Order Up!

Overview

Order Up! is a fast card game where players race to complete orders before the deck runs out. Players pass ingredient cards around the table to match orders in the center—Spoons-like tension with a chef theme and a physical bell.

Duties

• Contributed to core loop design and rules clarity across three weekly iterations
• Helped design readable ingredient and order cards in Canva
• Playtested and revised rules to reduce dominant strategies that blocked other players

Gallery

Order Up! rules

First iteration using index cards

Updated Canva card designs

Final in-class playtest

Process

CTIN 488 final project with a three-week schedule and one-week iteration cadence.

Week 1 — Brainstorm. We wanted a quick, fun game like Spoons, chose a chef theme, and added a bell for table presence. First prototype used index cards.

Week 2 — Readability. Playtests showed index cards were hard to parse at speed; we redesigned in Canva for fast recognition while passing cards.

Week 3 — Rules and polish. We moved rules from text-heavy docs to diagram-first layouts, adjusted rules that let one playstyle shut others out, and submitted for a near-perfect score.