Rival restaurants Board Game
The board game Rival Restaurants and its expansions, Back for Seconds and SPORKS Out, began as a fun project between five friends (later known as Gap Closer Games). Over the years, our games have been backed by more than 17,000 fans across three campaigns, raising over $1M on Kickstarter.
As first-time creators, we learned every aspect of building a board game from the ground up—iterating the design through countless convention play-tests, working closely with factories, navigating manufacturing and shipping logistics, and understanding how to stay cost-efficient without sacrificing quality.
I handled all artwork, graphic design, and dimensional layout for the project, including assets for the Kickstarter campaigns, the instructional video, the companion timer app, and the production-ready files needed for manufacturing to deliver a polished final product to our backers.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gapclosergames/rival-restaurants-sporks-out
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gapclosergames/rival-restaurants-back-for-seconds
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gapclosergames/rival-restaurants
How to Play Rival Restaurants
Rival Restaurants also has 3 modes of learning how to play - the instruction rulebook, the quick start guide, and also this instructional video I created using After Effects.