In Conversation with Abhi from Visai Games
Listen on Apple Podcast | Listen on Spotify | Listen on PocketCasts | Listen on Amazon Music | RSS Feed 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 kind of difficult. So I mean, basically, just kind of get an idea of what what like, like, maybe we can just get into it. So how did you get into games? How did this happen? Abhi 1:38 Yeah, um, yeah. So I my parents brought home, the knock off console back home when I was in Chennai, it was called The Terminator, the black with the blue buttons, I'm sure all of you know, I played the crap out of that system. I think it was like 10 games for 999 there was like 999 games, but it was the same 10 game games over and over, so I played the crap out of that but much to my parents disapproval. And then Ever since then, like there was no stopping, like my dad he worked at a bank, But we wanted to get into [unclear], like he brought home a computer [unclear] that way. So I, I naturally installed video games like lion, King, Aladdin, and all those things that some guy gave it to me at a book fair. So I was very much interested in video games that way. What was a, I think the turning point for me was I played Pokemon. But I played it at an emulator. Not like in the physical device, I didn't even know it was meant to be played on a physical device. I played it on a computer, so but you can't catch all 151 unless you trade with other people on the physical device. So I only got like 135, and no idea how to get the rest, there was no internet. And then, and then, my parents announced to me that they'r
