From the creator of The Oatmeal, this new project is the first time Netflix is launching a mobile game and television series from the same franchise—in this case, the Exploding Kittens card game. Mike Judge (Office Space, Beavis and Butthead) and Greg Daniels (The Office, Parks and Rec) are executive producing, and the show has an impressive cast lined up.
That cast includes Tom Ellis (Lucifer), Abraham Lim (Clickbait, The Boys), Lucy Liu (Shazam, Elementary), Ally Maki (Wrecked, Toy Story 4), Mark Proksch (What We Do In The Shadows, Better Call Saul) and Sasheer Zamata (Woke, Home Economics).
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The premise of the series deals with the eternal conflict between heaven and hell when God and the Devil are sent to Earth… in the bodies of chunky cats. No news yet on who on the cast will be taking which parts, but I do hope that Tom Ellis, who played the Devil on Lucifer, reprises the demonic role in feline form.
“Netflix is the only service that could bring Exploding Kittens to life in both a series and a game,” Matthew Inman, Exploding Kittens Chief Creative Officer and Creator of The Oatmeal, said in a statement. “We actually launched Exploding Kittens on Kickstarter as a weekend project, but our community has been the heart and soul of the company over the past six years. The new series and game will give our fans new ways to connect and interact with the franchise.”
Inman along with co-writer Shane Kosakowski are showrunners for the series. Exploding Kittens—The Game is a digital version of the classic card game with two new cards included: Radar, which reveals to players the position of the Exploding Kitten closest to the top of the card deck, and Flip Flop, which reverses the order of the cards in the deck.
The game has single and multiplayer options and future versions of the game will play off themes seen in the show. It will be available to Netflix subscribers without additional fees or in-app purchases.
The Exploding Kittens mobile game comes out this May and the animated series will drop on Netflix sometime in 2023.
As they say, the golden age of SF was fourteen, and this is pretty much what I read at the time. It’s so long ago now, but I think that Chronicles was my gateway series to fantasy… probably alongside Eddings as well I think.
And gods was Rose of the Prophet something…to me, that was certainly their best series. Death Gate just went weird at the end, and Darksword was angst-y to the extreme. Rose of the Prophet however had some interesting world-building, and actually had diverse protagonists. As a teenager in Malaysia, there was only so much reading about various eurocentric characters (even in a world with dragons!) that I could take.
I find it oddly fitting that the killing of characters is what made their books good.
For those who don’t know, GEN CON every year. the Hickmans host the Killer breakfast. The ultimate goal is to have fun, and kill everyone who apears on stage over the course of 2 hours (easily 100 people). They play GM’s gone wild, and everyone elses goal is to survive a round or two with all the hilarious events happeneing around them. The event has becoe a staple at Gen Con and i hope it remains so for years to come.
As a kid in small town america, finding the Dragonlance novels for sale at my local library was a great moment, I read the first copies I had till the pages fell out
There’s a bittersweetness to knowing that my experience of discovering the Dragonlance Chronicles as a young kid, and it helping to launch me into reading, gaming, then fiction writing and game writing professionally. So yeah, I’m with you. I was fond of Sturm from the start, but I will agree that his arch was exactly as long as it needed to be.
Essentially, Dragonlance was my Harry Potter.
This was also my gateway series to fantasy. Sturm’s death was definitely a great one, but it didn’t affect me nearly as much as Flint’s death, which made me cry.
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Essentially, Dragonlance was my Harry Potter.
Hear hear.
I enjoyed the Death Gate cycle for Zifnab alone. If ever a character deserved to NOT be confined to a single trilogy.
And Sturm’s death, while I wasn’t a fan of his character(on a recent reread he REALLY bugged me), really hit me profoundly. At this point in my reading, never had a major character DIED like that. At the hands of another major character, no less. It really raised the stakes of the story.
A couple of interesting tidbits, from a behind the scenes book the friend who introduced me to these books had.
-Sturm was slated for death from the start.
-The effort to conceal the identity of the Blue Dragonlord was so in depth, they put a man’s figure on the cover of the first edition.
I loved loved loved Star of the Guardians. So what if it was a Star Wars ripoff? It was a better Star Wars ripoff that any Star Wars book I tried. And it became something more in the end, with two of the most memorable characters I’d ever read. And yeah, they died, most magnificently.
I reread the original trilogy recently (first time in many years) and the nostalgia, it runs strong although I certainly can see the imperfections. I’ll have to dive into Legends in the not-too-distant future.
I did like the first four Death Gate books, at least — after that it started to get a bit weird. And I actually like Starshield — the idea, if not the execution.
It’s amazing how fast it took off — I remember in the early 1990s going into bookstores and seeing an entire rack of nothing but Dragonlance.
Gah! Double post! OK, so I’ll change it to say: I remember when it all first began — there was Gary Gygax’ Saga of Old City, Douglas Niles’ Darkwalker on Moonshae and Weis & Hickman’s Dragons of Autumn Twilight (not necessarily in that order). Three surprisingly different takes on RPG tie-in fiction.
It’s great to see a post giving some love to Weis and Hickman. I often see their names associated with hack-fantasy. I think they deserve much more credit than that.
I wish someone would give some similiar love to R. A. Salvatore. I think his fantasy writing is really good, especially his description of battle scenes.