In Conversation with Abhi from Visai Games

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Thank you all for tuning into our first ever podcast. This is our attempt at archiving the history of game development of Indian creators, through their own stories and voice. We hope you find it interesting and engaging. If you have any thoughts and suggestions, please come by our discord and have a chat!

On this episode, we talk to Abhi from Visai games, who is creating an amazing narrative cooking game where you play as an Indian immigrant mom, who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s.

People in the podcast

Abhi - https://twitter.com/brownmoney__

Shagun Shah - https://twitter.com/ShagunShah

Yadu Rajiv - https://twitter.com/yadurajiv

Notes from the podcast

Venba - http://venbagame.com/

Unity - https://unity.com/

Yarn Spinner - https://yarnspinner.dev/

Night in the Woods - http://www.nightinthewoods.com/

Idli - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idli

Puttu - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puttu

Biriyani - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biryani

Cooking Mama - http://www.cookingmama.com/

Cook, Serve, Delicious - https://www.cookservedelicious.com

Overcooked - http://www.ghosttowngames.com/

Porotta - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parotta

Tirukkuṟaḷ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirukku%E1%B9%9Fa%E1%B8%B7

Lungi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lungi

Full Transcript

Yadu Rajiv 0:07

Hello, and thank you for tuning in to the game dev dot in podcast. In this episode Yadu and Shagun catch up with Abhi from Visai games, to talk about his roots and the secret spice behind his up and coming narrative cooking game, Venba.

My first question was basically going to ask you what your last name was, but that should be fine, because I couldn't find your name anywhere so, but it doesn't matter.

Abhi 0:36

Maybe I know we just started recording, but maybe you can cut this part out. But yeah. The reason I hide it is I had people reach out to me through channels that I didn't expect them to reach out. And I'm just that just struck me a little, like, you know, I'm very private that way. So, people reaching out to me like, like, Instagram, Twitter is fine. But if they're finding my LinkedIn, I feel like you know what I mean?

Yadu Rajiv 1:05

That is what I was trying to find.

Abhi 1:11

I don't mind sharing it with you. But like, if it's random people that are messaging again. So that started happening. So is that okay, I need to hide my last name and stuff like that. I'm glad it works. So..

Yadu Rajiv 1:22

Yeah, yeah. So it was