Abhijeeth from Visai games joins us on this episode of the podcast to talk about about their upcoming game - Venba - a narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom, who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s.

Wishlist Venba On Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491670/Venba/

Website - https://venbagame.com/

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:06 - Visai Games: the team behind it

00:01:58 - The story before making Venba

00:03:04 - What does Venba mean?

00:04:14 - Why make a game about Indian cuisine?

00:05:13 - Focus on game mechanic or narrative?

00:06:08 - Is the game's story autobiographical?

00:08:01 - On the topic of immigration

00:09:51 - Moving to Canada, and introduction to gaming

00:11:34 - Breaking into the gaming industry

00:16:14 - A unique artstyle and the artist Sam Elkana

00:19:33 - What games do you love? Lucas Pope, Outer Wilds and Shadow of the Colossus

00:24:51 - Expectations behind making Venba

00:29:27 - Tamil cuisine and the recipes in Venba

00:31:47 - A release date, progress and milestones, chances of a demo

00:33:40 - The journey of making an indie game and the impact of the pandemic

00:37:28 - The roadblocks for game development in India

00:40:57 - Favourite Indian dish and can you cook it?

00:42:40 - Movies!

00:44:28 - The question we dodged: what games we love and play!

00:44:45 - Dyson Sphere Program

00:47:00 - Half-Life

00:48:00 - Nuts

00:48:40 - Diablo II, Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, Greedfall, Control

00:49:36 - Why does Ayush not like Shadow of the Colossus?

00:51:50 - Why does Abhijeeth love it? Artificial loneliness and the gamut of emotions

00:53:58 - Manas makes his case for the game

00:55:47 - Spoilers for a game from 2005

00:56:42 - Outro

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