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Elan Lee was born on 26 January, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, U.S., is an American game designer. Discover Elan Lee's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 49 years old?

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Occupation Game Designer
Age 49 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 26 January 1975
Birthday 26 January
Birthplace Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Elan Lee is an American game designer, developer, and creator.

He has designed games for the Xbox; helped create the world’s first Alternate Reality Games; and with Matthew Inman created the card game Exploding Kittens, whose Kickstarter campaign was the most-backed of its day.

2003

In 2003, he co-founded 42 Entertainment, whose alternate reality games include I Love Bees to promote the Xbox game Halo 2 and Year Zero to promote the Nine Inch Nails album Year Zero.

He and Dawne Weisman later co-founded EDOC Laundry to produce ARGs using clothes as the primary platform.

Consumers deciphered codes hidden within garments and entered the results into the game's main website to reveal pieces of a distributed story.

2005

In 2005, I Love Bees won an Innovation Award from IGDA, and a Webby Award.

2007

In 2007, Lee founded Fourth Wall Studios to create entertainment experiences.

Lee developed a new form of interactive programming that engaged audiences across multiple platforms via new technology he created.

Projects such as the Emmy Award-winning series “Dirty Work” brought viewers into the show with interactive elements such as “integrated phone calls, texts and emails” as part of the viewing experience.

2008

In 2008, Year Zero won the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Grand Prix Award for "Viral Marketing" and a Silver Award for "Integrated Campaign".

The game also won a bronze Clio Award, and two Webbys: Peoples Voice Award (Branded Content) and Peoples Voice Award (Integrated Campaigns).

2012

In 2012, Lee won a Creative Arts Emmy for Original Interactive Programming for the web series Dirty Work.

The same year he won the Trailblazer Award from IndieCade.

In March 2022, The Beast received a Legacy Peabody Award for Interactive Journalism.

2013

Lee returned to Microsoft as the Chief Design Officer for Xbox Entertainment Studios soon after the launch of the Xbox One game console in 2013.

2014

By 2014, Lee had left Microsoft to build a new technology-based TV studio; he raised about $5 million, assembled a team, and built a prototype.

2015

He and Inman founded the Exploding Kittens company in 2015.

Lee began his career as a character designer at Industrial Light and Magic, where he worked on several movies, including the computer special effects for Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.

Lee was then hired by Microsoft Game Studios as Lead Game Designer, designing and directing games for PC and Xbox.

While working for Microsoft, he was the Executive Producer and Lead Designer for The Beast, one of the world’s first Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) used to promoted the Steven Spielberg film A.I. Artificial Intelligence.

Lee has co-founded several gaming start-ups.

In 2015, Lee, Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal), and Shane Small created the card game Exploding Kittens.

Originally called Bomb Squad, it became the most-backed campaign on Kickstarter at the time, raising $8.78 million from 219,382 backers.

“When Exploding Kittens launched, I thought it would be a side project on the weekend.

It’s so weird when the side project dwarfs the scope and scale of the main project.

And so I decided to return the money I raised [$5 million for the "main" project, a "technology-based TV studio"].

I realized that if I didn’t turn all my attention to this, it would become the biggest regret of my life.”

2017

Later in the year, Lee and Inman founded Exploding Kittens Inc. The company released its second tabletop game, Bears vs. Babies, in 2017, after raising more than $3 million from 85,000 Kickstarter backers.

2018

In 2018, the company released You’ve Got Crabs; in 2019, it released Throw Throw Burrito after another Kickstarter campaign and On a Scale of One to T-Rex exclusively on Amazon.

2019

In October 2019, the American businessman and investor Peter Chernin, CEO of The Chernin Group, invested $30 million for a minority stake in Exploding Kittens Inc. Inman said the company planned to use the funds to mount a live gaming convention, Burning Cat, inspired by the Burning Man festival; hire more artists; and produce three and five new games a year.

With Microsoft:

With 42 Entertainment:

Lee and his projects have won several industry awards for both design and marketing.