Elan Lee
Elan Lee is an American game designer and the Chief Executive Officer of Exploding Kittens, Inc. His background includes serving as a lead game designer for the original Xbox at Microsoft and as chief design officer for Xbox Entertainment Studios. He is best known for co-creating the card game Exploding Kittens with Matthew Inman and for his work developing alternate reality games.
“He had glasses that are just two lenses... he was on his hands and knees... he made in his pocket an empty deck that he could just take a Sharpie and make a game up on the spot. That's kind of what he was doing for us... he was prototyping on us... My first job was Xbox. Microsoft handed me a bunch of money and a team. And it was like, designed a competitor to the PlayStation. So that's the first prototype Xbox we ever made.”
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