and appearance of validity from others plays a very strong bond with what we consider to be good.
People regularly pay hundreds of dollars to see this guy in concert. Much of that is not because he's good (he is) but because he's world renowned and it's in a big fancy concert hall and that's what tickets cost. Same guy plays in a subway for tips? He must suck!
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Potatten, is that German?
@Eric B, I'm with you, I need details on the potattens composition. I also need to know how they intend to avoid the potatoes getting blacked due to oxidation. Will the sleeves be hermetically sealled? If so, what impact will that have on the number of points of articulation?
Dice Tesla invent the Potatten Before it was mentioned here? I bet he did.
And if he did, potatten would be serbian then?
@Eric B: There will be different options each backer can pick for the types of potato they will receive. Higher backer levels net more types of potato.
That Tesla... stealling all my ideas before I have a chance to come up with them... story of my life. But I won't let that stop me! I must push on!
Potatten recipe, guys. Water-proof, worldwide-friendly and country-unique. Make your own now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
@Tsveta, that recipie was supposed to be a sg! Now we're going to have to offer tins that will hold the sleeved potatten's and thier associated EU friendly trinkets!
@ Eric Along those same lines then, if Elon Musk had a Kickstarter project to help fund his crazy (not-so-crazy) low cost space internet idea, would he get equally crazy numbers of backers?
http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/11/7192173/satellite-elon-musk-spacex
I would totally back this BTW
I'm gonna try that actually someday.
@Joe
Yeah, probably. He's got panache. If he did it under the name "NebraskaBob" and never told anyone, he'd get $0 in funding.
@Shane @ Matt
Maybe you could float the idea to Elon. Bolster some cred for the Tesla museum too.
Yes, talk to Elon.
Kittens INNN SPAAAACCEEE!
Thanks a lot, @EricA.... now I have to change all of my passwords from NebraskaBob to something else!!!