Abhi (Venba) on How Food Brings Family Together and Going All in On Game Development

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Abhi is a Game Designer and Programmer working on his new narrative cooking game, Venba. Together with his Sam Elkana, the Art Director for the game, the two head Visai Studios, based in Toronto-based.

Venba is a narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian immigrant mom, who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Players will cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations and explore in this story about family, love, loss and more.

We talked with Abhi about the creation of the game, the importance of cooking in his life today, and how food connected his family together even during hard times. This is a conversation about what it means to follow your dreams, and forge a path for them no matter what it takes.

Hosted by Phillip Russell and Ben Thorp

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