What is the most surprising challenge you have to face operating with such a high number of backers? You always have LOTS of backers on your campaign. It’s an incredibly frustrating situation, and I wish we had built our community on a platform that advocated net neutrality within their own network. The reality is that Facebook will not allow our posts to be delivered to our followers unless we pay them hundreds of thousands of dollars per post. Followers that expect to receive anything we post to their feeds.

Between The Oatmeal and Exploding Kittens, we have more than 4 million Facebook followers. I wish I understood the extent to which Facebook would throttle our posting. If there was one thing you wish you knew before you launched TTB, what would it be?

It’s a simple, fun game that adds a bit of physicality to game night, and I couldn’t be more proud of it. It’s what happens when you mix a card game with Dodgeball and allows players to have all the fun of a party game while throwing, ducking, and dodging airborne squishy burritos. Throw Throw Burrito is the next step in that process. For the last five years, I’ve been building things that draw people away from their screens and towards each other. When I resigned, I wanted to try building the opposite. Most of my career was spent building digital games (I was the Chief Design Officer for the Xbox) but I eventually found that the games I was creating were too isolating and lonely. My name is Elan Lee, and I’m the co-creator of Throw Throw Burrito and Exploding Kittens. Tell us a bit about yourself and Throw Throw Burrito.

Burrito board game